SW
I'm assuming it's this - http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/2002-09-09#at-22.35
It was actually released on DVD at the time. Might be nice to dig the whole thing out for a repeat, mind.
A very interesting series, that, the other subjects were Asp, Frost, Whicker, Corbett and Roy Hudd.
It was actually released on DVD at the time. Might be nice to dig the whole thing out for a repeat, mind.
A very interesting series, that, the other subjects were Asp, Frost, Whicker, Corbett and Roy Hudd.
RW
I have the DVD, sadly now out of print and going for silly prices on Amazon.
Unbelievably, the last programme I watched on Saturday night was actually one of the Blankety Blank episodes I recorded a couple of years ago - utter hilarity from start to finish. I think he was so much more at home with this kind of thing than his chat show which I was never a great fan of. Good that Challenge will be repeating some Blankety Blanks on Sunday, and I wish they would buy up some more of his series.
I'll never forget how he once mentioned my website on his breakfast show about ten years ago - strange to think that I once influenced the content his programme in a very very insignificant and indirect way.
As far as celebrity deaths go, for me, this was always going to be the big one, the one I dreaded the most. I cannot think of any other famous person, past or present, whose passing would affect me in quite the same way.
Robert Williams
Founding member
The One Show has been good but I find myself just wanting to watch the programme these interview clips come from of him taking about the TV show!
I have the DVD, sadly now out of print and going for silly prices on Amazon.
Unbelievably, the last programme I watched on Saturday night was actually one of the Blankety Blank episodes I recorded a couple of years ago - utter hilarity from start to finish. I think he was so much more at home with this kind of thing than his chat show which I was never a great fan of. Good that Challenge will be repeating some Blankety Blanks on Sunday, and I wish they would buy up some more of his series.
I'll never forget how he once mentioned my website on his breakfast show about ten years ago - strange to think that I once influenced the content his programme in a very very insignificant and indirect way.
As far as celebrity deaths go, for me, this was always going to be the big one, the one I dreaded the most. I cannot think of any other famous person, past or present, whose passing would affect me in quite the same way.
SW
Cracking episode of The One Show, that, exactly what you want to see - all the guests and Alex and Uncle Matt pitched it just right. Tel would have loved it.
SW
And also The Wogan Years, of course - http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1997-10-24#at-22.20
It's a bloody good archive, anyway, given virtually everyone who was famous for a ten year period was on it, so it's no wonder they've plundered it so extensively. You're only scratching the surface too.
So, by my reckoning the original Wogan chat show has been rehashed into a highlights-type show 3 times, all with present-day contributions from Tel himself:
One on One – Terry Wogan (BBC One, 2002)
Wogan Now and Then (UK Gold, 2006)
Wogan: The Best Of (BBC Two, 2015)
One on One – Terry Wogan (BBC One, 2002)
Wogan Now and Then (UK Gold, 2006)
Wogan: The Best Of (BBC Two, 2015)
And also The Wogan Years, of course - http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1997-10-24#at-22.20
It's a bloody good archive, anyway, given virtually everyone who was famous for a ten year period was on it, so it's no wonder they've plundered it so extensively. You're only scratching the surface too.
IS
Possibly so it was nearer the tribute programme rather than having 4 minutes of other news beforehand? I think that would sound odder.
Listening to that bulletin, the newsreader was understandably a bit wobbly voiced right from the start. A horrible thing to have to announce
I figured that would be the case - the bit that confused me was the news being broken midway through the 9am news bulletin, rather than at the top.
Possibly so it was nearer the tribute programme rather than having 4 minutes of other news beforehand? I think that would sound odder.
Listening to that bulletin, the newsreader was understandably a bit wobbly voiced right from the start. A horrible thing to have to announce
BB
Sure - the only question is why the Radio 2 9am news bulletin did not lead with Wogan's passing instead putting it in as a piece of 'breaking news' half-way though the bulletin. You'd have thought that, if the news was embargoed till 9am, as appears to have been the case, Radio 2 would have led their 9am news bulletin with the story and advising that Mark Goodier was standing by with a tribute show once the rest of the bulletin was concluded. Other radio stations led with the Wogan story at 9am, so it was clearly an embargo - and it seems that the Radio 2 news service dropped the ball a little - unlike the actual Radio 2 presentation who did brilliantly with two tribute programmes put on at very short notice.
Yes it was slightly odd. Dropped into the middle of the bulletin and delivered in a less than delicate way.
Just listening to Chris Evans' show from this morning. The Goodier appearance promptly at 9am is explained. Shennan clearly knew before 8.15am, giving time to process everything. Evans let on that the network presenters were advised by Bob at 8.15am. Getting Goodier in to take over at 9am, following publication of the news, would have been logistically easy, if not psychologically so.
Sure - the only question is why the Radio 2 9am news bulletin did not lead with Wogan's passing instead putting it in as a piece of 'breaking news' half-way though the bulletin. You'd have thought that, if the news was embargoed till 9am, as appears to have been the case, Radio 2 would have led their 9am news bulletin with the story and advising that Mark Goodier was standing by with a tribute show once the rest of the bulletin was concluded. Other radio stations led with the Wogan story at 9am, so it was clearly an embargo - and it seems that the Radio 2 news service dropped the ball a little - unlike the actual Radio 2 presentation who did brilliantly with two tribute programmes put on at very short notice.
Yes it was slightly odd. Dropped into the middle of the bulletin and delivered in a less than delicate way.
SW
I was reminded while watching The One Show that one thing he did do for ITV was in 1987 when Eamonn Andrews died - in terms of stature and popularity, probably the nearest thing to Tel today, certainly I remember it being big news - and Tel introduced the tribute show to him for Thames the following evening. Indeed at the time it was suggested that if Tel was ever going to leave the Beeb, it might have been to replace Andrews at ITV.
Did he ever host anything for ITV?
I was reminded while watching The One Show that one thing he did do for ITV was in 1987 when Eamonn Andrews died - in terms of stature and popularity, probably the nearest thing to Tel today, certainly I remember it being big news - and Tel introduced the tribute show to him for Thames the following evening. Indeed at the time it was suggested that if Tel was ever going to leave the Beeb, it might have been to replace Andrews at ITV.
HC
He also did 'Lunchtime With Wogan' for ATV in the earlier 70's. Whether it was networked, or a purly regional show, I'm not sure.