Saturday Night TV

[spider]

I didn't think it was possible for Saturday Night TV to get any worse than it currently is.

I was wrong!

[steve56]

Whose worse though him or Keith Lemon Edmunds was a piss taker really

[jimslip]

"Couldn't get worse?" Oh yes it could, OH YES IT COULD!!!

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[spider]

Whose worse though him or Keith Lemon?

That's like being asked to choose between dog shit and cat shit.

[Peter]

I tell you, they're going through Alan Partridges list of TV programme ideas and making them.

Remember how we laughed at 'Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubanks'. 'Arm Wrestling with Chas & Dave'?

One of them was 'Cooking in Prison'. What's Gordon Ramsays new show?

[spider]

Didn't Alan Partridge come up with Monkey Tennis?

[Peter]

Monkey Tennis, Inner City Sumo.... they'll all end up being made!

[spider]

From about 2.53 where the Commissioning Editor says "your programmes were appalling..........."

Don't you just wish someone at that level in the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 etc had the guts to say that to Noel Edmonds, Keith Lemon, Gordon Ramsay and co?

I could list about 50 of them if I thought about it. I don't want to though because it's too painful!

[Peter]

spider wrote:

> Don't you just wish someone at that level in the BBC, ITV,
> Channel 4 etc had the guts to say that to Noel Edmonds, Keith
> Lemon, Gordon Ramsay and co?

Yep, but in the end it comes down to one thing, it's cheap.

A decent drama will cost about half a million for one hour of airtime, if you start doing historical or futuristic, those costs shoot up. Much easier to get a third rate presenter and a couple of people chasing a ?10,000 prize on a quiz show. There's just not enough advertising money to go round to make quality tv on a regular basis.

[Arginald Valleywater]

Just watched a Morse I had recorded. Mate of mine knew the producers and siad Thaw and Watley got ?250k a show, add in some heavyweight guests, cinema quality soundtrack and ?2m was not underheard for a single episode.
Or you could have some Keith Lemon...my IQ is over 75 so not in his captive audience.
Can you imagine trying to re do I Claudius or Tinker Taylor with their casts??