[lookoutwales]

Mr Gatward calls a TVS staff meeting on-tape...

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...and he needs to talk about Mary.

[VMPhil]

Yesterday was the anniversary of the launch of Channel 5 and I stumbled across this archived version of Andrew Wiseman's website, from a month before the launch. I was interested by the "example schedule" section which republishes a "leaked schedule" from before launch. Was "Holy Cow with Simon Mayo" actually a show or is that just someone at C5's example of what they could be doing, a la Alan Partridge recording ideas into his dictaphone...

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Channel Five
Channel Five is the UK's newest terrestrial television station, due to lau…
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[lookoutwales]

Whittle was almost an Everybody’s Equal remake in name too, according to a Mr T. Vine.

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[James2001]

More from Made in Maidstone- an episode of Get Fresh. From what Wikipedia says, the only one made by TVS.

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[Stooky Bill]

Newspaper cutting from the early days of Blue Peter

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[James2001]

Number 73 episode beginning with Sandi/Ethel phoning Timmy Mallet at TV-am:

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Though this is from the master tape, so doesn't include the handover (you can see Sandi's picking up the phone waiting for her cue instead)- there was an off-air recording showing the full thing on there before, but I can't find it now.

Funny that the phone ringing sound effect still runs several seconds after Timmy's picked up!

[Neil Jones]

The off-air is here, from 3:20 onwards:
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[Stooky Bill]

I'm looking forward to someone uploading the previous episode so I can find out what went wrong the week before

[Neil Jones]

Somebody added to Wiki that the issue the week before may have just been an issue in terms of the storyline. Apparently a wedding was due to happen at the end of the previous series (might have been Toksvig's character's wedding) and had been cancelled by the time this new series came round.

I never saw it but from what I read No 73 was so far off the wall it was... different, as it was one big story arc where everybody was playing a character. And then Sandy Toksvig left and the whole programme went to complete crap after that. Apparently.

[James2001]

One of the most off the wall things is Neil Buchanan's hair in the early series 🤣