The reason I called this strand 'The show...' is that several times I tried to start a strand called just 'OTT@ and they were all rejected. Was that a script thing, Rob?
Whoops! That was a typo.
It probably didn't like the @ symbol... sorry!
But the rejected message was identical to the first one here, except for the title. What was all that about?
Border Television banned it, but eventually succumbed.
At the time, the Radio Times billed Not the Nine O'clock News at NOTT (NOT Thenineo'clocknews) "At last, the adult version of Play Away"
Yes, the forum code won't accept the @ symbol in the title...
Yes, but I didn't put one in the title when it rejected it.
so you tried to call it "OTT" and it was rejected?
This is easily the most fascinating thread on this forum. Come on, Jon, don't leave us in suspense - did it reject "OTT" without the "@"?
Yes, that's what happened when I tried it on 2 different PCs. Almost as if the forum won't accept a strand called 'OTT'.
Well... You're right. Didn't work for me either. Obviously another of Rob's clever mechanisms to stop us finding fake OTT recording transcripts.
Oh that's because it thinks 'OTT' is too short to be a subject title.... has to be more than 3 letters.
Ah.
I quite liked it at the time.
But then, I was..umm.. about 12 years old when it was on. I might well enjoy 11 O Clock Show these days, under the same circumstances.
Or praps not.
I don't remember that much about it. Tiswas seemed more anarchic to me as a 12 year old, OTT seemed to be pre-scripted anarchism with swearing and *possibly* some bare breasts so keep watching folks.
Alexei Sayle did a Simon Fierce-type routine most weeks, which was incomprehensible/frightening/noisy/delete where applicable. I think Bob Godfrey contributed rude animated interludes. The show's presenters, apart from Tarrant, Henry, Carolgees and Gorman, were Helen Atkinson Wood from Radio Active and an American actress called Colette Hiller, who was fired after the very first programme.
Anyway, I got tired of it after about three weeks, and I was eleven. So who else watched it, I can't imagine.
Apparently, Angus Deayton was one of the show's writers, though. Apparently.