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There are adverts before it, but if you want to skip straight to the closing down sequence it starts at 2 minutes 8 seconds.
I absolutely adored this little sign-off that Channel 7 in Sydney used to do in the 80’s. I used to wait up purposefully to catch it. Thank you to FrozenDobermanfor uploading the video. I hope it doesn’t get taken down.
I am still alive. I just really haven’t had anything to talk about of late. I’ve just been busy starving myself, hanging around on Blip.fm, getting back into Twitter (I don’t know why either), blended with watching bits of TV and watching all 5 series of Peep Show to bring me up to date.
I am IN LOVE with Peep Show. Can’t believe I never watched it from the start. As Em keeps saying to me, Mark (David Mitchell) and Jeremy (Robert Webb) are probably MORE like David and Rob than we should really think about! There are some really naughty bits in it though that I love, like Mark bumping into Dobby in the stationery room in series 5 and she gets all moochy with him, gyrating her bum against his crotch and proceeds to make him jiz his trousers! I can’t wait for series 6 now!! I recorded a programme which we watched last night about Paul (rent-a-gob) Morley and his “journey” through fashion. He spoke to Jarvis Cocker at one point about his fashion style, which inspired my subconscious to have two dreams. One earlier in the night, which I barely remembered about me and Em helping Jarvis buy a new wardrobe of clothes. The other, just before I woke up this morning on Jarvis sending us a letter of thanks for helping him buy his new wardrobe! Daft! I’m always amused when my dreams immediately correlate with something I’ve just done or seen the previous day or night! I did my back in a few days ago. Don’t know how, but it was KILLING me for like 3 days. Finally it has gotten better and I’m okay again now. Well, I better be off. I’m trying a new recipe for tea tonight. Hope it’ll be good. It’s a pasta dish.As you know, I love my darts. I’ve been watching most of the games all week, following my particular favourites, Martin (Wolfie) Adams and Ted (The Count) Hankey.
I’ve been following Ted for quite a few years now and in the early days I used to refer to him as “Mr. Hankey, the Christmas poo” after the South Park character. It used to give me and Em a little giggle that his name was Hankey… Well, I haven’t done that for a while, but then I noticed this last night when I was watching…
As Pixie-Anne Wheatley on Fast Forward used to say (if you’re Australian, you might get the reference), “It’s the question that’s on the lips and tips of everyone’s thingies”…
I got this two nights ago off a programme on BBC Three called Almost Famous in which they show clips of stars from TV shows, adverts, school productions, etc, shot before they were famous – obviously. This is a different clip from the Dramarama episode Mr T was in WAY back in 1988!
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I love baby David! Aaawwww
The TV Times readers have voted David Tennant sexiest male on TV. Receiving his award Mr T says “Well, I’m not sure what to say about being called the sexiest actor of the year! But I’m very flattered and somewhat bewildered. All I know is that I voted for John Barrowman!”
He then goes on to say how delighted he is that Doctor Who got the gong for favourite TV show, finishing with “See you at Christmas. We’ve got Cybermen, snow and David Morrissey…it’s going to be glorious!” So there…One of the treats I’ve been waiting for for most of the year happens tonight. Finally, Einstein and Eddington comes to the screen. Can’t wait!
Well now Christmas is TRULY on its way now another Children In Need is done and dusted for another year.
The theme for this year was “do something different”, did that extend to the BBC One program itself? Hell no! Still hosted by one of the world’s worst presenters in God’s universe, Sir Terry Wigon (Wogan) (Eurovision is a totally different matter – he’s sort of in his element there) along with Tess Daly – who actually held it together and helped to make it a little less shambolic. Everyone elses favourite female presenter, Fearne Cotton, was helping out too (she seems to be universally hated, but I like her). The night started off with *yawn* McFly doing a song. And it just kept descending from there. The cast of The Bill doing a Blues Brothers style musical medley.It’s been nearly a week and I’m STILL reeling from the news that David Tennant is leaving Doctor Who.
In his own words, here’s why:
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This piece (edited) I wrote for a thread on a TV forum site. I thought it SO good, I decided to extend it a little and add it as a post in its own right on my blog.
___________________________________________________________ I’ve been turned off by the “same old format” tripe of X Factor (singing reality contest in the vain of Pop Idol). The sob stories, the “average” singers that get through, the groups always being booted out never to win. I watched some of the opening shows, but as soon as it got to “boot camp”, I well and truly tuned out. I was excited by the return of Strictly Come Dancing (the original UK format of the new worldwide “Dancing With The Stars” franchise), but only watched the 1st week of mens and the 1st week of ladies. Now I’m equally sick of that and haven’t watched it since! Why DOES reality TV dominate Saturday nights so much now? And WHY oh WHY are we going down this American route of if you have a successful show, you should churn it out season after season with no changes in format to keep it interesting? Thank goodness there’s going to be a break from the “Maria/Joseph/Nancy – search for the next musical theatre star” Andrew Lloyd Webber lead shows next year. As soon as Strictly Come Dancing and X-Factor are finished we’ll get Dancing On Ice in January. I wish I could shout from the roof tops “Reality TV is dead, long live Variety!” But no one can even do a good variety show anymore. There are still aspects of Saturday nights at certain times of year to look forward to, thank goodness, like when Doctor Who is on air. But Saturday nights USED to be a TV entertainment shining beacon! Now the light is flickering and almost extinguished. R.I.P. Saturday night TV. It was good while it lasted.