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Re: ISIHAC TV pilot

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lapsedcatMay 14, 2008
 

 
Does anyone know when the ISIHAC tribute show and the series of
special programmes are going to be broadcast?

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

>
> I don't suppose anyone knows what year it was made? The closest I've
> been able to find is "early 90s".
>
> --- In just-a-minute@..., "thomaswake16"
> <thomaswake16@> wrote:
> >
> > 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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