Comments on: Saturday night’s alright-ish

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:22:10 +0000

Oh, also, remember up there I said Merlin should go before Strictly – well, hooray for me, because that’s what it’s doing from next week.

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:20:21 +0000

And the presenter of Wipeout UK is… Richard Hammond!

By: Nigel Fishwick

Nigel Fishwick — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:23:39 +0000

Hole in the Wall was great, albeit unchallenging, fun, but the best laughs of the night, for me at least, came for the all-new It’ll Be Alright on the Night, which featured some brilliant outtakes, most notably those featuring Central reporter, Colin Green, and the utterly brilliant piece at the charity custard pie event, with the reporter and cameraman getting pasted before ending the piece on a distinctly annoyed and Alan Partridge-esque note. To quote…

BALDING, BESPECTACLED REPORTER WITH CUSTARD PIE PLATE STUCK ATOP HIS HEAD LIKE A BIZARRE HALO
“Right, you’ve just ruined it! We’ve lost the camera, we’ve lost the item. You’ve gone over the top…”

Fantastic.

By: Rob Williams

Rob Williams — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:23:31 +0000

I’ve just seen Hole in the Wall, really I cannot decide if its the maddest idea in years or totally brilliant. Though its the best start to a Saturday night in years… Now ITV, its your turn…

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:26:21 +0000

Just to put on the record that my parents watched King Kong last night, and enjoyed it, but my mum told me she thought the duration of three and a half hours was “a misprint in the Radio Times”.

Oh, Tim Vine was really good, by the way.

By: Chris Hughes

Chris Hughes — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:19:21 +0000

Tonight’s ITV schedule is in no way worse than tomorrow’s – four hours of pro-celebrity football, and that’s it. Four hours.

That said, I like the way they’re hopefully billing Alastair Campbell as one of the “celebrities” in the trailer, as if anyone’s going to say, “Mum, can we watch it, Alastair Campbell’s playing!”

By: Graham Kibble-White

Graham Kibble-White — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:34:25 +0000

First contestants: the Biggins family versus Michelle Collins’ clan!

By: Nick Gates

Nick Gates — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:58:45 +0000

> no celebs please! Family Fortunes with real people!

Sorry! All Star Family Fortunes series three is on the way.

By: Rob Williams

Rob Williams — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:50:53 +0000

BBC One’s schedule seems ok, but it needs some comedy. Either Little Britain America or something like a new sketch show a la Three of a Kind. Though ITV’s line up should be New Game for a Laugh/people show, X Factor, showing of the new version of Bionic Woman, Game show and comedy/music show… Alternatively a game show with real people, no celebs please! Family Fortunes with real people!

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:03:57 +0000

It is a dull Saturday night, as Ian suggests, but it was always like this in early September, both the Beeb and ITV always used to whack on films at that point. Indeed the first sign of Autumn was always a five-hour mini-series on ITV over the weekend. Lest we forget England are also playing tonight, which might be Setanta’s biggest audience ever.

King Kong’s such an awful film to schedule because it’s blatantly far too long, I don’t know where else they could have put it and this slot is probably about as good as it could get. Not that I care, I’m going to go and see the great Tim Vine.