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Trinny & Susannah Undress the Nation is a British reality fashion-themed television documentary series on ITV featuring fashion advisors Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine. The newly formatted series, stemming from Trinny & Susannah Undress..., began to air on ITV on 7 November 2007, and explores some of the major fashion problems in Britain. Numerous eye-catching stunts were filmed for the first series of the show in order to emphasise the points raised by Trinny and Susannah. One stunt included Susannah Constantine being transformed into a 70-year-old to look at how people dress for their age. Breasts, bras and uniforms were also some of the themes investigated during the first series.
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Trinny & Susannah Undress the Nation is a British reality fashion-themed television documentary series on ITV featuring fashion advisors Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine. The newly formatted series, stemming from Trinny & Susannah Undress..., began to air on ITV on 7 November 2007, and explores some of the major fashion problems in Britain. Numerous eye-catching stunts were filmed for the first series of the show in order to emphasise the points raised by Trinny and Susannah. One stunt included Susannah Constantine being transformed into a 70-year-old to look at how people dress for their age. Breasts, bras and uniforms were also some of the themes investigated during the first series.
Who Gets the Dog? is a one-off British television comedy drama starring Kevin Whately, Alison Steadman, Stephen Mangan, and Emma Pierson. It was written by Guy Hibbert and directed by Nicholas Renton and premieres on ITV on Sunday 2 December 2007 at 9pm.
Britain's Best Dish is a British daytime cookery show part of the ITV Food category on ITV hosted by Mary Nightingale. Amateur cooks from around the UK compete to cook "Britain's Best Dish" and a prize of £10,000. The judges are Ed Baines, John Burton Race and Jilly Goolden. From October 2011, the competition was rebranded as simply Best Dish with new graphics and a new look studio. The programme airs weekdays at 5pm. A book containing recipes from the series was published in 2009.
Man O Man was a United Kingdom game show, which ran from 4 May 1996 to 7 August 1999, hosted by Chris Tarrant. The first series was produced by Richard Hearsey who previously produced another show hosted by Tarrant called "Prove it!". The first series was recorded at Twickenham Film Studios during the winter of 1995 and aired in 1996. The show was given another shot in 1998 with 2 one-off specials and a second series in 1999, both being recorded at The Fountain Studios. One of the hostesses in the first series, Tracey McAndrew later changed her stage name to Nell McAndrew and went on to co-host the re-make of "It's a Knockout!" for Channel 5, again working with Richard Hearsey as producer but was produced by Ronin Entertainment.
Nellie the Elephant is a cartoon series created by Terry Ward on behalf of FilmFair in the United Kingdom that ran between 1989 and 1990. The series featured Lulu as the voice of Nellie, with Tony Robinson as narrator. A comic-book annual was released in 1991 in an attempt to further advertise the series, but the annual failed to attract a wide audience.
Garnock Way was a short-lived Scottish soap opera, produced by Scottish Television for the ITV network, running from 1976 to 1979.
The Saturday Starship was a British Saturday morning children's series that was produced by Central Television and aired on the ITV network. There was one series of 21 editions between 1 September 1984 and 26 January 1985 hosted by Tommy Boyd and Bonnie Langford. It was a follow-up to The Saturday Show and TISWAS. Chris Baines presented one of the very first environmental strands on children's TV in the UK, and this led to the award winning The Ark series in 1988.
Christmas at the Riviera is a 2007 British comedy drama starring Reece Shearsmith, Pam Ferris, Barbara Flynn, Warren Clarke, Alexander Armstrong, Anna Chancellor, Sam Kelly and Darren Boyd. It was written and directed by Mark Bussell and Justin Sbresni, and debuted on ITV at 9pm on Christmas Eve 2007.
STARStreet is a British children's television series, starring the pop group allSTARS*. The 'STARS' in allSTARS* and STARStreet represents the first letter of each member's name – Sandi, Thaila, Ashley, Rebecca and Sam. The series saw the band living together in a fictional crazy colourful house, where anything out of the ordinary could happen. It was produced for two series by Carlton Television, in association with Byrne Blood Productions. The first series first aired as part of the ITV children's Saturday morning show, SMTV Live in 2001. Due to its success, the first series was later repeated on CITV. The second series aired on CITV in 2002. Production of STARStreet was cancelled in 2002 due to the allSTARS* splitting up.
Junior Showtime was a British variety show for children made by Yorkshire Television and shown on ITV between 1969 and 1974. The series' executive producer by Jess Yates. Presented by Bobby Bennett from the Leeds City Varieties theatre, the show consisted of song and dance routines and featured a number of performers who would go on to stardom in Britain including Joe Longthorne, Pauline Quirke, Kathryn Apanowicz, Bonnie Langford, Mark Curry and Malandra Burrows, later of Emmerdale. One of the regulars was Glynn Poole of the Poole Family - Opportunity Knocks winners. Some of the routines were repeated week after week. In a 2001 poll by Channel 4 to find the 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows Junior Showtime was at number 99. However Jeff Evans, the author of The Penguin TV Companion has also identified it as being amongst the twenty worst shows of all time. The overwhelming majority of the episodes have not survived, only three programmes are believed to still exist.
Ghost Train was a children's television programme broadcast on ITV, between 1989 and 1991, produced by Tyne Tees Television in association with various ITV regional stations including Border Television, Television South West, Ulster Television, Channel Television and Grampian Television.
Criss Cross Quiz was a quiz programme that combined the game noughts and crosses with general knowledge questions and aired on the ITV network from 1957 to 1967. It was produced by Granada Television. The programme was presented by Jeremy Hawk from 1957 to 1962 and Barbara Kelly from 1963 to 1967. The series was based on an American show entitled Tic Tac Dough which ran from 1956 to 1959 and was revived in 1978. Additionally, a children's version of the show called Junior Criss Cross Quiz was produced starting in 1957. Kids played the game, but for prizes instead of money. This series ran from 13 November 1957 to 29 June 1967. Presenters on the children's version were: Jeremy Hawk, Chris Kelly, Bob Holness, Mike Sarne, Chris Howland, Gordon Luck, Peter Wheeler, Bill Grundy, Danny Blanchflower and Barbara Kelly.
The Golden Shot was a British television game show produced by ATV for ITV between 1 July 1967 and 13 April 1975, based on the German TV show Der goldene Schuss. It is most commonly associated with host Bob Monkhouse, though, three other presenters also hosted the show during its lifetime. Hostess Anne Aston was on hand to read out the scores achieved by the contestants, and each month a "Maid of the Month", usually a glamour model of the era, would demonstrate the prizes and announce the contestants. When Bob Monkhouse returned to present the show in 1974, he was joined by co-hostess Wei Wei Wong, an ex-member of Dougie Squires' Second Generation dance troupe. This was notable as one of the earliest regular appearances by an Asian woman on British TV.
The Royal Today is a British medical soap opera, a spin-off of the similarly themed drama, The Royal. The concept is that whilst The Royal is set in the late 1960s, The Royal Today featured the same hospital in the present day, with a new set of characters working in the same location. Each episode followed the events of a single day, and the show was broadcast daily, so the series could be said to progress in real time. The first series of 50 half-hour episodes began on 7 January 2008 on the ITV network airing from 4pm-4.30pm. Although there were a number of running storylines, the series generally eschewed the use of cliffhangers. The series was axed in March 2008 after poor ratings, on an average of 1.175 million viewers.
A Room with a View is televised adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel, A Room with a View, written by Andrew Davies. It was announced in 2006 and filmed in the summer of 2007. A Room with a View was broadcast on 4 November 2007, on ITV. Laura Mackie, ITV director of drama, has said that this adaptation "captures the spirit of Forster’s most memorable novel, but delivers it in a fresh, engaging way for a modern audience." It was the first time real-life father and son Timothy and Rafe Spall had acted together.
Northern Life was a daily news programme on Tyne Tees Television, which aired from 6 September 1976 to 2 October 1992. The programme was aired at 6pm on weekday evenings, for some years at 6.25pm, and ran for 30, 35 or 60 minutes at various points in its run. The programme was the successor to Today at Six, and was replaced by Tyne Tees Today in 1992 following the takeover by Yorkshire Television. The programme had a light-hearted approach and was notable for Paul Frost's monologues towards the end of many of the shows. For much of its run Northern Life had a split-regional news service integrated into the second part of the programme, with the south of the Tyne Tees region served by the Middlesbrough studio anchored by Teesside-based news reporters such as Andy Kluz. Presenters of the show included Bill Steel, Tom Coyne, Paul Frost, Jane Wyatt, Pam Royle, Eileen McCabe, Stuart McNeil and Sheila Matheson.
Simply the Best was a game show broadcast on the United Kingdom terrestrial network ITV in 2004. Filmed in Jersey as a co-production of Carlton Television and Channel Television, it was hosted by Phil Tufnell and Kirsty Gallacher, and featured the cheerleaders from the American football team the Scottish Claymores. Each week two teams from cities across the UK competed in a series of madcap games to go forward to a final, where the eventual prize was £50,000 for local community projects. Howard Hughes provided the commentator of the show The series was directly based on a French series entitled Intervilles, from which It's a Knockout had previously been adapted. The 2004 winners were Leeds, while Sheffield were the runners-up. The 2nd series of the show failed to broadcast in 2005 or subsequent years.
24 Hour Quiz is a British game show that was broadcast on ITV in early 2004, presented by Shaun Williamson and Matt Brown and created by Richard Osman for Endemol UK. It was shown from 5pm to 6pm. Several protest groups complained after several nude scenes appeared and a contestant was ejected due to offensive behaviour. ITV2 provided live streaming from the "quiz pod". The series was axed after one series by ITV due to low ratings. In October 26, 2012, Richard Osman, writing for The Guardian named 24 Hour Quiz among four of UK TV's worst ever gameshows.
Ask No Questions was a celebrity panel game that was produced by Yorkshire Television and aired on ITV in 1986 and 1987. The programme was co-hosted by John Junkin and Carol Vorderman. The team of six celebrities are given clues and asked to guess the question that relates to them.
The Championship was a British football television programme featuring highlights from the Coca Cola Football League. It was almost always shown on Sunday mornings on ITV, presented by Matt Smith. Despite its name, it also covered Football League One and Football League Two matches, albeit to a lesser extent than Championship matches. The show included various additional features since it began in August 2004 and had its format changed due to widespread criticism of the number of commercial breaks. Link scenes usually involved Smith speaking to camera from various parts of the stadium of the featured match, such as the dressing rooms, the referee's office, the boot room, the pie stand and so on.