Category: British
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Loadsaclippings
With its third series, Saturday Live moved nights and changed its name. Thus, Friday Night Live was heavily trailed on TV, but seemed to engage the newspapers much less than the previous two runs. So, for the most part, it was little box bits like this one, from the Aberdeen Press And Journal on the…
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Oops Bit Of Policlips
The second series of Saturday Live, which began on the 7th February 1987, saw a few changes. There was a new set, a new time slot, and Ben Elton became the permanent host. To mark the beginning of this new series, this gorgeous ad appeared in an edition of The Stage. The day before the…
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Some Dangerous Clippings I Trust You’ll Agree
A few weeks before Saturday Live went on air (and year after the pilot), The Stage was reporting some interesting things about it, not least the fact that Jasper Carrott was going to be a regular member of the cast. In the end, he only appeared in episode seven. Two days before the series proper…
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Waiting For Waiting For Godot
Ever since the first episode of Bottom came to an end, way back in 1991, and the continuity announcer told us that Rik and Ade were appearing in a production of Waiting For Godot, I’ve indelibly linked the two things together in my mind. For a long time, little information was to be found about…
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There’s Nothing To Worry About
Given that yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the first broadcast of There’s Nothing To Worry About, here’s that first show. And here’s an article from The Stage on the 8th July 1982 that announces the regional show being transferred to the network and reworked into a longer series that was later renamed Alfresco.
