Apparently there was a clip of Jamie Theakston saying "It was this show where you could like, swap things. And it had Noel Edmonds on it, and Keith Chegwin. Fantastic." but they must have cut it out. Pity.
>Apparently there was a clip of Jamie Theakston saying "It was this show where you could like, swap things. And it had Noel Edmonds on it, and Keith Chegwin. Fantastic." but they must have cut it out. Pity.
Pity they couldn't cut out Jamie Theakston instead. The bloke's a twat !
No Julie Burchill !!
Is this a record !!
Strange woman, that Fiona Allen!
have we now reached the point where Jamie Theakston was born?
I once saw him in a Camden bar looking very lonely. I laughed in his face, walked away and am proud of that.
>have we now reached the point where Jamie Theakston was born?
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>I once saw him in a Camden bar looking very lonely. I laughed in his face, walked away and am proud of that.
Nice one !!
>have we now reached the point where Jamie >Theakston was born?
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I read somewhere (could have been this weeks Radio Times, but I can't find the bit in question now) that Mr Theakston is 28 years old.
Which, by my reckoning, would give him some vague recollections of TV from 76 at the very earliest, if he was born in 72, 73.
28 years old. etc.
Anyone know if the BBC are going to do an "I love 1980's" ???? follow up to this series?
I believe they have one planned - i read it in some magazine.
What a pity that it didn't conform to the usual practice of featuring clips from public information films made that year. They could have had the infamous frisbee/substation one, and then a clip of Theakston saying "I mean, if it went in there, we just had to leave it!!!!!!!!!!"
I love 1980: Featuring Brittany Spears, Dahpne and Celeste, that kid from Star Wars, etc..
(Obviously, i would have them discusing things made in 1980 - but i wasn't born then, so i wouldn't know, sorry.)
Isn't it about time we had a 'Rock and Roll Years' covering the 90s (I think they went up to 1989 last time.) Actually how about a repeat of the whole thing?
>Isn't it about time we had a 'Rock and Roll Years' covering the 90s (I think they went up to 1989 last time.) Actually how about a repeat of the whole thing?
The makers of I Love The 70s should be forced at gunpoint to watch The Rock & Roll Years. Nothing but news footage, top music and unobtrusive captioning. Best of all no terrible punditry.
Why hasn't it all been repeated since 1994?
'Rock and Roll Years' was screened to death and I'm sure it'll come around again. Probably on UK Play or something.
'I Love 1980s' is in planning. Radio Times featured a request for readers' video footage in the latest issue.
I just find it incredibly irritating, with Bob Godfrey's contribution being the most interesting idea by some distance. On the plus side it has also given Stuart Maconie the chance to be less po-faced than he was on the Blur South Bank Show last year.
It seems to be from the makers of 'Sounds Of The 60s-80s', but I haven't compared credits. The structure of the 'next week' bit is very similar.
That final jingle is horrible though. They simply *must* drop that!
>'Rock and Roll Years' was screened to death and I'm sure it'll come around again. Probably on UK Play or something.
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>'I Love 1980s' is in planning. Radio Times featured a request for readers' video footage in the latest issue.
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>I just find it incredibly irritating, with Bob Godfrey's contribution being the most interesting idea by some distance. On the plus side it has also given Stuart Maconie the chance to be less po-faced than he was on the Blur South Bank Show last year.
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>It seems to be from the makers of 'Sounds Of The 60s-80s', but I haven't compared credits. The structure of the 'next week' bit is very similar.
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>That final jingle is horrible though. They simply *must* drop that!
It's like a old Pepsi advert isn't it!
Perhaps not appropriate for Edit News, but still...
Missed IL76, but did catch the last third of MOT70s. Now, this could just be the paranoid delusions of a bitter old Blue, but wasn't there a bit more to the talking-head segments around the Everton-Liverpool FA Cup semi-final when this was originally shown? I definitely remember Emlyn Hughes and Ray Clemence basically admitting that EFC were worthy of victory on the day, that Hamilton's late 'goal' should've stood, etc.
I realise that this sounds deeply pathetic (and I accept that the original shows - from '95 or so? - are perhaps 5 minutes longer than the slot afforded them in the IL7x strand), but this is one of those incidents of sporting injustice that we Goodison gloom-mongers cling to as evidence of how hard done by we've been over the years. On Saturday's show, even the scant consolation of a couple of Reds confirming what every Evertonian has known for 23 years was cut down to Clemence's jokey "well, of course it wasn't a goal!"
Of course, I might be getting mixed up with a completely different programme. Either way, apologies for infecting this thread with footy-talk. Delete at will, Corpses.
The 80s were terrible, and should not be celebrated.
Some aspects of them were OK.
Ish.
I was not impressed at the harsh treatment of the Brotherhood of Man at all.
Were ABBA the original 2 men, 2 woman group? Did 'Save Your Kisses For Me' sound remotely like 'Waterloo' or any other ABBA song?
Did 'Save Your Kisses For Me' sell more records than 'Waterloo'? Yes.
I Love the 80s is in production, I think they have to have them ready for January or something. I was talking to someone who made one of the 70s ones and he told me BBC2 completely ballsed up the sitcoms shown before the docs- also saying that just running a Goodies from each year was on the cards at one point but was turned down. As was the idea of lots of concerts from the years concerned. Seems BBC2 are less keen on the theme night element and more interested in the actual doc dragging over the Top Ten crowds from C4.
"have we now reached the point where Jamie Theakston was born?"
Wouldn't it be great if time started running backwards, like it does in the sci-fi nivel "Counter Clock World" by Philip K.Dick, and so Jamie Theakston would get younger and yuounger, and we could look forward to him going through a reverse birth process and reverting to separate sperm and ovum, no?
Would he still get abuse from 'The Face' for doing it? If so, yes please!
I discovered the other day that Theakston is 29, and so age wise has almost as much right to talk about the 70s as I do. He's still an arse though. And he wears tank tops.
He was better on the radio.
He's utterly shite on the radio.
That loosly strung together, sorry excuse for a radio show that he does/did, provokes violence in me.
Yet still better than the TV appearances.