TV news items that don't need their own threads

[Butterfield]

So, Flog It! is being axed after 17 years. When I heard a couple of days ago, at first I was thinking it was Bargain Hunt and that Nightjar would be devastated. Then about a minute later I realised it was the even duller BBC Two show.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

I don't know what the difference is between Flog It and Bargain Hunt.

[Butterfield]

Flog It is for old people whereas Bargain Hunt is for old people and students. That's the difference.

[Butterfield]

...And Nightjar.

[Guest]

7,000 UK households still watching TV in black and white!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/08/uk-households-black-and-white-tv-licensing


:monocrome:

[Butterfield]

Lofty and Mary to return to 'EastEnders' after 30 years

Actors Tom Watt and Linda Davidson were last seen in Albert Square in 1988, and will reprise their roles as former barman Lofty and Mary, the punk groupie turned stripper.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lofty-mary-return-eastenders-30-years-112200448.html

[Butterfield]

Bergerac set to return

A new series of Classic TV crime drama Bergerac is being developed, it has been announced.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-47161490

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Is John Nettles going to be in it?

[Butterfield]

There is no word on who would play the lead role of Bergerac.

[Butterfield]

Brian Constantine, executive producer and chief executive of Jersey-based Westward Studios, said...."It's a much-loved drama and a real boost for Jersey, my home, where Bergerac has become part of the island's identity."

The only thing it does is make Jersey look like a hive of criminality.

[Butterfield]

First Bergerac, now this!

Crackerjack is coming back with Sam and Mark presenting

Children's TV favourite Crackerjack is to return to the BBC, 35 years after its last screen outing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47198357


One of my earliest TV-watching moments is of Crackerjack; some children putting their hands into boxes of gunge looking for things. I remember it absolutely terrifying me due to all the cheering, shouting and general chaos.

[Guest]

Is that the one with the cabbages?

[Fangirl Three]

Something something kids looking up from their phones and muttering 'Yeah, "Crackerjack", whatever'

[Butterfield]

Grange Hill 'icon' Zammo to join EastEnders

The actor who played Sammy "Zammo" McGuire in Grange Hill in the 1980s is to return to our screens as a new character in EastEnders.




Child star Lee MacDonald, who's now 50, rose to fame more than 30 years ago as the loveable Zammo, a character who later ran into drug problems.

MacDonald will appear on the BBC One soap in two episodes this spring.

He'll play a bus driver, who takes on Mick Carter - played by Danny Dyer - in a radio competition to win gig tickets.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47784238

[Butterfield]

He'll play a bus driver, who takes on Mick Carter - played by Danny Dyer - in a radio competition to win gig tickets.

That sounds a thrilling storyline, sure to pull in the viewers.

[Butterfield]

I genuinely think seeing the terrifying Zammo/drugs storyline when I was 5 or 6 stopped me from touching any such thing myself in later life.

Then years later you find out pretty much the whole cast were allegedly doing drugs behind the scenes!

[Guest]

Then years later you find out pretty much the whole cast were allegedly doing drugs behind the scenes!

Well, if that doesn't put you off dr*gs...

[Butterfield]

Is the one on the left an ex-Grange Hill person? I feel like I know her.

[Butterfield]

[Fangirl Three]

She might be the front girl camera right - Belinda was it?

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