When I saw this documentary programme advertised, I recognised a good number of the clips being shown that would be included, and I had my guesses of what else may be included, so I was really looking forward to watching. Basically the show was a three hour collection of live and pre-recorded television fails, mistakes, technical errors, meltdowns and unexpected, all caught on camera, and many broadcast to millions of viewers in Britain and/or around the world.
Entertainment television blunders included: Bobby Davro in stocks and falling face first onto a studio floor; Richard Hammond crashing a jet-powered car at 370mph on Top Gear; and Olly Murs accidentally revealing a contestant leaving before Deadlock on The X Factor. Singing performances gone wrong included: Cheryl Cole not singing live until the middle of her song "Call My Name" on Stand Up to Cancer; Bananarama singing "Robert De Niro's Waiting" live on The Rube, but with feedback on their microphones; Owen Paul not miming to his song "My Favourite Waste of Time" while it played on Pebble Mill at One; lead singer of All About Eve missing her cue to mime to "Martha's Harbour", only doing so in the middle; Kym Mazelle and Jocelyn Brown singing live at an airfield on GMTV, but only the music was heard; and Jemini singing out of tune and in the wrong key on Eurovision Song Contest 2003, becoming the first British act to score "nil points". Live television competition mistakes included: Sir Terry Wogan announcing the wrong winner and Fearne Cotton saying the correct at the same time, causing confusion on Making Your Mind Up; Australia's Next Top Model host Sarah Murdoch announcing the wrong winner and moments later apologising and embarrassed for her mistake; and Steve Harvey reading and announcing the first runner-up rather than the winner of Miss Universe. Showbiz interviews failing included: Michael Parkinson and his awkward interview with Meg Ryan; Channel 4 News journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy interviewing Quentin Tarantino and Robert Downey Jr., Tarantino refused his question and replied "I'm shutting your butt down", while Downey Jr. walked out; and Samuel L. Jackson mistaken for Laurence Fishburne in an interview by Sam Reuben on KTLA. People getting angry on TV included: Sweeney going nuts on Panorama talking to Scientologists, auditionees Ablisa on The X Factor, and one of the duo punching the other in the face; a viral video from Jordanian TV network 7 Stars where furious men take then desk apart; Michael Crick hit on the head by Godfrey Bloom with a conference brochure; and Michael Crick was also interrupted live by someone during a speech by Boris Johnson. News broadcast calamities included: Guy Goma mistaken for Guy Kewney live on BBC News 24; WGN Morning News with "breaking news" of a plane crash on a road, but in fact the "crash scene" was being filmed for television; Gordon Brown caught with his microphone left on calling Gillian Duffy a "bigoted woman"; Prince Charles in Cloysters caught on microphone calling Nicholas Witchell "awful", Prince Charles's press secretary taking a microphone cover off from Michael Crick; and the 1988 Six O'Clock News with Nicholas Witchell and Sue Lawley invaded by lesbian protesters. Swearing, drunken behaviour and TV to make rating which caused chaos included: Matt Bianco called "wankers" by a prank caller on Saturday Superstore live; Five Star, with Sarah Greene, called "fucking crap" by prank caller Eliot Fletcher on Going Live; Shaun Rider swears twice on TFI Friday and gets banned from Channel 4; David Cassidy drunk and talking about his divorce and bankruptcy on This Morning; Oliver Reed drunk and asked to leave After Dark after kissing Kate Millett; George Best drunk on Wogan; and This Morning showing a live vasectomy. Unexpected TV events included: BBC News 2003 with John Simpson cover the Iraq War during bombing and friendly fire; the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, where the NASA orbiter, carrying selected school teacher Christa McAuliffe, exploded seconds after take-off; and Tommy Cooper dying from a heart attack on Live from Her Majesty's. Television continuity errors and link ups included: Zoë Ball talking to One Direction in Los Angeles on the Doctor Who After Party Live, with a long broadcast time delay and echoing dialogue; BBC News covering Barack Obama and David Cameron in Downing Street live, it is interrupted by bizarre footage on an empty studio chair and desk with old children's TV sound clips playing; continuity announcer Tom Edwards fills 5 minutes while the BBC try to broadcast What's My Line?; and Anthea Turner blown up on Up2U live. Autocue and weather report rubbish included: TEN Eyewitness News Adelaide newsreader Nick Butler 2014 had no auto-cue, auto-cue failing for Graham Norton on Your Country Needs You, Jeremy Corbyn reading a stage direction on auto-cue; in 1987 weatherman Michael Fish saying there isn't a hurricane on the way, the following day the South of England is hit by the worst storm (high-force winds) for decades; and weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker swearing with middle finger on BBC News live.
I had my guesses what TV incidents and programmes would be included, the funny ones and the awkward ones, I always enjoy the nostalgia seeing these moments again, but I wasn't expecting to see human tragedies as well, it was good to learn about the serious stuff I have only heard about, overall it was a most interesting and highly watchable documentary.
Narrated by Sarah Greene, with contributions from Jemini's Gemma Abbey, Stefania Aleksander, Stephen Bailey, Charlie Baker, Angela Barnes, Lionel Blair, Michael Buerk, Michael Crick, Lizzie Cundy, Bobby Davro, Anne Diamond, Daryl Easlea, Michael Fish, Fame Academy's Carrie Grant, Hattie Hayridge, Zoe Howe, John Kettley, Helen Lederer, Balls of Steel's Ross Lee, Zoe Lyons, Kym Mazelle, David Mills, Shazia Mirza, Patrick Monahan, Dermot Murnaghan, Nina Myskow, Cathy Newman, Joe Pasquale, Owen Paul, Ashley Pearson, Jenny Powell, Paul Ross, Scooch (Caroline Barnes and Russ Spencer), Greg Scott, Vikki Stone, John Sweeney, Anthea Turner, Toyah Willcox and Jon Wise. Very good!
Entertainment television blunders included: Bobby Davro in stocks and falling face first onto a studio floor; Richard Hammond crashing a jet-powered car at 370mph on Top Gear; and Olly Murs accidentally revealing a contestant leaving before Deadlock on The X Factor. Singing performances gone wrong included: Cheryl Cole not singing live until the middle of her song "Call My Name" on Stand Up to Cancer; Bananarama singing "Robert De Niro's Waiting" live on The Rube, but with feedback on their microphones; Owen Paul not miming to his song "My Favourite Waste of Time" while it played on Pebble Mill at One; lead singer of All About Eve missing her cue to mime to "Martha's Harbour", only doing so in the middle; Kym Mazelle and Jocelyn Brown singing live at an airfield on GMTV, but only the music was heard; and Jemini singing out of tune and in the wrong key on Eurovision Song Contest 2003, becoming the first British act to score "nil points". Live television competition mistakes included: Sir Terry Wogan announcing the wrong winner and Fearne Cotton saying the correct at the same time, causing confusion on Making Your Mind Up; Australia's Next Top Model host Sarah Murdoch announcing the wrong winner and moments later apologising and embarrassed for her mistake; and Steve Harvey reading and announcing the first runner-up rather than the winner of Miss Universe. Showbiz interviews failing included: Michael Parkinson and his awkward interview with Meg Ryan; Channel 4 News journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy interviewing Quentin Tarantino and Robert Downey Jr., Tarantino refused his question and replied "I'm shutting your butt down", while Downey Jr. walked out; and Samuel L. Jackson mistaken for Laurence Fishburne in an interview by Sam Reuben on KTLA. People getting angry on TV included: Sweeney going nuts on Panorama talking to Scientologists, auditionees Ablisa on The X Factor, and one of the duo punching the other in the face; a viral video from Jordanian TV network 7 Stars where furious men take then desk apart; Michael Crick hit on the head by Godfrey Bloom with a conference brochure; and Michael Crick was also interrupted live by someone during a speech by Boris Johnson. News broadcast calamities included: Guy Goma mistaken for Guy Kewney live on BBC News 24; WGN Morning News with "breaking news" of a plane crash on a road, but in fact the "crash scene" was being filmed for television; Gordon Brown caught with his microphone left on calling Gillian Duffy a "bigoted woman"; Prince Charles in Cloysters caught on microphone calling Nicholas Witchell "awful", Prince Charles's press secretary taking a microphone cover off from Michael Crick; and the 1988 Six O'Clock News with Nicholas Witchell and Sue Lawley invaded by lesbian protesters. Swearing, drunken behaviour and TV to make rating which caused chaos included: Matt Bianco called "wankers" by a prank caller on Saturday Superstore live; Five Star, with Sarah Greene, called "fucking crap" by prank caller Eliot Fletcher on Going Live; Shaun Rider swears twice on TFI Friday and gets banned from Channel 4; David Cassidy drunk and talking about his divorce and bankruptcy on This Morning; Oliver Reed drunk and asked to leave After Dark after kissing Kate Millett; George Best drunk on Wogan; and This Morning showing a live vasectomy. Unexpected TV events included: BBC News 2003 with John Simpson cover the Iraq War during bombing and friendly fire; the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, where the NASA orbiter, carrying selected school teacher Christa McAuliffe, exploded seconds after take-off; and Tommy Cooper dying from a heart attack on Live from Her Majesty's. Television continuity errors and link ups included: Zoë Ball talking to One Direction in Los Angeles on the Doctor Who After Party Live, with a long broadcast time delay and echoing dialogue; BBC News covering Barack Obama and David Cameron in Downing Street live, it is interrupted by bizarre footage on an empty studio chair and desk with old children's TV sound clips playing; continuity announcer Tom Edwards fills 5 minutes while the BBC try to broadcast What's My Line?; and Anthea Turner blown up on Up2U live. Autocue and weather report rubbish included: TEN Eyewitness News Adelaide newsreader Nick Butler 2014 had no auto-cue, auto-cue failing for Graham Norton on Your Country Needs You, Jeremy Corbyn reading a stage direction on auto-cue; in 1987 weatherman Michael Fish saying there isn't a hurricane on the way, the following day the South of England is hit by the worst storm (high-force winds) for decades; and weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker swearing with middle finger on BBC News live.
I had my guesses what TV incidents and programmes would be included, the funny ones and the awkward ones, I always enjoy the nostalgia seeing these moments again, but I wasn't expecting to see human tragedies as well, it was good to learn about the serious stuff I have only heard about, overall it was a most interesting and highly watchable documentary.
Narrated by Sarah Greene, with contributions from Jemini's Gemma Abbey, Stefania Aleksander, Stephen Bailey, Charlie Baker, Angela Barnes, Lionel Blair, Michael Buerk, Michael Crick, Lizzie Cundy, Bobby Davro, Anne Diamond, Daryl Easlea, Michael Fish, Fame Academy's Carrie Grant, Hattie Hayridge, Zoe Howe, John Kettley, Helen Lederer, Balls of Steel's Ross Lee, Zoe Lyons, Kym Mazelle, David Mills, Shazia Mirza, Patrick Monahan, Dermot Murnaghan, Nina Myskow, Cathy Newman, Joe Pasquale, Owen Paul, Ashley Pearson, Jenny Powell, Paul Ross, Scooch (Caroline Barnes and Russ Spencer), Greg Scott, Vikki Stone, John Sweeney, Anthea Turner, Toyah Willcox and Jon Wise. Very good!
