The Saturday TV revival moves to mornings
Following the recent surge in 70s and 80s Saturday Night telly revivals, as previously discussed here and here, it seems that the bigwigs in TV Land are now turning their attention to the return of Saturday morning classics.
Recently the BBC announced its plans for a one-off Christmas edition of Swap Shop with Noel Edmunds, John Craven, Cheggers and former Mrs Cheggers reuniting to take a nostalgic look back at the best of Saturday morning TV over the years.
And today, ITV are trumpeting a return next year for TISWAS. Timed to mark the 30th anniversary of Tiswas becoming a national programme (how old does that make you feel!), it will again be reuniting the original team including Chris "This is what they want" Tarrant, Sally "We sing the song" James, Lenny "Wuwal Wetweats" Henry, Bob (erm...) Carolgees and, yes, Spit the Dog (exactly how would one correctly spell "Hooooocckkkk spuuffffff").
While I can't exactly see the likes of Motormouth and Number 73 making similar reappearances on our screens in the near future, the two planned revivals do seem to demonstrate that TV execs appreciate there's a general fondness amongst viewers for Saturday morning kids telly. Which begs a re-asking of the question now regulary posed - how come our only current Saturday morning viewing choice is between James Martin and Anthony Worrell-ruddy-Thompson?
Saturday mornings are a time for laughs, cartoons, kids swearing over the phone at pop bands and the odd bit of gung. Strangely enough, I don't want to be watching someone cooking a full lamb roast dinner at 9.30 in the morning.
The sooner the telly execs get back to creating a new winning Saturday morning kids format the better. Maybe a quick look through the pages of http://www.saturdaymornings.co.uk/ may just provide the necessary inspiration!
Take a look through yourself - you'll be surprised how many of these shows you'd previously forgotten about (Parallel 9 anyone?). Given the choice, which would you put front of the queue for a revival? Have your say now in the latest tellytunes poll.
~~steve~~
www.tellytunes.com
posted by ~~steve~~ at
2:10 pm
Recently the BBC announced its plans for a one-off Christmas edition of Swap Shop with Noel Edmunds, John Craven, Cheggers and former Mrs Cheggers reuniting to take a nostalgic look back at the best of Saturday morning TV over the years.
And today, ITV are trumpeting a return next year for TISWAS. Timed to mark the 30th anniversary of Tiswas becoming a national programme (how old does that make you feel!), it will again be reuniting the original team including Chris "This is what they want" Tarrant, Sally "We sing the song" James, Lenny "Wuwal Wetweats" Henry, Bob (erm...) Carolgees and, yes, Spit the Dog (exactly how would one correctly spell "Hooooocckkkk spuuffffff").While I can't exactly see the likes of Motormouth and Number 73 making similar reappearances on our screens in the near future, the two planned revivals do seem to demonstrate that TV execs appreciate there's a general fondness amongst viewers for Saturday morning kids telly. Which begs a re-asking of the question now regulary posed - how come our only current Saturday morning viewing choice is between James Martin and Anthony Worrell-ruddy-Thompson?
Saturday mornings are a time for laughs, cartoons, kids swearing over the phone at pop bands and the odd bit of gung. Strangely enough, I don't want to be watching someone cooking a full lamb roast dinner at 9.30 in the morning.
The sooner the telly execs get back to creating a new winning Saturday morning kids format the better. Maybe a quick look through the pages of http://www.saturdaymornings.co.uk/ may just provide the necessary inspiration!
Take a look through yourself - you'll be surprised how many of these shows you'd previously forgotten about (Parallel 9 anyone?). Given the choice, which would you put front of the queue for a revival? Have your say now in the latest tellytunes poll.
~~steve~~
www.tellytunes.com
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