Post by the Scribe on May 18, 2021 0:51:25 GMT
Hot Gossip (1974–1986) were a British dance troupe, who made television appearances and in 1978 backed Sarah Brightman on her single, "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper".
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The Kenny Everett Video Show (later renamed The Kenny Everett Video Cassette) was a groundbreaking British television comedy programme made by Thames Television for ITV from 3 July 1978 to 21 May 1981.
Conception
Phillip Jones, the then head of light entertainment, asked his son who he'd like to see on television, and he said Kenny Everett. The format for the show came from David Mallet having lunch with Kenny, going for a walk in the afternoon, and during those 3 or 4 hours they both discovered that you could not watch on television the sort of things they wanted to watch. The original conception was that Everett would be a visual DJ linking bands and singers and the links eventually got longer and longer.
The Video Show was also noteworthy in that the sketches were performed to the studio crew and technicians with their laughter heard on the finished programme, unlike the later BBC series The Kenny Everett Television Show which used a live audience.
Two pilot episodes were made, which are believed to no longer exist.
more: (he had some great musical guests)
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYFevGV-o_oKhyhafeHq1m2gyozAAoMrM
www.youtube.com/channel/UCjR-G_fQjAkD2JmuPOBN2Xw