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When Miranda Met Bruce (BBC 1)
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When Miranda Met Bruce
Miranda Hart interviews Sir Bruce Forsyth about his 70-year career in showbusiness, finding out the key to his success and longevity in the world of entertainment.
Just watching this...
I love Brucie - use to watch his gameshows and other things with my late grandma when i was a kid :cool:
Miranda Hart interviews Sir Bruce Forsyth about his 70-year career in showbusiness, finding out the key to his success and longevity in the world of entertainment.
Just watching this...
I love Brucie - use to watch his gameshows and other things with my late grandma when i was a kid :cool:
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I quite enjoyed Miranda's sitcom, though others find her painfully unfunny. I got a bit tired of it towards the end though. Sometimes she can be pretty funny but other times she seems a bit too 'me me me'.
He is the last of the great entertainers.
I was surprised to hear that he had 16 years of experience before he began presenting Sunday Night At The Palladium. I think that explains a lot.
He really is
A career like his... he was bundle of energy back in those days, you can see it in all those clips and even now, you can see where it all comes from :cool:
Lol I bet you there's not
I thought that same thing, with the staircase, the colours and the wallpaper perhaps? then the clip with the lady having to wear those glasses lol
They claim he's been in the (entertainment) industry for 70 years and that he's 85. The only clips I've seen of him seem to be of him when he was probably in his 30s or older - was he only in smallish productions in his younger years?.
Hmm, "a career lasting 70 years." That was 20 years too many.
I just caught a bit of his "singing" whilst changing channels.
If he were on X-Factor he'd definitely get "four no's."
So why all the fuss?
He's past it, but sadly doesn't know it. He's in danger of being remembered by the younger generations, for stuff like this, rather than his performances thirty and forty years ago.
Bruce started out in showbusiness at the age of 14, billed as Boy Bruce, the Mighty Atom.
He used to sing, dance and play the accordion.
Miranda may be a bit marmite but who isn't today? For me she has enough about her to make for many possibilities in the coming years.
I agree, the use of Hart is the BBC's way of pandering to the demographic, she has absolutely no idea the hard work and grind that Forsyth had to endure in order to get a leg up to gain entry into the Temple of TV back in the 1960s.
She ain't worthy to touch the hem of Brucie's garment.
Now she's taking part in a duet.
Goodness me.
He has class! To last all that time when many have come gone and been forgotten, he is a living legend.
There is no one left with his skills! The showmen or show ladies have all gone, legends like Tommy Copper, Ronnie Barker, Morecambe and Wise, they were real entertainers.
You come across very rude in your post to Sir Bruce recognised by the government and the Queen for services to Britain.
He can hold down a live TV show of two hours, after all day rehearsals and ad lib when something goes wrong.
He was an executive producer tonight with Miranda and writes on Strictly.
The UK public overall love him.
1 I hope I am alive at his age and 2 I wish I am as fit as him at his age. Real person with real talent unlike the so called talent of people like Simon Cowell whose only claim to fame us being nasty to new talent, Simons 15 mins of fame is now dying, his show in the USA is falling in the ratings.
Bruce tonight showed his diverse talent respect to him, he will retire when he feels it's right go do do and then we will be poorer with that void up filled by any new talent.
Justify, he is last it! Yes he tells some old jokes, so of Ant and Deck, just on a live show he may fluff auto cue, so do others who dare to go live. Most TV today is recorded and edited, so they look good but do not have his talent.
As a boy my Saturday night TV was Doctor Who and the generation game both must see TV, with the Two Ronnie's later, I wish we had the Generation Game back but it needs talent such as Bruce. An all rounder.
You dont hear many stage names like that anymore.
It's a pity they didn't explain the clip of him and Norman Wisdom properly. In December 1961 Equity called a strike of its members which prevented any of them from appearing on the Palladium show. But Bruce and Norman were not Equity members so improvised the whole hour-long show live on their own.It is a master class of two great performers and is available on Youtube and from Network - highly recommended if you want to see two legends at work.
I know other posters have covered this, but.
Hells teeth, there's a world of entertainment besides TV FGS.
OK this 'world' has shrunk, but it still exists.
'If you're not on TV, you're nobody'
Anyway dipped in and out, probably download it later, not that I watch anything Bruce is in these days, but I've got some time for the chap, he's a grafter and loves his job, it's nice to see.
I know that - I just meant it would have been interesting to see some footage of earlier appearances, thats all. No offence intended.
I would imagine he would be quite pleased about that judging by some of those who have actually got four Yesses. Leona Lewis and one or two others aside X Factor is hardly a byword for quality. Chart sales from cheesy boybands don't count as quality imo.
I thought his performance, given that he is 85, was brilliant tonight. And it was a really enjoyable wander through time.
I always remember him presenting Liza Minnelli with some award. His fawning over her was beyond embarrassing culminating in him asking her if she would do a special with him. Minnelli had the grace to look suitably embarrassed by what was happening and responded with words to the effect of 'I'm not sure who you are but you've put me in a spot be asking me that on stage with no warning so how can I say anything other than of course I will' Needless to say the special was never made.
The less said about Hart the better.