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Tiswas newsTiswas theme night at a pub in the midlands!

At last, Tiswas Night returns! Last year, the Horseshoe Inn in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire played host to a night of comedy, gunge, a bad David Bellamy impersonation, custard pies and soakings.

The same location again this year, we can happily state that Sunday 17th August 2008, is the date where we revive Tiswas for those who remember it, and for those who missed it first time round but just wanna get covered in slop anyway!

The video of last year's event is on YouTube, giving you a taster of what to expect on the night.

We will again have the actual Cage used on Tiswas Reunited, so be prepared for a gunging! Some volunteers have stepped up to be the Phantom Flan Flinger and his wife Flanderella. The event will be hosted by Horseshoe Inn DJ Nick Dexter, and TiswasOnline webmaster Peter Thomas.

Games such as the Phantom Flan Flinger Challenge and the Yes/No game, and sketches such as Compost Corner, will be performed, utilising a number of TiswasOnline forum members and pub regulars.

The address to get to, is a nice lively pub in the east midlands...
The Horseshoe Inn,
36 Sheep Street,
WELLINGBOROUGH,
Northants
NN8 1BS
Google Maps location.

Fun starts at 8pm. A mini-site will be launching soon to promote the event, and we will be doing media publicity too!

- Peter Thomas
21:25 Fri 18 Jul 2008

Tiswas newsChris Tarrant returns to radio (maybe!)

Various rumours have been circulating in the radio industry recently about Chris Tarrant making a return to radio soon.

TiswasOnline recently received the following message: "A little birdie (from a VERY reliable source) tells me Chris Tarrant (allegedly) will turn up on Saturday mornings at SMOOTH - across the network and it could be sooner than you think!"

And then on Monday 30th June 2008, Broadcast (the TV & Radio Industry magazine) reported the following:

    From: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk

    Chris Tarrant is to make a suprise return to radio, hosting a Saturday morning show on the GMG network that will go head to head with Jonathan Ross.

    The Chris Tarrant Show (working title) will mark the presenter's first permanent radio show since leaving Capital Radio in 2004.

    The programme is being lined up to premiere next month and will run from 10am-1pm every Saturday morning, up against Ross on BBC Radio 2. It is understood the show will be broadcast on GMG Radio's Real, Century and Smooth Radio stations.

    The show will be produced by Tarrant's ex-Capital breakfast show producer Sarah-Jane Eddon, managing director of independent cross platform production company Head on Media. A major brand is expected to sponsor the show.

    GMG declined to comment.

We'll try and keep an eye on these developments... if the new show (if it happens, and it looks like it might) is anything like his long-running Capital Radio programme, then listeners in the Real Radio, Century and Smooth Radio areas have a real treat in store!

To see if you are in one of these areas, take a look at http://www.gmgradio.co.uk/

- Lee Bannister
09:20 Tue 01 Jul 2008

Tiswas newsTiswas in the media again

First of all, let's get that abominal Top 50 TV Endings from Sky One out of the way. Tiswas' ending did get a mention, and aired for literally seconds, while the more familiar clips did the rounds.

The full list...
50) TOP OF THE POPS
49) ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE
48) CROSSROADS
47) CORONATION STREET (Mike Baldwin)
46 and 45) TISWAS and SW*P SH*P
That was the on-screen caption, while Cilla said [i)"Sw*p Sh*p and Tiswas"[/i). Happily ambiguous, and both shows have their endings shown in mere several-second snippets, as more familiar clips are there. As I discussed before, the Tiswas ending you see here, is from Chris Tarrant's final show ( http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IGxpPVwKHuU ), and was NOT the real last Saturday morning Tiswas ( http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_XMOTB5O394 ). Nope, despite me giving both recordings out, and the full story of this, they pretended they had shown the last Tiswas, and it was Sw*p Sh*p that lasted another year (in actuality, ending roughly the same time as Tiswas did). No mentions of the ITV Telethon 88 reunion, nor Tiswas Reunited.
44) JUST GOOD FRIENDS
43) MOONLIGHTING
42) GOLD BLEND
41) ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS
40) DYNASTY
39) CORONATION STREET (Vera Duckworth)
38) FRASIER
37) HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
36) BEVERLY HILLS 90210
35) FAST SHOW (Ted and Ralph)
34) 24
33) ELDORADO
32) DOCTOR WHO (Tom Baker)
31) NOEL'S HOUSE PARTY
30) CORONATION STREET (Alan Bradley)
29) DINNERLADIES
28) BLAKES 7
27) QUEER AS FOLK
26) POP IDOL (Will/Gareth)
25) MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE
24) FOOTBALLERS' WIVES
23) PORRIDGE
22) THIS MORNING (Richard and Judy)
21) TWIN PEAKS
20) NEIGHBOURS (Charlene leaves)
19) THE YOUNG ONES
18) CHEERS
17) EASTENDERS (Sharon's marriage)
16) BROOKSIDE
15) BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
14) INSPECTOR MORSE
13) THE VICAR OF DIBLEY
12) EMMERDALE (plane crash)
11) THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MIRIAM
10) CORONATION STREET (Hilda Ogden)
9) BLACKADDER
8) LOST (Charlie Pace)
7) THE OFFICE
6) M*A*S*H
5) BLIND DATE
4) THE ROYLE FAMILY
3) COLD FEET
2) ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES
1) LIFE ON MARS

Last week, the Phantom Flan Flinger and Tiswas itself, were in the news vaguely. This website managed to get four volunteers in to represent Tiswas at the World Custard Pie Championships in Detling, near Maidstone in Kent. I was dressed as Bob Carolgees' alter-ego Houdi-Elbow, two of us were Phantom Flan Flingers, and forum regular Jonathan Davis was Chris Tarrant. We got ourselves on ITV Meridian, BBC1, CBBC, the Sun newspaper, an American NBC affiliate and a Chinese TV channel called New Tang Dynasty.

Our video of the day is now on YouTube, featuring some of the BBC/ITV footage too...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=71GBhkqjaqM (part 1)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EE4GCV8lF8c (part 2)

- Peter Thomas
07:57 Tue 24 Jun 2008

Tiswas newsNew magazine featuring Tiswas and Matthew Butler

Dennis Publishing, makers of such diverse magazines as Computer Shopper, Viz, Fortean Times, Bizarre... amongst many others, has published another title in its popular 'bookazine' series (the 'bookazine' format is a softback magazine-sized publication with a lot more content, approaching the amount you'd find in a book, hence the hybrid decription!)

"Celebrate The 80s" is a compendium of popular culture from the 1980s, featuring the most popular films, computer games, music and television of the decade.

A 4 page section is devoted to Saturday Morning television, with the first 2-page spread almost exclusively featuring Tiswas! There's even a shot of Matthew Butler as he appeared on Tiswas Reunited in 2007!! Most of the other Saturday Morning Television programmes are also featured... but we know you're not bothered about them!

Nice to see that TiswasOnline appears to have been consulted for some of the information in the article, as well as the Tiswas logo that appears on the page too - we provided ITV with a remastered version during 2007 (which was used on the set of Tiswas Reunited) and it looks to be that one being used here [lowers own trumpet, having been blown proudly!!]

"Celebrate The 80s" is available from most newsagents and supermarkets (on the magazine stands), from Dennis Publishing, £7.99

Edited 10:49 Tue 17 Jun 2008

- Lee Bannister
09:51 Mon 16 Jun 2008

Tiswas newsA bit of the final Tiswas on Sky this Sunday, possibly...

Cilla Black hosts Top 50 TV Endings 9pm this Sunday on Sky One, which is set to have material from Tiswas somewhere in it.

How do we know this? Well, we're the ones who provided the footage to producers Scarlet Television, when they couldn't locate any from ITV, the BFI or anywhere else! As well as the final show, we also sent along Chris Tarrant's final edition.

Bob Carolgees has recorded a piece for the show. Sky One is a channel available in the UK and Ireland, on the Sky Digital and Tiscali TV platforms.

- Peter Thomas
00:19 Tue 03 Jun 2008

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