Lloyd pitched the idea to the heads of BBC Comedy and Light Entertainment, and was given a six-programme series on condition that he collaborate with Sean Hardie, who had worked in current affairs at the BBC. Said Parton: "She can have the credit. This also happened at a time that the magazine National Lampoon, The Second City troupes and Saturday Night Live became showcases of alternative comedy in North America. However, the network controller reportedly liked the programme so much, that a second series of seven episodes was commissioned. The programme featured Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith, and Griff Rhys Jones, as well as Chris Langham in the first series. DVD cover. When he came up with one of his gnarliest songs, there was a riot going on. Originally shown as a comedy alternative to the Nine O'Clock News on BBC1, it featured satirical sketches on current news stories and popular culture, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-edited videos, and spoof television formats. Bill Wilson directed the first three series, while Geoff Posner handled the fourth. When The Kingsmen recorded the hit version, their lyrics were indecipherable. Baronet Oswald Ernald Mosley (1980) More Songfacts: Louie LouieThe Kingsmen "Louie Louie" was first recorded in 1955 by an R&B singer named Richard Berry, and his lyrics are easy to understand. The BBC's Comedy Blog entry for the 29th of July 2005, The BBC H2G2 Page for "Not the Nine O'clock News", Museum of Broadcast Communications: biographical information, International Emmy Award for Outstanding Popular Arts Programming, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Not_the_Nine_O%27Clock_News&oldid=981747050, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2019, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 4 October 2020, at 06:10. Minister Margaret Thatcher complained when, by adroit image editing, the programme implied she had crashed a car. The original version of The Memory Kinda Lingers was a double LP. Effects used in pop videos, provided by the Quantel Paintbox, were often a highlight of the musical numbers. Initially, Lloyd and Hardie were considering doing a lampoon of actuality programmes à la The Frost Report with Rowan Atkinson portraying an old-fashioned host attacking liberal and/or modern trends. The French part in Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" explains that the killer is going after a girl, like Norman Bates in the movie Psycho. The format was a deliberate departure from the stream-of-consciousness meta-comedy pioneered by Monty Python's Flying Circus, returning to a more conventional sketch format. Other sketches of the unaired first episode were also lifted or remade on episodes throughout the series. Simon Rex from the TV show What I Like About You and Wilmer Valderrama from That 70s Show both appear in the LMFAO video for "Sexy and I Know It. 1:59. 2:44. Left to right: Mel Smith, Pamela Stephenson, Rowan Atkinson, and Griff Rhys Jones. In August 2003, these videos were released on DVD under the title of The Best of Not The Nine O'Clock News: Volume One, with The Best of Not The Nine O'Clock News: Volume Two following a year later. Not The Nine O'Clock News Song list. The first was reprinted in 1995 as Not for Sale. Sketches were mostly self-contained, lasting from a few seconds to a few minutes, and often had a degree of naturalism in performance. Atkinson, Langham, and Stephenson were joined by Mel Smith,[1] who was scheduled to work on the pilot, but declined after reading the script (he called the finished episode in retrospect "the worst half hour of TV" that he ever saw). The Brazilian rocker sees pictures in his riffs. NTNOCN: "American Express" (1980) by Michael James. The documentary was repeated on 3 August 2013, just over two weeks after the death of Smith. [10], Three books were released to tie in with the series: Not! Not the Nine O'Clock News was a British television sketch comedy which was broadcast on BBC2 from 1979 to 1982. [citation needed]. These albums were very successful, with the first two both reaching the top ten of the UK albums chart, a rare feat for a spoken word album. Not The Nine O'Clock News. [7] However, the producers accepted scripts for sketches from a wide range of writers, and ensured the programme remained topical by recording sketches only days before broadcast. Two highly edited VHS releases of the series, entitled The Gorilla Kinda Lingers and Nice Video, Shame about the Hedgehog, were released in 1995. A total of 27 episodes of 25–30-minute duration were produced over four series. The second disc is titled Not in Front of the Audience and is a live recording of the cast's stage production. Not The Nine O'Clock News - 'Gob On You' (7 single release, 1979) 1:51. [2] The second series of Not The Nine O’Clock News won the Silver Rose at the Montreux Festival and a BAFTA Award for Best Light Entertainment Programme in 1982. Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris and Lyle Lovett are just a few of the artists who have looked to Clark for insightful, intelligent songs. The man who brought us "Red Skies" and "Saved By Zero" is now an organic farmer in France. "Hunger Strike" by Temple of the Dog features Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder, and was Vedder's first music video. Find Not the 9 O'Clock News discography, albums and singles on AllMusic (The 1980 single "Typing Pool" by 'Pam and the Paper Clips' (EMI 5015), is variously ascribed to Pamela Stephenson and NtNON. As the programme was originally scheduled to air in the time-slot occupied by Fawlty Towers, John Cleese was to have introduced the first episode in a sketch referring to a technicians' strike (then in progress) that hindered the production of the series, explaining (in character as Basil Fawlty) that there was no programme that week, so a "tatty revue" would be broadcast instead. It was in fact written by Roger and Nigel Planer, who were among the show's many writers). Ratings were dismal as well: the first episode had fewer than a million viewers. Skits could include scenes such as a group of rural Americans at a barbecue singing several minutes of comical implausibles like "I'm prepared to believe that Nixon wasn't a crook; I'm prepared to believe Love Story's a readable book..." and finally concluding, "I believe that the devil is ready to repent; – but I can't believe Ronald Reagan is president."[4]. Not The Nine O'Clock News - Nice Video, Shame About The Song Not The Nine O'Clock News - 'I Like Trucking' (7 single release, 1981) 2:46. The sketch with Cleese was broadcast later that year, when the final episode of Fawlty Towers went out during the broadcast run of the first series of Not The Nine O'Clock News, though the significance of the sketch was lost. The programme is credited with bringing alternative comedy to British television: Lloyd once commented he wanted to do a "modern, working-class" comedy in contrast to other series of the time, such as The Two Ronnies, as well as attempting to replicate the Satire boom of the early 1960s that launched the careers of John Cleese, Dudley Moore, Eric Idle, Tim Brooke-Taylor and others. Not the nine O'clock news - The man who likes toilets (Mel Smith and Rowan Atkinson) by JinSemTheFirst. The series has rarely been repeated; eight re-cut and condensed (to make it "faster and funnier than ever"[8]) "episodes" made for a video edition in 1995 are shown instead. Lloyd met Pamela Stephenson at a party, and she agreed to join. This is primarily because the original episodes in their entirety lampooned events that were in the news at the time. The series’ name derived from its schedule, as it originally aired on BBC2 at the same time as the Nine O'Clock News on BBC1. The Reunion was broadcast on Radio 4 on 31 July 2005.[5]. Then-Prime The programme was to be called Sacred Cows, but the news programme was chosen because of its larger quantity of sources. Not The Nine O'Clock News was produced by John Lloyd. Also published around this time was a spoof Orwellian edition of The Times newspaper, Not The 1984 Times, which – although widely assumed to be – was not actually connected to the series. The main writers included Colin Bostock-Smith, Andy Hamilton, Peter Brewis, Richard Curtis, and Clive Anderson. The songs was always my favourite section of the show. Cathy's ClownThe Everly Brothers. Not the Nine O'Clock News was a British television sketch comedy which was broadcast on BBC2 from 1979 to 1982. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs. The Apostles' Creed (Not the Nine O'Clock News) by JSBasss. They wanted to bring in a woman, but Victoria Wood turned the programme down. (Langham actually refused to speak to his former cast-mates for a number of years after he was fired, until appearing as a regular on Smith and Jones in the 1990s). Not The Nine O'Clock News - 'Oh Bosanquet' (7 single release, 1979) 2:45. ", Dolly Parton is just fine with Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You." Not the Royal Wedding was promoted by a little-known radio spin-off, Not the Nuptials, transmitted on BBC Radio 1. The first series was criticised for being "a poor mix of stand up, and a mild portion of sketches" and newspaper reviews referred it to as it "extremely offensive" and that "should not be allowed on TV". Hedgehog Sandwich also peaked at number 89 in Australia.[9]. ; Not the Royal Wedding (the royal wedding in question being the marriage of Charles and Diana); and Not the General Election, a tie-in with the 1983 general election. [1], Satire was a key theme in the series' comedy. Lloyd and Hardie decided to re-cast the series, retaining Langham and Atkinson. The series launched the careers of several high-profile actors and writers, and also led to other comedic series including Blackadder and Alas Smith and Jones. For the second series, Langham was replaced by Griff Rhys-Jones, who had already appeared in minor roles, aside from having directed the radio series The Atkinson People. Hedgehog Sandwich and the first disc of The Memory Kinda Lingers were later combined on a BBC double-length cassette and double-CD set. Healey's and Hope's impressions were achieved by the use of "talking head" puppets, which in the mid-80s would become a characteristic staple of Spitting Image, produced by Lloyd in its early series. Originally shown as a comedy alternative to the Nine O'Clock News on BBC1, it featured satirical sketches on current news stories and popular culture, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-edited videos, and spoof television formats. In 2005, Atkinson, Smith, Stephenson, Langham, and producer Lloyd reunited to talk to Sue MacGregor about the series. [11], Two 'page-a-day' tear-off calendars, edited by John Lloyd and containing several contributions from Douglas Adams, were released in the early 1980s (Not 1982 and Not 1983). Langham's departure was touched upon, with Lloyd seeming to take the blame, though Atkinson had campaigned for Langham to be kept in the cast. 1:51. [11] The same station had also previously produced a behind-the-scenes documentary on Not The Nine O'Clock News as part of their magazine series Studio B15. Howard Goodall (subsequently composer of the theme music for Blackadder, Red Dwarf, and The Vicar of Dibley) was musical director. Producer Bob Ezrin convinced Pink Floyd to put a disco beat and children's chorus on "Another Brick In The Wall (part II)," which started out as a short interstitial for their album The Wall. Three vinyl albums were released at the time the series was screening, entitled Not the Nine O'Clock News, Hedgehog Sandwich, and The Memory Kinda Lingers. I just want my cash.". Both of these are available in one set, unavailable separately, in Region 1. An American adaptation, Not Necessarily the News ran for seven years, from 1983 to 1990 on the Home Box Office cable television channel. NTNOCN: "Closedown" (1980) by Michael James. Aside from Atkinson, the original cast comprised Christopher Godwin, John Gorman, Chris Langham, Willoughby Goddard, and Jonathan Hyde, and the first episode of a planned series was scheduled for 2 April 1979; this also featured Chris Emmett (impersonating Denis Healey), Robert Llewelyn (impersonating Bob Hope) and Hertz Rental (narrating general elections in Greenland).
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