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Post by cperry on Jul 15, 2009 6:49:00 GMT
Hi people
For those posters with long memories, Raiders of the Lost Archives finally gets shown starting next Tuesday evening 21st July at 10.35pm. You can finally see the two untransmitted shows. :-)
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Post by LanceM on Jul 15, 2009 6:56:27 GMT
That is great news indeed! Great to hear these will finally be screened!
Cheers,Lance.
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Post by Andy Howells on Jul 15, 2009 7:41:31 GMT
Amazing to think that such a series almost became lost itself... lost to the schedulers that is! Would be great if ITV started showing some of these recoveries in their entirety but this is a start...
Can't wait!
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Post by cperry on Jul 15, 2009 7:51:47 GMT
Shows two and three are the best, though still poorly made by ITV in my opinion. Too many trails and silly inserts.
But Morecambe and Wise, Bill Oddie, Noddy Holder and Johnny Briggs are well worth watching. Some good clips.
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Post by Rich Cornock on Jul 15, 2009 16:21:55 GMT
any idea why the delay in broadcast? shame its on so late, a lot of people who may have missing tv in their loft may have switched off by then
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Post by cperry on Jul 16, 2009 6:31:31 GMT
ITV showed very little interest in the campaign to find lost TV, leaving us to do all the running around and answering of emails. I remember a great meeting where the director told us to find some lost Crossroads on an oil rig so she could get great shots of a helicopter winching up the prints! Simon and I just thought she was mad. We tried to explain that finding lost telly is not like Indiana Jones.
The shows lost their direction - you'll know after you watch them which bits were part of our brief; and which bits ITV sixth floor added to make the show 'funny' and 'lightweight'. We pitched it as a Factual Show and yet ITV wanted it to be Light Entertainment and dumbed it down.
Everyone was unhappy with it, and then to cap it all ITV said it didn't fit the demographic for their audience profile so it was pulled. It's being shown now coz it's cheap to show at a time when ITV are commissioning very little.
The actual interviews are very good and if you dodge the 'funny' clips you'll see that a lot of serious research went into finding the clips. Hats off to Camilla who was a great researcher/Assistant Producer to work with. She works for G.O.L.D. now.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jul 16, 2009 8:10:38 GMT
Sorry to sound dumb - but can you confirm exactly when this is showing and what time and what channel. Just so I DON'T miss it! Thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2009 8:57:51 GMT
It's all at the top of this thread, Ray!
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Post by Rich Cornock on Jul 16, 2009 8:59:13 GMT
Tuesday evening 21st July at 10.35pm. itv
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jul 16, 2009 12:03:10 GMT
Thanks guys!
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Post by Rich Cornock on Jul 17, 2009 18:09:11 GMT
will these programs accompany a renewed appeal from itv for the return of missing tv programs. it seems too good an opportunity to miss, i think when the 1st program was shown there was a dedicated raiders of the lost archives web page.
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Post by LanceM on Jul 18, 2009 5:33:56 GMT
I agree with Rich on this one, is far too good of an opportunity to miss. Of course, if it is too late now, so it goes. But would think it a worthy attempt to see that some sort of plea/mentioning for further material might be in order, given the overall nature of the program.
Cheers,Lance.
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Post by cperry on Jul 18, 2009 9:38:21 GMT
You miss the point Rich and Lance.
This series isn't being shown because ITV want to find lost telly. It's a cheap late night filler for the schedules.
I think the clue was when I said the entire production team is redundant lol. Who will run the campaign?
Even in 2006 it was left to Kal to finish off the campaign. We were the only guys who actually told the Archives this campaign had started. ITV didn't even email its own archive lol. Dick Fiddy and I got the BBC, Thames etc involved to give the campaign some real meaning.
We returned what we found, but the Production Office was there to make programmes, not preserve history.
Lots of good came out of Raiders, but ITV have no plans to do it again. :-( In a recession, restoration and preservation are not commercial propositions sadly.
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Post by Rich Cornock on Jul 18, 2009 10:50:46 GMT
point taken but is there any way of getting some Kals contact details run with the end credits or something. guess its probably too late now but it would be good if something came out of it.
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Post by cperry on Jul 18, 2009 14:26:22 GMT
Sadly, like I said. All redundant. No one making the programme, it's just off a shelf and on telly. :-(
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