Miles AND Milner
One of whom (Miles I think) is Richard Thomas the pianist from TMWRNJ, a cog in the machine of Cluub Z and musical director of too many shows to mention

>Miles AND Milner

Oops - sorry.

>One of whom (Miles I think) is Richard Thomas the pianist from TMWRNJ, a cog in the machine of Cluub Z and musical director of too many shows to mention

Blimey - I remember enjoying BND at the time. I liked that Rainer Hersch thing for Radio 4 that RT was involved with too.

Also, London Shouting (BBC2, 1996ish). Vehicle for the brilliant Alan Parker Urban Warrior. Not transmitted in Wales, so I didn't see it. Did I miss anything?

Paul Merton did a really funny pilot about 3 years ago, in which he kept asking questions. It was a pseudo scientific investigative show. Or am I dreaming?

I sort of remember that PM thing. But was it just a one off? My memory fails me.

'It's A Mad World World World World World' was great! Yes, it was a TV spin-off of 'And Now In Colour' and it should have got a series. Instead Wiliam van Dyk has been cruelly forgotten.

Eddie Izzard's Cow sit-com - overhyped immensely but, strangely, never got the series. Wonder why?

>I sort of remember that PM thing. But was it just a one off? My memory fails me.

Called "Does China Exist", ostensibly about the paranormal, transmitted December 97. Merton later claimed in an interview that it was so badly made that the editing took forever in order to merely make it transmittable.

I didn't rate London Shouting... but we've been through this before, no one cares. For the record, it had Barratt & Fielding doing their Orb parody Pod, it had Kevin Eldon in various guises, it had Munnery performing his brilliant pastiches of old 'Citizen Smith' scripts, almost as good as the originals, and it had some woman trying to take the piss out of Katie Puckrik, definitely not as good as the original.

For me, the wonder was that they bothered to make the pilot.

Barratt and Fielding's "Pod" - didn't they do a one-off show on Radio 1 a couple of years back???

Anyone remember 'You Are Here'? Now that was just plain odd.

"And Now In Colour" was apparently piloted twice. Once as a more-or-less direct copy of the radio show ('Post Office Tower' episode), with the original line-up and all the nice character comedy bits left in -- which we didn't get to see on the telly -- and then again as a tidied-up, but still quite good, conventional sketch package with the different cast and the daft new name -- which we did.

Where are they now? Tim "Firthie" Firth has just written "Border Cafe"; Michael Rutger is now Michael Marshall Smith (which, in fact, he was all along...); and William Vandyck is having his absence bemoaned here. Anyone know what happened to Tim Scott/de Jongh?

>Paul Merton did a really funny pilot about 3 years ago, in which he kept asking questions. It was a pseudo scientific investigative show. Or am I dreaming?

Yes It did happen but I can't remember what it was called i think it was "Does China Exist" where he kept asking a chinese man every 20 mins or so that question

Was the pilot of club zara watsit ever transmited.
I shouuld imagine that it would have been ammusing

>Was the pilot of club zara watsit ever transmited.
>I shouuld imagine that it would have been ammusing

According to the article on the SOTCAA site, it wasn't. On the subject of transmitted pilots, anyone know why Vic & Bob's Weekenders never made it to a series. It was shown, post-Big Night Out, as part of a series of pilots (Bunch of Laughs, possibly), and was great. Unlike the other pilots, if I remember correctly.

The only one to make it to a series was Frank Skinners disappointing Blue Heaven, I think.

Vic and Bob probably wern't popular enough to get away with a show as fantastically ridiculous as the weekenders - although they could now - Big night out didn't make them that 'big' did it?

BBC 2 showed a whole series of pilot episodes a few years ago. Only one program actually got made out of all them, which was Pulp Video(spit). The only other one that sticks in my mind is one about a man with talking pot plants, which I think had been a radio 4 series before. It was BAD. Another one was "Jock", about a lovable Scottish nationalist. Nick Hancock co-starred. There were probably others, but I can't remember them.

Nick Hancock co-*whatted*?

>Nick Hancock co-*whatted*?

He co-starred. Sorry, does the idea frighten you? I find it quite scary myself.