Smtv Live reunion

If I recall correctly he said no programme was near as good. Dare I suggest he couldn't bring himself to admit that his Saturday morning competition Dick & Dom came close.

Watching it this evening I enjoyed the look back. It was good that they openly admitted that at first it wasn't successful. Not sure how Scarlett really fitted in as a talking head though.

I think she was meant to be there as a fan who grew up watching the show but every anecdote seemed to revolve around how ill informed she was.

Or a couple of the others, who were kids at the time the show was on and only watched it.

Compared to Ben Ward, Gez Foster and Dean Wilkinson who had about 15 seconds of screen time despite being responsible for writing most of the most popular content. The former two of which were fresh from Live & Kicking when they joined SM:TV.

Dick and Dom wasn't my cup of tea but I can appreciate they had a popular, well made show that was funny and took risks. However taking everything into account does ut hold a torch to SMTV as a sat morning show? I always felt Da Bungalow was quite niche.

Yes that looked really odd. Dean and Gez didn't even get to speak! David Staite hardly featured either. I guess they filmed a lot with all the different people and only had so much time to edit it together. I wonder if they did anything with Conor McAnally or if he was unavailable in America - would have been intrerested in his thoughts as he created the shows with Ant and Dec and was exec producer from start to finish.

It occurred to me watching the documentary that Chums was effectively a new version of Trevor & Simon's Laundrette. Quite a lot of Ant & Dec's more successful work is very derivative when you think about it, isn't it.

Was reponsible for Ant & Dec Unzipped as well (did he have something to do with the Ant & Dec show as well? All done through Zenith), a bit disapointed there were no clips from that too seeing as it was their previous TV work before SM:TV. I imagine Ant & Dec bought the rights to those shows when Zenith collapsed alongside SM:TV and Byker Grove (and there were a couple of clips of that in the documentry), but I could be wrong.

Ouch.

Chums was created by Conor McAnally and Steve Pinhay I seem to remember reading on Satkids.

Yeah he started producing for them from series 2 of The Ant and Dec Show after the first series, in their words, wasn't one bit funny. David Walliams was one of the writers on the second series and used to write himself into sketches.

Cat's doing a show for Radio 2 on 2nd January in the old Graham Norton slot (who has left for Virgin Radio) and one of the guests is Peter Kay, who hasn't been on TV or radio since 2017 other than the brief clip he did for The Big Night In earlier this year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qyc5

Perhaps - but I doubt the parade of presenters who tried to fill their shoes on SM:TV would agree it was quite as simple as that.

Unlike Live & Kicking who managed to strike gold twice... in fact you could argue the Zoe & Jamie era was more successful than the Andi & Emma one.