TFI Friday Channel 4 Return

James2016

So the Friday night show with Chris Evans and will is back for a one off on the 12th June at 9pm! Should be interesting! Maybe Shaun Ryder will make a guest appearance!

Welsh Megaman

Wiiiiiiiiiiil.

Wiiiiiiiiiiil.

Get the Longpigs and Northern Uproar to perform too - tonight we're gonna party like it's 1996!

fryup

will they be doing ugly bloke and fat lookalikes ??

Atlantic Dawn

Looking forward to this, it was a strange time it went out originally 6pm on a Friday, not sure if that slot would work again. I also miss The Word, I believe there is definitely a gap in the market for a cross between these 2 shows on a Friday evening around 10pm or so.

Just looking at the Wikipedia page, the regular features are bringing back some memories...

• Freak or Unique – Every week, there would be five people waiting outside the studio, of whom three would be selected to show off a special if freakish talent (such as juicing an orange with their shoulders, or drinking milk which they then forced out of their tear ducts). A running gag throughout the run was the 'Incredibly Tall Old Lady' who would always be waiting outside the studio. She was never nominated (mainly because it was obviously an old woman standing on a box)
• Baby Left Baby Right: A small child was placed on a cushion and the guest was asked which way it might fall
• Fat lookalikes – People who looked like fat versions of celebrities which was then followed in later series by Asian lookalikes
• What Does the Fat Bloke Do? – An overweight man was invited on set and asked about his occupation, before dancing and leaving
• Comment from the Cafe – Evans would rope in Cedric (the proprietor of a local eatery) to perform various embarrassing skits. Cedric became famous for his catchphrase "Hellooooooooo!" and wooden acting
• Ugly Blokes – Unattractive gentlemen would have the opportunity to turn down the amorous advances of a 'gorgeous girl' (Catalina Guirado). A photo of footballer Peter Beardsley was shown during the 'Ugly Bloke' theme tune
• It's Your Letters – A wide assortment of viewers' letters (this was introduced by a burst of Reef's "Place Your Hands", re-recorded for the show with the words "It's Your Letters" replacing the original chorus of "Put our hands on").
• Fishbowl Challenge: A goldfish in a bowl would have two toy bridges for company. Which would it swim under first?
• Another running gag was directed at the show's producer, Will MacDonald (aka Wicked Will of MTV's Most Wanted fame), where everyone in the bar would point their fingers, begin to swivel them and chant 'Wiiillll' very creepily
• Will: Pub Genius – Will MacDonald would demonstrate a trick that could be performed using tools commonly found in a pub
• Wooden Bird with Purple Hair – Chris Evans would amuse the audience with a small nodding wooden woodpecker (with purple hair), that slid down a pole whilst an accompanying song was played.
• The Lord of Love – The veteran actor Ronald Fraser dressed in a quilted smoking jacket would recite love poems to girls in the audience.
• Wurthers – The shows cue card man. He became a frequent star of the show alongside Chris, during the last series of the show in which he was host. At the start of every show, they would both engage in telling a joke working alongside each other, with Wurthers finishing the joke with "I'm only joking of course!", with Chris then replying "He's only joking of course!". This became a frequent running gag before eventually fading out, with this being replaced with Chris sending Wurthers out on a task. The first and most memorable of these was sending him outside to look for a mini driver, while it was raining. Near the end of the show he found one and told her to say hello to the actor Minnie Driver, by waving at the camera who was at the same time being interviewed on the show with David Duchovny. The segment was originally a one-off, before being made a regular feature on the show.
• Show Us Your Face Then – someone in a football mascot outfit is introduced to the audience and invited to show them their real face.
• Sink or Swim – The studio audience (and viewers) were invited to speculate as to whether a chosen animal (e.g. a mouse or a snake) would sink or swim in a fishtank. To gasps of concern from the audience, the mouse turned out to be a good swimmer.

Harry Palmr

The best moment in TFI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1JG-kEDZTw

There would be outrage if that happened now!

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Wiiiiiiiiiiil.

Wiiiiiiiiiiil.

Get the Longpigs and Northern Uproar to perform too - tonight we're gonna party like it's 1996!

Oh yeah!

Silversun and Shed Seven, Cast and Ocean Colour Scene, too, lovely stuff.

TFI was great in its day. Chris Evans lost the plot after a few years but it was great in the first few years.

Hard to know if a revival will get any traction, but it's got to be worth at least one more go, a one show show for old times sake can't be all bad. Lets not remember Chris Evans' OFI Sunday on ITV in 2005, that was crap.

ThisRegard

Reading that Wiki summary you realise how great TFI Friday was, it was hilarious and had some brilliant musical performances.

Atlantic Dawn

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The best moment in TFI

There would be outrage if that happened now!

Especially on a show going out at 6pm

Welsh Megaman

ThisRegard wrote: »

Reading that Wiki summary you realise how great TFI Friday was, it was hilarious and had some brilliant musical performances.

For better or for worse, it was the Britpop equivalent of 'Ready, Steady, Go' in the 60's - almost every band of that era performed on the show at least once. TFI definitely captured the mood at the time that Britain was great at everything.

FloatingVoter

...Jeremy Clarkson is looking for work. One day a week...get up the noses of muppets and collect shedloads of cash. Can't go wrong.

mailforkev

Used to love this back in the day, I would have been mid teens at the time.

Also used to be a big fan of the original Ray Cokes MTV Most Wanted around the same time. That was a great show, in the days when MTV was a decent channel.

efb

Time passed. Move on

FloatingVoter

mailforkev wrote: »

Used to love this back in the day, I would have been mid teens at the time.

Also used to be a big fan of the original Ray Cokes MTV Most Wanted around the same time. That was a great show, in the days when MTV was a decent channel.

^ The number of people who have made serious cash ripping off Ray Cokes. Them were the days.

Harry Palmr

Ray Cokes what a name. He always looks like he'd had a sniff or two

FloatingVoter

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Ray Cokes what a name. He always looks like he'd had a sniff or two

....I was just watching him again on YouTube...I'd embed some but to our younger viewers....tap "Ray Cokes" into the search bar. The guy made Gerry Ryan look like an amateur.

Still big in Belgium apparently which is the first thing that has ever made me want to emigrate to Belgium.

James2016

Just been looking at some videos on YouTube on Chris Evans channel. In order to get in the audience you have to make a clip of wild and random things! Some really funny ones ha

Skid X

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-05-31/blur-and-liam-gallagher-join-chris-evans-for-tfi-friday-special

https://twitter.com/achrisevans/status/604560262524510208

Looks like a busy show! Looking forward to it.

Welsh Megaman

Now all we need is Johnny Boy Revell on The Wheels Of Steel, and we are good to go

Harry Palmr

Line up announced!

Blur
Liam Gallagher
Rodger Daltrey
Mani (The Stone Roses)
Ian Broude (The Lightening Seeds)
Rudimental
Zac Starkey
Shaun Ryder

Its like the last 20 years never happened!

Basq

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this!

Holy. Shit. That's a pretty impressive lineup.

Welsh Megaman

To get us in the mood for the main event on Friday, I thought it would be a good idea to post some music from the era

Let's start with the obvious...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brzzM31G4x8

Now let's go for...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VED67gUNXM

Harry Palmr

I think the Lightning Seeds were the favourite Brit-pop type act overall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLhYF4tTRAE

Welsh Megaman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJEyKr7J0Wc

And adjust volume to maximum for this...


https://vimeo.com/85907062

Atlantic Dawn

Jeremy Clarkson to be on too...

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/08/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-chris-evans-tfi-friday-bbc

Skid X

Silversun - I'll See You Around, preceded by some trademark Chris Evans whimsy.

Marvellous.

Welsh Megaman

A band whose career was completely revived by Evans...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y411Wggex4c

Oh, and lest we forget...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bYj2o7y4rk

Skid X

I was thinking about a TFI incident mentioned in both Chris Evans' and Danny Baker's autobiographies where they blew over £56,000 on a single gag. They flew Evans and his crew to New York on Concorde to hand deliver a script to John Cleese, ahead of his appearance on the show. When they got there, Cleese had left for Paris, so they got another Concorde to Paris

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1214642/The-expensive-joke-history-light-entertainment-How-Chris-Evans-blew-56k-stunt-went-wrong.html

There was only one aircraft in the world more glamorous than the British Airways Concorde, and that was the Air France Concorde. In their wisdom, the French had taken out several rows of seats so there was more room and comfort for the supersonic commuter.

As we approached Paris, we turned our attentions once again to 'the most expensive joke in the history of light entertainment television' and the great John Cleese, who was staying at a hotel in Paris - except he wasn't. We were told curtly that Monsieur Cleese had just checked out and was currently on his way back to London to appear on a television show.

The thing is, they hardly mentioned it in the interview (clip below). After wasting that much money you would think they would have dragged it out a bit longer. You would never get anything like that anymore, the show must have been making a fortune. It's no wonder he lost touch with reality.

Welsh Megaman

Mancunian swagger!

At least one band member wearing a kagoul!

How-Now-Brown-Cow lyrics!

I am, of course, referring to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsGWc5-htbo

And my personal favourite band of the era...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G85L4TjTPv8

ahlookit

No Longpigs revival yet then?

Damn...

https:// www. youtube.com/watch?v=8STJ0O4DbfQ

(cant link due to post count)

Skid X

It's Your Letters! It's Your Letters!

ThisRegard

Watching that Reef video I see a pop up telling you it's from TFI Friday the album on iTunes. Checked out Spotify and it's there too. That's my playlist sorted for the afternoon !

Welsh Megaman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyN2I-TlyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epqZrkxZ3_o

Is this a once off or will it be making regular appearances? The way the TV advertisements are portraying it, it seems to be a regular thing.

Basq

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Is this a once off or will it be making regular appearances? The way the TV advertisements are portraying it, it seems to be a regular thing.

I believe it's a one-off with the potential for a series later in the year.

Welsh Megaman

Will Jimmy 'Five Bellies' Gardner make an appearance?

Addle

So excited about this show.
So much hype though, hope it doesn't disappoint.

drugstore cowboy

Wish Liam sings something besides My Generation tonight. Oasis played it to death and he sung it with The Who not so long ago!

Harry Palmr

Anyone know if Danny Baker is involved this time?

Skid X

I'd say there must be a fair chance that it won't be a one off, if the show is a success tonight

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/12/chris-evans-tfi-friday-20th-anniversary-show-jeremy-clarkson

TFI Friday, which first aired in 1996, is returning a year early for its 20th anniversary owing to a “clerical error”. Industry sources said it would be a “no-brainer” for Channel 4 to commission a new series if the live 90-minute special goes down well with viewers.

But much will depend on Evans who described the anniversary show as “closure” but has also said TFI Friday was “eminently doable, forever”, adding: “Television renaissances do work.”

A new series would be problematic for the BBC, as Evans, the Radio 2 breakfast host with nearly 10 million listeners a week, co-presents the Friday night edition of The One Show on BBC1 (from which he has been given the night off).

But if that doesn't happen, it'll be good to relive the glory days and put some closure on it. Chris Evans didn't even bother presenting the final TFI series, he got a succession of guest presenters to fill in. A great show deserved better than that.

Skid X

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Anyone know if Danny Baker is involved this time?

Very much so, Harry.

https://twitter.com/prodnose/status/609101350178316288


Cradle to Grave is the BBC adaptation of his first autobiograpy, starring Peter Kay as his Dad. Looking forward to that.

PLL

Skid X wrote: »

It's Your Letters! It's Your Letters!

I was only 9 when this aired but I remember it, and watching this makes me miss 90's britpop. A much better time for music.

James2016

Anyone know of any live TV streams to watch it online?

Mr E

No steam talk allowed here, sorry.... see charter.

mikom

Mr E wrote: »

No steam talk allowed here, sorry.... see charter.

But there is a sale on....

Harry Palmr

Watch it as legally as you like live using filmon.com

Welsh Megaman

*orders six-pack of Red Stripe*

SEPT 23 1989

the E has been sorted

zarquon

Mr E wrote: »

No steam talk allowed here, sorry.... see charter.

But this is free to air in Ireland already so streaming is ok. In fact i think c4 have a live stream on their website which just requires a registered account

Welsh Megaman

Noelrock red alert

Skid X

Nearly TFI O'Clock!

Ner ner ne ner ner ner ...