I'm sorry PJ but I cannot allow you to diss Ch5, I won't stand for it. OK, so they lack substance, but without them I would be bereft of Prisoner! So please desist, or I shall come round to your house and add orange food colouring to all your foodstuffs and beverages!!
Night Fever?
Oh, come on. Suggs makes up for the dire singing talents...
Russell Grant's Postcards. What a wonderful programme, I love it to bits. Russell is always spot on with his predictions. He predicted that I would find love this year and that it was a good itme to settle old scores and bury the past. I phoned up my ex-girlfriend and said I wanted to get back with her. We met up and had a really great time. After our candle-lit dinner I killed her and buried her body in my garden.
Family Affairs is brilliant. It's nearest you can get to a piece of shit without honking. I laughed for weeks when the Hearts died. And Maggie burning to death in her car made me roll up. I would like to see Declan, Yasmin and Josh in a menage a trois. This would help spice it up a bit and would also be tackling the issue of three-in-bed romps which are always glossed over in soaps.
Channel 5 was also the first company to introduce standing news readers. Although I admit Live TV had broken some ground with the News Bunny.
>without them I would be bereft of Prisoner!
Interestingly, i was having a discussion with one of my friends, who loves Prisoner (and Neighbours and Sons and Daughters - He's a little strange like that), so i have know problem with that - quite the opposite in fact.
I just wonder about the programmes Channel 5 actually make themselves.
And i'm still waiting for them to show the rest of Twin Peaks...
>Family Affairs is brilliant. It's nearest you can get to a piece of shit without honking. I laughed for weeks when the Hearts died.
That was the only episode i've actually really watch - i found it hilerious as well. The fact the candle had to drop to the floor before the boat went up - classic
I actually missed that one. i was onl holiday, came back and it had all changed. and nobody seemed to have noticed, either.
>I was just wondering: can anyone think of a good, homemade programme that has appeared on C5? I don't just mean an average show, which passes the time, but an actual GOOD show.
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>Surely it can't be that hard, can it?
The comedy store was good - Jack Docherty was occasionally good. Their News and Sport on a Sunday is quite good.
the thing is both channel 4 & 5 don't make there own programs infact they don't even make their own news it's made by ITN
>the thing is both channel 4 & 5 don't make their own programs infact they don't even make their own news it's made by ITN.
That is common in Television today. Sky One's "own programmes" are made by independent production companies (even though they slap a 'Sky One Production' caption at the end after the LWT (or whatever) caption).
Carlton and Meridian didn't make their own programmes either (apart from Meridian News) until they became part of bigger media groups.
You could also argue that Network Programmes are not made by ITV, but by ITV companies, which are different.
Channel Four does make two programmes itself, though - that programme at 7.55 (Used to be Comment) and Right to Reply.
It would seem silly for Channel 4 and 5 to waste money on overheads associated with running their own news organisations. ITN was the only choice for c4 in 1982 and Channel 5 obviously thought they'd do the best job. Of course, to give Channels 4 and 5 distinctive news services, they do have seperate newsrooms and studios from ITN News for ITV. Also note that the individual station branding is more apparent on c4&5 than on ITV, where ITN captions still appear a great deal.
>>the thing is both channel 4 & 5 don't make their own programs infact they don't even make their own news it's made by ITN.
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>Channel Four does make two programmes itself, though - that programme at 7.55 (Used to be Comment) and Right to Reply.
I always thought that Channel 4 wasn't allowed to make it's own shows (or at least that's what my media teacher told me in college, but that was an awful awful course) with the stuff like T4 and possibly the 7.55 slot coming under continuity/presentation. Like I said it was a crappy media A-level course so it's probably wrong. As for C5, I suppose all thier "own" shows come under the Pearson brandings.
>It would seem silly for Channel 4 and 5 to waste money on overheads associated with running their own news organisations. ITN was the only choice for c4 in 1982 and Channel 5 obviously thought they'd do the best job. Of course, to give Channels 4 and 5 distinctive news services, they do have seperate newsrooms and studios from ITN News for ITV. Also note that the individual station branding is more apparent on c4&5 than on ITV, where ITN captions still appear a great deal.
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I'd guess that's to do with the way ITV news has been ITN news all these years, it's only in the last relaunch that the ITV name came into it.
One thing about the distinctive services on all channels is that if something happened in a far off country on Channel 5 it'd have to be covered from London using local TV pictures or suchlike while ITN would have a correspondent out there covering it for ITV and possibly the forthcoming 24 channel - they don't spread out resourses so despite the vastness of ITN, 5 News is still very low budget. To do with the contract I guess, but if say Sky News or Reuters had the contract I'm sure they'd just have seperate C5 corresponents for the main things (politics etc) and just use thier own reports from elsewhere for everything else.
>One thing about the distinctive services on all channels is that if something happened in a far off country on Channel 5 it'd have to be covered from London using local TV
Yeah, small operations like C5 News make use of wire news quite a lot. ITV News programmes make a point of saying so-and-so "at ITN" reports if the reporter is not on location. Dermott Murnaghan explained this to a group of us a number of years ago when he came back to talk to our current affairs society at school (he was a former pupil).
anyone see that naked jungle on channel 5 in the week what were YOUR views?
One thing I did see on 5 News once was during the film reviews they forgot to bleep out f-words from a clip of (I think it was) East Is East. Afterwards Rob Butler looked slightly embarresed but they just carried on as if nothing had happened..
Why does the Daily Mail hate C5 so much? It's not that bad.
prisoner is on C5?
when?