Saturday, June 11, 2005
Wishing for my Favourite Programme to be back!
As you know , I am passionate about disability issues but one thing that I enjoyed
finding out my disability issues from was cruelly axed by the BBC and was promptly
taken off the air in 1998. I am of course talking about my best favourite programme
then called " From the Edge". Anyone remember it?
You probably remember it like I do for having some great issues that the presenters
all talked about such as transport, holidays, and places of interest.
One best thing for me about the programme had to be seeing Mik my hero, be the action
man reporter and going to all different places and telling us about them in a funny way.
He always could interview people in a relaxed, informal way and he could always laugh
if the places were funny.
All the other presenters were good too and all seemed to know a lot about whatever issues
they covered. They also had comedy slots in the programme too which got made into comedy series
for BBC2. They were "The Alphabet Soup Show", "In Stitches with Daphne Doesgood".
Damon, my internet pal and phone-friend was the Assistant Producer and he told me that
he also worked on finding the disability issues for the show as well.
He thinks the same as me at bringing "From The Edge" back to the TV screen.
One fact I will give you though, did you know the title music was cleverly produced
by lovely Mik? There you go then, something you didn't know!
If anyone has videos of it or pictures of the show, please tell me as I would love to watch it again!
finding out my disability issues from was cruelly axed by the BBC and was promptly
taken off the air in 1998. I am of course talking about my best favourite programme
then called " From the Edge". Anyone remember it?
You probably remember it like I do for having some great issues that the presenters
all talked about such as transport, holidays, and places of interest.
One best thing for me about the programme had to be seeing Mik my hero, be the action
man reporter and going to all different places and telling us about them in a funny way.
He always could interview people in a relaxed, informal way and he could always laugh
if the places were funny.
All the other presenters were good too and all seemed to know a lot about whatever issues
they covered. They also had comedy slots in the programme too which got made into comedy series
for BBC2. They were "The Alphabet Soup Show", "In Stitches with Daphne Doesgood".
Damon, my internet pal and phone-friend was the Assistant Producer and he told me that
he also worked on finding the disability issues for the show as well.
He thinks the same as me at bringing "From The Edge" back to the TV screen.
One fact I will give you though, did you know the title music was cleverly produced
by lovely Mik? There you go then, something you didn't know!
If anyone has videos of it or pictures of the show, please tell me as I would love to watch it again!
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I was talking about From The Edge to someone the other day actually and trying to remember when it was canceled. It wasn't as early as 1998, I think it was April 2000.
It kind of served a purpose at the time but if a disability TV show were to come back it would have to be quite different now. Bit more lively, bit more character-led and probably full o'graphics. We did have some great stuff on it though and I learnt a lot about the business working on a quick turnaround magazine prog.
Part of the problem is that magazine programmes are totally out of favour now. Also they are expensive and resource intensive to produce. (god knows how You and Yours stays on air really, I didn't say that tho)
It kind of served a purpose at the time but if a disability TV show were to come back it would have to be quite different now. Bit more lively, bit more character-led and probably full o'graphics. We did have some great stuff on it though and I learnt a lot about the business working on a quick turnaround magazine prog.
Part of the problem is that magazine programmes are totally out of favour now. Also they are expensive and resource intensive to produce. (god knows how You and Yours stays on air really, I didn't say that tho)
Hi Damon, I looked at a webpage and you're right about "From The Edge" being cancelled in 2000.
I thought they should have had a compilation show afterwards and an audience with... like they do sometimes.
If they had I would have come to it!
And also I would have worked to make a new disability issues programme.
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I thought they should have had a compilation show afterwards and an audience with... like they do sometimes.
If they had I would have come to it!
And also I would have worked to make a new disability issues programme.
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