ITV's 50 Greatest Shows Ever

I guess the more interesting stuff was at positions 50-32 or thereabouts.

What did they say about the Prisoner?

Not very much. Angus Deayton opined that it went "a bit unhinged" in its final episodes. The only other talking head they had was George Baker who played the second Number 2 (don't ask!) in the pilot episode, but he was quite interesting apropos "the prison of the mind" and making comparisons with Ibsen and Beckett.

Where the fuck is Crossroads?

Including The Muppet Show seems rather audacious. I remember it being on BBC (ditto Kenny Everett), but more importantly everything else is British so it seems an unjust anamoly. Where is Home & Away? The A-Team?

Sitcoms are noticeably few in the list, understandably for ITV.

Shows I would like to have seen in the 50:

The Chart Show
Get Stuffed!
Interceptor
Bad Influence
Play Your Cards Right
Strike It Lucky (WHAT IS A HOTSPOT NOT?)
Knightmare
1992...Forever! (and other ...Forever episodes)
Fresh Fields
Mr Bean (ok just the first two)
Shafted
Friday/Saturday Night Live
Hale & Pace (you'll laugh at any old crap when you're 11)
The New Statesman (see above)
SM:TV
New Faces (I was enthralled by the electronic 'Spaghetti Junction' scoreboard at the time)

I really want to do one - maybe nearer Christmas?

Then again, if you excluded the Muppets I guess you'd also have to exclude The Prisoner - both Lew Grade/ITC productions made in Britain but written, produced and directed by Americans.

Oh yes - and where was Thunderbirds?

I think this is a really good idea, but it needs to be done with the same militaristic organisation as the "Singles of the 00s" poll, not some of these Johnny Come Lately polls.

That and him nobbing Paula Yates' mum.

and while the production crew for the muppets was mostly american, i believe it *was shot in the UK, and considered a british show. there are perhaps apocryphal tales of the muppets operators smuggling drugs through transatlantic customs in hidden compartments inside kermit, piggy, fozzy et al.

Day Today surely, assuming it doesn't lose votes in a Brasseye/Day Today split.

The Muppet Show was definitely shot in the UK. I have a friend who danced with Gene Kelly during the shooting of his Muppet Show (she was 4 and had been sneaked on set by her dad, who was one of the cameramen and British)

The main missing programmes for me (apart from the ITC ones that Marcello rightly pointed out) was some of their better kids programmes: Dangermouse, Count Duckula, The Tomorrow People, Catweazle etc.

"Day Today"/"Brass Eye" not a safe bet either, I'd think - giant consensus amongst brit ILX0rs, sure, but not that well known outside of the UK, for obvious reasons. Haha, mind you, I imagine that if all of ILX were to watch a few eps of either show most everyone would probably love it.

I imagine "Dr.Who" would garner similiar levels of brit consensus, and probably take in quite a lot more non-Uk voters, too!

"Simpsons" could very well win - which would be kinda meh, but there are worse shows.

"Futurama", "South Park", "Newsradio" = all shows with solid, very vocal cult followings around here; top20, top10?

"Monty Python's Flying Circus" and "Twin Peaks" in the top ten? They better be.

What would really interest me, tho, is how older shows would fare. "All In The Family", "The Avengers", "Get Smart", "Twilight Zone" etc.

(Yeah, I've thought about this a lot. I've actually been meaning to suggest this poll for a few months now, but have always been too intimidated to actually step up and take up the vote-counting responsibilities.)

http://www.petford.net/kaleidoscope/desert-island-television.html

Where is Kinvig, then eh???

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/20/lorraine-kelly-theatrical-artist-tax-tribunal-judge-rules?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The breakfast TV presenter Lorraine Kelly is performing the role “of a friendly, chatty and fun personality” when she appears on ITV each morning and not simply appearing as herself, a tax tribunal judge has ruled.

Nah, YOU’RE obsessed with what the guy who played PC Reg Hollis in The Bill is up to these days. pic.twitter.com/9mV1MxJb14

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