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If you can call the original show a "format", it was more like "we've been given a show, what the hell do we do with it now?"
Haha yeah, I think the issue was that they only pitched CD:UK to ITV but Nigel Pickard wanted them to do a kids show before it, hence SM:TV. So originally it a bit of an afterthought and all about being a warm up to CD:UK and talking about the guests on that, going in dressing rooms etc. Ironically SM:TV was the one that became the big show and really got Ant and Dec's presenting career off to a glittering start. I wonder how things would have turned out for them if they'd just done a TOTP style show called CD:UK.
SM:TV Live to return for one off special?
And what a first episode it was 
It morphed into a totally different format really, didn't it?
It morphed into a totally different format really, didn't it?
If you can call the original show a "format", it was more like "we've been given a show, what the hell do we do with it now?"
Haha yeah, I think the issue was that they only pitched CD:UK to ITV but Nigel Pickard wanted them to do a kids show before it, hence SM:TV. So originally it a bit of an afterthought and all about being a warm up to CD:UK and talking about the guests on that, going in dressing rooms etc. Ironically SM:TV was the one that became the big show and really got Ant and Dec's presenting career off to a glittering start. I wonder how things would have turned out for them if they'd just done a TOTP style show called CD:UK.