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'Morecambe And Wise' moved from the BBC to ITV after 1977. 'It Takes A Worried Man' - early 80s sitcom by and starring Peter Tilbury - had its first two series on ITV, produced by Thames Television, its third series was on Channel 4. Similar to 'Is It Legal', 90s sitcom about solicitors, which also ...

But given that it's basically illustrating a soundtrack, it's not as if it could go that far off from what's already there, and as there isn't a teleplay available where we could compare camera moves and cuts and the like, any recreation is always going to be a partial compromise. Really? I thought...

It's being released in both black and white and colour, as I understand it, much like Power of the Daleks was, the only difference being you had to get the Blu-ray to get a colour version of the latter, whereas apparently both are intended to be available on each format. My understanding of The Macr...

My understanding is that only two episodes of Hi-De-Hi on DVD were edited. Desire In The Mickey Mouse Grotto, Series 1 Episode 1, is, so I'm informed, missing about two and a half minutes' worth of Marty Storm singing a song. On With The Motley, Series 2 Episode 4, is missing about 34 seconds. The o...

Doctor Who was created as a Science Fiction Programme for the BBC Drama Department in 1963. All the paperwork, and notes from Sydney Newman speak of how it must be kept Science Fiction. The average person at the time may not have been able to go into great detail about it, but everyone knew the ess...

Is there a broadcast date known for this yet?

'Pinwright's Progress' was first broadcast fortnightly from 29 November 1946 to 16 May 1947. The Radio Times Comedy Guide describes it as "British television's first authentic half-hour comedy series". Don't know whether any other country got there before though.

ISTR that the primary reason for so many of the "Earthbound" stories in the 70's was budget-led. It was much easier to set stories on present day Earth, which pleased the bean-counters. I suppose the same argument can be used for the modern era, which might help explain why there are more periphera...

These would be the Earth-bound/orientated stories based mostly in the UNIT era and eventually abandoned as being ultimately quite dull... But which lasted in one form or another for several years. Didn't entirely fade out until the mid 1970s, and even after that most companions joined the Doctor vo...

For start the part-time companion thing just doesn't interest me... Contrast Clara with Ian and Barbara. Ian and Barbara's first encounter with the Doctor and their subsequent travels had the real feeling of people uprooted from their lives and being exposed to something new and almost impossibly d...

I was referring to the original Ninth Doctor. Cornell was the big cheese for the Shalka Doctor, and his planned arcs etc. The webcasts, novels and the comics would all have had to follow his ideas. Had the television show with Davies not emerged when it did, Doctor Who would have been Paul Cornell'...

And this man was very nearly the showrunner? No, not as far as I'm aware. Don't think he was ever in the running. Without any prior experience of running a programme, there's no evidence that he would have been a likely candidate. However, Doctor Who's ratings appear to be steadily falling. Of cour...

As stated earlier, many people merely go along with what the media tells them, and the media said that this was a major hit, whereas the reality in 2005 was somewhat different. The hype machine and gushing and fawning went into overdrive, and today it's taken as gospel that Davies' relaunch in 2005...

There was nothing wrong with the ratings for the old series, Sci-Fi TV was never a massive audience puller, but the ratings for the old series were very good considering, and according to Phillip Hinchcliffe, in a recent interview, the bosses were more than happy with it's performance, as Hinchclif...

The so-called deeper and more emotional aspect of Nu-Who, seems to consist of The Doctor's loneliness and the companion having family problems or the loss of a family member, not much else really, Only if you concentrate solely on the material that was recorded about nine or ten years ago, and even...

It's being denied a repeat because the BBC don't think it's good enough - that seems to be the truth of it As was revealed on Facebook it was planned for a repeat in 1999, after having had some judicious editing done. So 15 years ago it was considered good enough, the more awkwardly of-their-time m...

Here's a short feature and interview with him from American television. Posted by the copyright holder, I think, so there shouldn't be any problems putting a link in here for it. I'll leave it to the mods anyway.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=9467049

Kate Barnes, the Executive Producer at Microsoft's EMEA TV, denied it was happening about a month ago, and said they had no plans to do any Blake's 7.

http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/blakes-7/27 ... ox-rumours

I think that may be being a little unfair. I know Robin can sometimes get somewhat enthusiastic on some of the political issues exemplified in popular culture, but I wouldn't dismiss all of his analysis of it out of hand. If nothing else, it's at least interesting, to me anyway. There probably is a ...

The BBC has announced it's going to stop credit-squeezing its programmes after viewer complaints, and try other systems.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-07- ... r-backlash

It was definitely shown around the teatime slot on a weekday, both on its original broadcast in 1979 and on its repeat, which I think was in 1981.

The three Troughton episodes that exist as 35mm film recordings of 625 video are probably the best-quality 60s DW we've got, and after cleanup and VidFIRE get us as close to the original VT look as it's ever likely to be possible to get. There are more than three, I think. Wheel in Space 6, Dominat...

As well as The Two Ninnies, is it true that NTNOCN did another sketch savaging The Two Ronnies that included the line "I write material under a well-publicized pseudonym"? That was from a deleted section of the same sketch. Although they did also do another Two Ronnies parody, The Three Ronnies, wi...

Here's a review which has some comparison screen grabs.

http://www.tellytechblog.com/2013/05/do ... n-dvd.html

The OED 's first example is from the FidoNews bulletin board in 1989. Not sure where Mike's getting his information from. I can't remember where I heard it, but here's a similar/better example: 1917 letter to Winston Churchill uses 'OMG' If you'd used 'OMG' in any drama set before the 1990s, the de...

Indeed, because the characters in 'I, Claudius' wouldn't even have been speaking in English historically, so giving them dialogue in that language inevitably means it's effectively a translation, which can allow any kind of expression or figure of speech, as long as it conveys the intended meaning. ...

That doesn't alter the fact that they were written to be spoken with the pronunciation of the time, which is why some of Shakespeare's rhymes don't seem to work very well (or at all) to our ears. Pronounced as per Early Modern English, the words *do* rhyme. If it matters that a character in a TV dr...

Shakespeare's plays weren't intended to be written or staged as naturalistic recreations of their settings, so the parallels with most TV programmes aren't very strong there.

Shouldn't this be in the Current Television section, as it seems to be more about dramas written now?

I've heard, although don't watch it so couldn't confirm, that Downton Abbey has some very jarring anachronisms in its dialogue, whether terms or figures of speech.

Bit of news about further releases. The Moonbase, with animated episodes, is due out on 21 October and The Tenth Planet on 18 November.