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Re: ISIHAC TV pilot

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thomaswake16May 13, 2008
 

 
Fair point. It just seems to me that most of the audio-only gags (e.g.
Samantha) are running jokes that the live audience would have
understood. I can't imagine it would have played as well with a TV
audience, which would presumably include a reasonable number of people
who had never listened to the radio show.

Of course, the same was true of the radio series when it first
started. I suppose it's like the JAM TV series - it seems to me that
there's something fundamental about it that just wouldn't feel "right"
on TV, but I can't really put my finger on what it is.

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