Something you don't hear from a CA nowadays, at the end of a programme, is "such and such is currently appearing in This thing at this venue". It would normally have been used at the end of a programme, like Blankety Blank, or the Generation Game, where a star taking part in it was also currently appearing in, say, a pantomime somewhere else. These announcements were commonly used on the BBC.
Something you don't hear from a CA nowadays, at the end of a programme, is "such and such is currently appearing in This thing at this venue". It would normally have been used at the end of a programme, like Blankety Blank, or the Generation Game, where a star taking part in it was also currently appearing in, say, a pantomime somewhere else. These announcements were commonly used on the BBC.
On ITV programmes these were put on as part of the credits or simply mentioned as part of speaking to the people in question as part of the programme.
What benefit came from plugging somebody's show like that? Was it in lieu of part of their payment, or was it advertising for the theatre? Surely the latter would've been dodgy territory for the BBC.
You do sometimes see "appears by kind permission of" in the credits these days where somebody is contracted exclusively elsewhere but they have been allowed to take part in something else
You do sometimes see "appears by kind permission of" in the credits these days where somebody is contracted exclusively elsewhere but they have been allowed to take part in something else
Is this similar to how whenever one of French and Saunders appears in something the credits read something like 'Dawn French supplied by Saunders and French productions' (which I think is what it said in the credits to the Vicar of Dibley)?
Perhaps Tony Currie could answer that question. However, in reference to the comment about how it was done on ITV, that was the same on the BBC.
The "so-and-so is currently appearing in 'Jack and the Beanstalk' at the Hippodrome Motherwell" end credit was obligatory when an artiste under exclusive contract was permitted to make a TV appearance, and was an element of the original collective agreements that the BBC had with the theatres. Such agreements no longer exist.
"Hello again" was sloppy lazy writing on the part of in-vision continuity announcers. Not a phrase I ever used. (At this point at least four trolls will spend the next 48 hours pouring through old N1500 tapes of my junctions in order to prove me wrong....)
