A nice choice, quite a natural presenter/comedian who doesn't work too hard to drive the laughs in, in a similar tone to Denis Norden who presented with a very relaxed manor.
It'll be interested to say how they go ahead with the new it'll be alright on the night, as I'm sure that towards the end of the Denis Norden episodes, they were shot either behind the scenes of TV, or at various other places on location rather than being shot in front of a studio audience like Tarrant on TV, etc.
I do hope that with the return of It'll be alright on the night, that they will do away with TV's Naughtiest Blunders, most are not that risque, and the ones that are turn out to be bloopers from the recordings of Bottom.
A nice choice, quite a natural presenter/comedian who doesn't work too hard to drive the laughs in, in a similar tone to Denis Norden who presented with a very relaxed manor.
It'll be interested to say how they go ahead with the new it'll be alright on the night, as I'm sure that towards the end of the Denis Norden episodes, they were shot either behind the scenes of TV, or at various other places on location rather than being shot in front of a studio audience like Tarrant on TV, etc.
Indeed, a few editions were filmed on-location, as follows.
Alright on the Night:
Utterly Worst - unknown location
Cockup Trip - Great Cockup
21 Years Of Alright on the Night - "Bermuda Triangle" which, in reality, was the south of France
AOTN 11 - Theatre Royal, Haymarket
Laughter Files:
LF 4 - around various parts of the LWT building
LF 5 - EasyEverything internet cafe
A few of Denis's ITV specials were also filmed on-location, around the same time (Laughter by Royal Command, A Right Royal Song and Dance, And The Winner Is, Laughter of a Lifetime, 30 Years of Laughter) and, most notably, the series he did for LWT in 1990, Pick of the Pilots.
Cockup Trip and LF 5 were both played back to a studio audience prior to transmission as these have a laughter track on the links as well as on the clips. I believe that when LF 5 was first transmitted, ITV weren't too happy with the look of it and both AOTN and the Laughter Files reverted to being studio-based thereafter. Some of these editions were recorded away from London, at Manchester and Northam.
An uncharacteristically good choice for ITV. I was expecting them to go for one of the current omnipresent crop of trendy but excruciating suspects like Vernon Kay, Holly Willoughby, Fearne Cotton or Stephen Mulhern, who would no doubt have rendered the programme unwatchable.
Lovely - I can watch the programme without wanting to punch the TV.
then I remembered who the co-owner of Talkback Productions along with Smith and Jones was back in the early 90's, and who the current director of programmes at ITV is these days -
The main stumbling block here would be the cost of the repeat fees to the artists featured in the clips (or their estates, if they have passed on).
Showing the clips is the easy bit - they have to be licensed for use in the show, and that takes a lot of hard work.
Not only did the original series run to 20 editions over 29 years, there were the various specials as well, not to mention the numerous repeats over the years. The cost would simply be too great to repeat Alright on the Night right from the start. And of course Denis Norden, as AOTN's original presenter, would also have to be paid a fee for every repeat showing, plus the various clips that he managed to appear in during its run.
