Kenny Everett / Hot Gossip - TV Programmes

ethel_wombat · 17-11-2005, 23:05

Little program on Kenny Everett tonight on ITV1. How did they get away with Hot Gossip at 7:00pm?

And I'd forgotten Arlene Phillips was a member the troupe

_the_brain · 17-11-2005, 23:21

Kenny Everett was ace! Do you know if there are any plans to repeat his show? Or a DVD of the series?
I love that woodworking guy!

ethel_wombat · 17-11-2005, 23:24

There's a DVD called "Kenny Everett the complete naughty bits" which is disgustingly cheap if you look on http://www.find-dvd.co.uk

SteveW2 · 17-11-2005, 23:58

loved the clip that Brittany must have copied.

Abraham · 18-11-2005, 00:03

Some time ago I saw a video called Kenny Everitt the complete naughty bits. The thing was it didn't have any (naughty bits). None at all. Not 1. Which I thought was a bit odd, given the title. If this is the dvd release of that video, then I will have done you a favour. Don't bother it's rubbish.

gkmacca · 18-11-2005, 00:09

Arlene has aged fairly well. She's sixty now. She looks like she's sat on a sour lemon, but she's aged well nonetheless. Kenny Everett was such a great DJ - ripped off by so many lesser talents - and really good on TV as well.

zoot · 18-11-2005, 00:17

It was really strange -- particularly considering the bitchiness of the host -- to watch a programme so positive, so upbeat and so non-critical of its subject matter. It didn't go down the "tortured homosexual... he laughed to hide the tears" route that I was half-expecting.

Andrew Ayr · 18-11-2005, 00:21

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Originally Posted by _the_brain

Kenny Everett was ace! Do you know if there are any plans to repeat his show? Or a DVD of the series?
I love that woodworking guy!

His shows were repeated with monotonous regularity on Paramount a few years back, maybe the will show them again. I have to agree the man was a total genius, and one of the most influential radio presenters and broadcasters of any generation since the 60's, despite what people may think of him personally.

Considering the lack of technology in comparison 20 - 25 years ago to what there is now, his stuff was amazing.

I'll never forget his one time exit from BBC Radio 1 which was influenced by something like...

'When Britain was an empire, we had an emporer, when it became a kingdom, we had a king. Now it's country and we have Margaret Thatcher!

Or when he impersonated all 3 Bee Gees, and 'interviewed' them as well, and the song that reminded him of a pile of false teeth was 'Massachusetts'. Had Britney flashed her knickers and wasn't as modest as she was in comparison to the girl in Kenny's show, then think of how more popular her video would have been! Nowadays camera's seen to shy away when womens underwear is likely to be on screen.

No one will ever get close to the genius that was Kenny Everett.

PS, the woodwork man was called Reg.

gkmacca · 18-11-2005, 00:33

I had a cousin who worked on his radio shows, and he always raved about how much Kenny knew about actually 'making' a radio show. He did all of his own tapes, jingles and sound sketches, spliced stuff together and really created his whole programmes. There was a really awful bloke called Adrian Juste who blatantly imitated Kenny, down to the same kind of archive clips, when Kenny was booted out (yet again) from Radio 1. Then Chris Evans and all the others nicked all of his other innovations and were showered with BAFTAs for doing so. Poor old Kenny, much missed.

lardyda · 18-11-2005, 00:40

Kenny Everett was fabulous on TV and radio. It's hard to believe he's been dead for ten years.

Larry Scutta · 18-11-2005, 00:48

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Originally Posted by Andrew Ayr

I'll never forget his one time exit from BBC Radio 1 which was influenced by something like...

'When Britain was an empire, we had an emporer, when it became a kingdom, we had a king. Now it's country and we have Margaret Thatcher!

Not quite, he was fired from Radio 1 in the early 70's after a news story about the wife of the minister of transport passing her driving test.... he hinted that it was a bit suspicious and she had bribed him to pass. This was many years before Maggie came on the scene, he went off to BBC Local, then Capital Radio, but never made it back to Radio 1

Not sure if its his, but it's a very good line and used these days about Mr Bush!

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PS, the woodwork man was called Reg.

Yep, Reg Prescott.

jenzie · 18-11-2005, 00:51

kenny everett was, and is, a tv hero to me
pure and simple

SteveW2 · 18-11-2005, 01:37

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Originally Posted by Larry Scutta

Not quite, he was fired from Radio 1 in the early 70's after a news story about the wife of the minister of transport passing her driving test.... he hinted that it was a bit suspicious and she had bribed him to pass. This was many years before Maggie came on the scene, he went off to BBC Local, then Capital Radio, but never made it back to Radio 1

You're right he came back on Radio Two, and after that "When England..." joke his contract wasn't renewed

Fizzbin · 18-11-2005, 07:58

The shows repeated on Paramount were his BBC ones I believe. The shows made by Thames have rarely seen the light of day.

of Mayfair: " I fought for people like you..... and I never got one"

I still miss Kenny, even though he did keep eyeing me up in Heaven.

Andrew Ayr · 18-11-2005, 08:12

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Originally Posted by SteveW2

You're right he came back on Radio Two, and after that "When England..." joke his contract wasn't renewed

Sorry about that, right joke, wrong station. I honestly thought he said it on Radio 1. I remember hearing it being said at the time, it was my own memory that got it wrong.

Larry Scutta · 18-11-2005, 09:37

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Originally Posted by Fizzbin

The shows repeated on Paramount were his BBC ones I believe. The shows made by Thames have rarely seen the light of day.

They are the ones on the DVD though.

DenWatts · 18-11-2005, 12:13

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Originally Posted by Larry Scutta

They are the ones on the DVD though.

Honestly?

That's great. I really must get that dvd. He was a genius, a very funny man. And the Thames ones were even funnier as they seemed to let him get away with more than the BBC would - but only just.

I remember being in the cafeteria at work having coffee with a bunch of colleagues. One read from the newspaper that he'd died, and another said it served him right spouting all the usual bigotted reasons.

Everyone was dumbstruck, and with a look of absolute disgust the whole place cleared out and just left her sitting there.

Phil 2804 · 18-11-2005, 12:29

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Originally Posted by ethel_wombat

Little program on Kenny Everett tonight on ITV1. How did they get away with Hot Gossip at 7:00pm?

And I'd forgotten Arlene Phillips was a member the troupe

Because once upon a time ITV was bold and daring and liked to take risks. Then the accountants and caterers took over.

JohnnyMan · 18-11-2005, 12:34

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Originally Posted by Larry Scutta

Not quite, he was fired from Radio 1 in the early 70's after a news story about the wife of the minister of transport passing her driving test.... he hinted that it was a bit suspicious and she had bribed him to pass. This was many years before Maggie came on the scene, he went off to BBC Local, then Capital Radio, but never made it back to Radio 1

Not sure if its his, but it's a very good line and used these days about Mr Bush!

Yep, Reg Prescott.

He did make it back to Radio 1, albeit for only a short time. He did a one hour Sunday lunchtime slot for a while in 1973. The BBC stipulated that the show was pre-recorded so they could vet it. Kenny used to joke that he was recording it at his "hut on the hill" near Llandovery before posting it to Broadcasting House.

The show was replaced by Jimmy Savile's old record club, produced by "Uncle Ted" Beston and again pre-recorded.

occasional post · 18-11-2005, 12:57

It must be the only ITV/BBC show ever that was better on ITV. Everett was outrageous, funny, clever and one of teh funniest men ever. All his shows deserve a repeat on terrestial - but it'll never happen

ToneXIR · 18-11-2005, 13:36

Granada Plus ran about 6 of the ThamesTV shows last year as cut down 30 minute shows, taken from all 4 series (thought the Royston Mayor series 4 produced ones were not as good as the David Mallet 1-3 ones). There were rumors that most of the material he did for Thames had been lost in a fire, don't know if that was true though as there was a lot of stuff shown last night that I hadn't seen since its first run on Mondays at 6.45, so it might still exist. I have about 20 hours of his old '77-'79 Capital shows on tapes that I'm slowly cleaning up and sorting out. Total Genius and the likes of Adrian Juste and Steve Wright could never ever get anywhere close to him, even though in their own minds they thought they could.

The DVD is great by the way, got it last year and has some cracking moments and it's all season 1-3 ones IIRC.

ethel_wombat · 18-11-2005, 13:38

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Originally Posted by Phil 2804

Because once upon a time ITV was bold and daring and liked to take risks. Then the accountants and caterers took over.

I couldn't imagine any TV station in the UK being allowed to transmit Hot Gossip before Corrie these days.

Skytower · 18-11-2005, 16:48

I thought it was a poor choice of host for the programme. Julian Clary - still stuck in his 90's "joke" timewarp and wearing enough make-up to make Barbara Cartland look natural. It took the shine off a programme that should have purely been a clips show, not full of tedious interjections.

SteveW2 · 18-11-2005, 17:29

I didn't think Julian put down Kenny once, well I hardly noticed him
better than Joan last week who was a distraction.

mongosito · 18-11-2005, 21:45

Only the first series of the Thames show was 45 minutes.
ITV ditched the Monday 6.45 slot once occupied by Kenny,Opportunity Knocks,Whodunit? and David Nixon and subsequent Kenny shows were 30 minutes,although PLUS still managed to cut those.But they showed more than 6.I have an SVHS tape of 4 hours from the show off PLUS without ads.But they must have had clearance problems with the music as the episodes were all over the place.Following the Kremmen story was hopeless.
In the early 80's Thorn EMI released 3 VHS tapes for rental lasting between 2 and 3 hours each.Unfortunately the DVD is actually the 2 VHS retail tapes on one disc,and these compilations were not as good as the tapes.
UK Gold gave his BBC series 2 runs.
Once a few months after they started,with almost 10 minutes cut from each one,and a year later I re-recorded them when they showed the lot unedited before late night Dr.Who.
The Paramount ones would have been 40 minutes to be uncut.
A proper dvd release or new tv screening of the Thames series would be most welcome,however I fear the music clearances would be difficult.He did have some hot guests on there

17-11-2005, 23:05	#1
ethel_wombat Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 7,095	Kenny Everett / Hot Gossip Little program on Kenny Everett tonight on ITV1. How did they get away with Hot Gossip at 7:00pm? And I'd forgotten Arlene Phillips was a member the troupe

17-11-2005, 23:21	#2
_the_brain Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London Posts: 893	Kenny Everett was ace! Do you know if there are any plans to repeat his show? Or a DVD of the series? I love that woodworking guy!

17-11-2005, 23:24	#3
ethel_wombat Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 7,095	There's a DVD called "Kenny Everett the complete naughty bits" which is disgustingly cheap if you look on http://www.find-dvd.co.uk

17-11-2005, 23:58	#4
SteveW2 Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Kent, UK Posts: 1,864	loved the clip that Brittany must have copied.

18-11-2005, 00:03	#5
Abraham Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 33	Some time ago I saw a video called Kenny Everitt the complete naughty bits. The thing was it didn't have any (naughty bits). None at all. Not 1. Which I thought was a bit odd, given the title. If this is the dvd release of that video, then I will have done you a favour. Don't bother it's rubbish.

18-11-2005, 00:09	#6
gkmacca Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 6,924	Arlene has aged fairly well. She's sixty now. She looks like she's sat on a sour lemon, but she's aged well nonetheless. Kenny Everett was such a great DJ - ripped off by so many lesser talents - and really good on TV as well.

18-11-2005, 00:17	#7
zoot Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,503	It was really strange -- particularly considering the bitchiness of the host -- to watch a programme so positive, so upbeat and so non-critical of its subject matter. It didn't go down the "tortured homosexual... he laughed to hide the tears" route that I was half-expecting.

18-11-2005, 00:33	#9
gkmacca Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 6,924	I had a cousin who worked on his radio shows, and he always raved about how much Kenny knew about actually 'making' a radio show. He did all of his own tapes, jingles and sound sketches, spliced stuff together and really created his whole programmes. There was a really awful bloke called Adrian Juste who blatantly imitated Kenny, down to the same kind of archive clips, when Kenny was booted out (yet again) from Radio 1. Then Chris Evans and all the others nicked all of his other innovations and were showered with BAFTAs for doing so. Poor old Kenny, much missed.

18-11-2005, 00:40	#10
lardyda Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 886	Kenny Everett was fabulous on TV and radio. It's hard to believe he's been dead for ten years.

18-11-2005, 00:51	#12
jenzie Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: one very messy room :0 Services: VM M-Broadband - sky digital 2mix Posts: 8,251	kenny everett was, and is, a tv hero to me pure and simple

18-11-2005, 07:58	#14
Fizzbin Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Gender: Male Location: East London Posts: 15,097	The shows repeated on Paramount were his BBC ones I believe. The shows made by Thames have rarely seen the light of day. of Mayfair: " I fought for people like you..... and I never got one" I still miss Kenny, even though he did keep eyeing me up in Heaven.

18-11-2005, 12:57	#20
occasional post Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: here again! Posts: 3,261	It must be the only ITV/BBC show ever that was better on ITV. Everett was outrageous, funny, clever and one of teh funniest men ever. All his shows deserve a repeat on terrestial - but it'll never happen

18-11-2005, 13:36	#21
ToneXIR Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: London Services: Sky+ Posts: 2,388	Granada Plus ran about 6 of the ThamesTV shows last year as cut down 30 minute shows, taken from all 4 series (thought the Royston Mayor series 4 produced ones were not as good as the David Mallet 1-3 ones). There were rumors that most of the material he did for Thames had been lost in a fire, don't know if that was true though as there was a lot of stuff shown last night that I hadn't seen since its first run on Mondays at 6.45, so it might still exist. I have about 20 hours of his old '77-'79 Capital shows on tapes that I'm slowly cleaning up and sorting out. Total Genius and the likes of Adrian Juste and Steve Wright could never ever get anywhere close to him, even though in their own minds they thought they could. The DVD is great by the way, got it last year and has some cracking moments and it's all season 1-3 ones IIRC.

18-11-2005, 16:48	#23
Skytower Forum Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Nottingham Services: Sky+ Posts: 91	I thought it was a poor choice of host for the programme. Julian Clary - still stuck in his 90's "joke" timewarp and wearing enough make-up to make Barbara Cartland look natural. It took the shine off a programme that should have purely been a clips show, not full of tedious interjections.

18-11-2005, 17:29	#24
SteveW2 Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Kent, UK Posts: 1,864	I didn't think Julian put down Kenny once, well I hardly noticed him better than Joan last week who was a distraction.

18-11-2005, 21:45	#25
mongosito Banned User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,307	Only the first series of the Thames show was 45 minutes. ITV ditched the Monday 6.45 slot once occupied by Kenny,Opportunity Knocks,Whodunit? and David Nixon and subsequent Kenny shows were 30 minutes,although PLUS still managed to cut those.But they showed more than 6.I have an SVHS tape of 4 hours from the show off PLUS without ads.But they must have had clearance problems with the music as the episodes were all over the place.Following the Kremmen story was hopeless. In the early 80's Thorn EMI released 3 VHS tapes for rental lasting between 2 and 3 hours each.Unfortunately the DVD is actually the 2 VHS retail tapes on one disc,and these compilations were not as good as the tapes. UK Gold gave his BBC series 2 runs. Once a few months after they started,with almost 10 minutes cut from each one,and a year later I re-recorded them when they showed the lot unedited before late night Dr.Who. The Paramount ones would have been 40 minutes to be uncut. A proper dvd release or new tv screening of the Thames series would be most welcome,however I fear the music clearances would be difficult.He did have some hot guests on there