[RDJ]

An excerpt of ITN live coverage of the September 11th 2001 attacks:

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I distinctly remember ITN knocking it out of the park with the live coverage compared to other terrestrial offerings. Of course there was the infamous moment of Kirsty talking to her husband on the phone on air which was how she found out that he was safe.

There's other small excerpts on the same channel, including at 6pm when Trevor McDonald joined Kirsty for a double header, something Trevor won't have done for just shy of 10 years.

[lookoutwales]

A new YT channel for TVS archive fans...ahem.

www.youtube.com 

YouTube - Made in Maidstone
Programmes made in Maidstone (with a few produced in Dover, Gillingham and Southampton)
  Source: www.youtube.com

[VMPhil]

It's almost 18 years ago since I saw this breakdown and it was just as I remembered. On the first Saturday Showdown Extra on the launch day of the CITV channel, suddenly the audio cuts out. They are clearly aware of it but try to carry on with the show, before cutting to a slide. Then, I think it was a few minutes later but edited down in this upload, they come back and Holly and Stephen pretend that the audio still isn't working, much to the panic of the production team…

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[lookoutwales]

From the Made in Maidstone channel...the UK pilot for Finders Keepers, hosted by Andrew O'Connor and recorded on the set of the original Nickelodeon US version.

www.youtube.com 

N.B. On further inspection, this appears to be the set for the syndicated version in Los Angeles (Nickelodeon recorded their version - at the studios of a local PBS affiliate in Philadelphia)

[Neil Jones]

I was going to say, the syndicated version is more contained than the Nickelodeon show.

But again, another example of a format more successful abroad than it was in its home country. We got five years out of that, it didn't last more than a year on Nickelodeon, and and it was all over in less than two years.

[James2001]

Quite a long delay between the pilot and the first series as well- 3 years.

[lookoutwales]

And even with Andrew taking Neil's place (and that constant banter with the camera ops), it seems a little more quaint and restrained than what the UK version would become.

[Neil Jones]

Even the original Nicklodeon show was painfully slow, just look how half-arsed the "room raids" are:
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Perhaps we improved on it when STV gold hold of it, by just going ape crazy at every opportunity about, well everything basically. it was all about the mess, the destruction, the chaos... our version was exhausting to watch even as an adult all these years later never mind as a kid!

The TVS episodes (first year particularly) is closer to the US show.

[James2001]

Not sure whether the TVS/STV thing meant much in terms of how decisions were made in the show's production, as it was still made by the same production team in the same studio (apart from the final season when it moved to Glasgow), in fact season 3 has a 1992 copyright which means it was made in a TVS studio with TV staff while TVS were still on air.

All the TVS-produced CITV shows that continued after 1993 moved to STV, I think! Seems strange they were making so much network output from Maidstone as a result which is virtually as far from Scotland as you can get.

[Larry the Loafer]

All the TVS-produced CITV shows that continued after 1993 moved to STV, I think! Seems strange they were making so much network output from Maidstone as a result which is virtually as far from Scotland as you can get.

IIRC Nick Pickard, who was in charge of children's programming at TVS, jumped ship to Scottish and effectively saved the likes of Finders Keepers and Art Attack by recommissioning them as STV shows.