What do you think are The most unique and innovative programmes on TV
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What shows past or present were or are unique or innovative in one way or another like doing something that no one ever did before
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A group of celebrities doing challenges? Unique or innovative TV?
Those are the ones that spring to mind immediately for me, anyway.
Edit: Actually would like to add Sapphire and Steel, The Avengers, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Callan whist I'm at it.
Monty Python - BBC
Sunday Night at the London Palladium - ATV
World in Action - Granada
Two of a Kind - ATV - later to become the Morecambe and Wise Show - BBC
The Grove Family - BBC - British TV's first soap
Coronation Street - Granada/ITV Studios - world's most enduring soap
The Late Late Show - RTE - changed Irish culture
Grandstand - BBC - format for sports coverage later adopted by ITV and in many other countries including the US
Mastermind - BBC - a hugely successful quiz show without any big money prizes
It was a theatre Variety show that was televised, hugely popular, but cheap and unimaginative.
The Family, a fly-on-the-wall documentary prog from the 1970s, although the BBC pinched the idea from America.
What? You mean if this thing is a success we have to wait seven years for the next series?!!!
Had anyone broadcast a live variety show before, in the UK, off site, with the same level of big names?
I'm guessing with all the OB facility's and American big names it probably cost a few bob at the time.
This Life- It was a cult TV show that presented strange camera angles and a depiction of 20 somethings. It was different for it's time.
Who Wants To Be a Millionaire-Do not like it but it was a high stakes prize
The Weakest Link
However.. from the past.
The first series of "Tomorrow's World."
Pretty much the earliest way viewers had regular access to information on new technology.
"Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?"
It introduced viewers to art, natural history and particularly, archeology.
Possibly the first mockumentary on telly???
I know This Is Spinal Tap was before.
Most programmes would have been live so nothing unusual. They perhaps had more money for the big American stars but it was just a development from existing variety shows rather than being particularly innovative.
The Sky At Night should be on the list.
Who Do You Think You Are pioneered that type of programme and has versions or copies in almost every country.
It could be said that Strictly Come Dancing did the same to revive interest in a ballroom dancing programmes, most people had not forgotten how embarrassing the old Come Dancing used to be but they managed to produce a programme that again has been copied all over the world.
Edit - just realised I'm in a UK thread - so I think Brass Eye was pretty innovative.........and The Office
And equally who would have imagined that 49 years later it would still be going strong
(looking forward to 63 Up!:D)