Talk:Not the Nine O'Clock News

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Article milestones Date Process Result December 15, 2003 Featured article candidate Promoted May 10, 2005 Featured article review Kept February 12, 2006 Featured article review Demoted Current Status: Former featured article

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Contents 1 older entries 2 Page move 3 FARC 4 Philip Pope 5 "Nice Video (Shame About the Song)", 6 Poodle that can tap dance 7 Fair use rationale for Image:Notthenine002.jpg 8 Fair use rationale for Image:Notthenine001.jpg 9 Sketches 10 Fair use rationale for Image:Not-the-Nine-Oclock-News.jpg

[edit] older entries

It would have been interesting to hear from someone who has bought or otherwise seen the DVD, about whether or not the DVD release is simply the same as one or the other of the VHS releases? It sounds like it, from what I'm reading at the review comments on Amazon. Mortene 19:46, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Page move

I am going to move this page to Not the Nine O'clock News (lower case 'C'). This may or may not be the correct way of capitalising o'clock but it is the way it was done: [1] [2].. ed g2s • talk 18:39, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I've actually moved it back, as per the second link; perhaps in the intervening months the BBC altered it, but the BBC's article uses 'The' (grammatically, it makes a certain amount of sense - the programme is "Not The Nine O'Clock News").-Ashley Pomeroy 11:55, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] FARC

Well, it needs a decent lead section and some references. There is little discussion of the creation of the show, and no mention at all of the first rather unfunny pilot episode (is this the one with the John Cleese sketch mentioned - this page explains is much better). Pamela's rather groundbreaking role also should be highlighted, and there is no mention of the US spinoff. There was a recent Comedy Connections with much more detail, including the rather incestuous professional relationships between the actors, but unfortunately nothing here. -- ALoan (Talk) 18:10, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

{{sofixit}}. Comments welcome. -- ALoan (Talk) 13:50, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Philip Pope

Was he really the musical director, or is someone getting this mixed up with Radio Active? He was certainly involved with the stage show but I thought Howard Goodall was musical director on the actual series. --Bonalaw 11:56, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Nice Video (Shame About the Song)",

Was there a specific pop group/video that this was parodying, or was it just 1980s pop music and videos in general? Rob 17:13, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

No idea - but IIRC they pretended that spoof video was by a band called Lufthansa Terminal

The title is derived from "Nice Legs (Shame About Her Face)", a UK hit for The Monks. Everything else is, I believe, a general pastiche of early 80s pop music and videos. --Bonalaw 08:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poodle that can tap dance

Am trying to get a transcript of a sketch that parodied the respective weightings that the news gave to various nationalities during natural disasters. It basically consisted of a faux BBC presenter reading out a list of natural distasters around the world ordering the deceased in national importance with a disclaimer of "fortunately no Britons were killed", and ending with "But never to worry because in <<Insert small British town here>> there is a Poodle that can tap dance. Anyone remember it?

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Notthenine002.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Notthenine001.jpg

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[edit] Sketches

There were some significant sketches. For instance I seem to recall seeing one of the Abba members commenting that they were devastated by the Abba spoof, and the Darts sketch is sometimes credited (rather fancifully, I think) with driving the final nail into the coffin of the credibility of Darts as a televised sport. However the "Memorable sketches" section was simply a collection of cruft, so I've removed it. --Tony Sidaway 19:44, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Not-the-Nine-Oclock-News.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 15:19, 8 March 2008 (UTC)