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Re: ISIHAC TV pilot

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lindaMay 13, 2008
 

 
--- In just-a-minute@..., "thomaswake16"
<thomaswake16@...> wrote:

>
> I remember in last year's BBC "Time Shift" documentary about TV
> remakes of radio shows that a TV pilot of ISIHAC was made. This

seemed

> ridiculous to me at first, given that the nature of the show means
> that most of it could only really work on radio, and I was

intrigued

> at the idea.
>
> Does anyone know more about it? Google tells me that it was made by
> Granada and shelved because they wanted a younger line-up, but

other

> than that, I can't find much. Does anyone know what year was it
> recorded? Presumably Willie Rushton was also present if it was

made in

> the early 90s.

this is taken from the bbc 30th anniversary of clue site :
There was going to be a TV version of Clue but you were deemed too
old for television.

"Tim: Well, we did a pilot. BBC weren't interested, naturally. So we
did a pilot for ITV and everybody seemed to like it. We didn't get
it quite right but it was going in the right direction. It went to
the central area where they decide what to put on and they
said, "Yes, great programme but could we have some younger people in
it?"
Barry: Can I apologise for hogging this?
Graeme: Yes, of course you can.
Barry: I apologise for hogging this.
Graeme: At the back of all our minds was the worry that it is such a
radio programme. It really exists on radio and works on radio and is
about radio and putting it on television might somehow take away
from its myth, might somehow spoil the radio show. We were never
100% about it.
Tim: I was 100% about it as long as you kept going on on radio at
the same time. That was pure greed though!
Barry: Willie was ambivalent as I remember, sort of bolt fast at one
point.
Tim: I would actually quite like to have done it in a way because
then we could have done some visual jokes which you can't do on
radio. So there would have been an extra element and we started to
try and put those on the pilot, didn't we? And not many of them
worked because they technically wouldn't work"

if you think that the show would only work on radio what was your
reaction to the thought of the live shows . it worked fine on stage
so i can imagine it would have worked well on tv .
cheers
Linda

 
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