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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  • degsyhufcdegsyhufc Posts: 59,251
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    Do you have any of your own examples to start off with?
  • Terry WigonTerry Wigon Posts: 6,831
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    For the first series and concept - Big Brother. Really heralded the era of intrusive, round-the-clock 'live' reality TV.
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    The Jump
  • Twenty10Twenty10 Posts: 416
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    lombard wrote: »
    The Jump



    A group of celebrities doing challenges? Unique or innovative TV?
  • Michael_EveMichael_Eve Posts: 14,425
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    The Prisoner. The Strange World of Gurney Slade. Doctor Who. Hancock's Half Hour. Monty Python's Flying Circus.

    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. :)
  • ftvftv Posts: 31,668
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    That Was the Week That Was - BBC
    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
  • FayecorgasmFayecorgasm Posts: 29,793
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    Z cars
  • Archie DukeArchie Duke Posts: 1,610
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    What was innovative or unique about Sunday Night at the London Palladium ?

    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.
  • FayecorgasmFayecorgasm Posts: 29,793
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    7 up series
  • degsyhufcdegsyhufc Posts: 59,251
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    7 up series
    Good shout. Can you imagine the comissioner at the meeting.

    What? You mean if this thing is a success we have to wait seven years for the next series?!!!

    :D
  • Prince MonaluluPrince Monalulu Posts: 35,900
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    What was innovative or unique about Sunday Night at the London Palladium ?

    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.

    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.
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    The Simpsons- Animation that attracts adults as well as children.

    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
  • Doghouse RileyDoghouse Riley Posts: 32,491
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    Nothing much these days.

    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.
  • degsyhufcdegsyhufc Posts: 59,251
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    The Larry Sanders Show

    Possibly the first mockumentary on telly???
    I know This Is Spinal Tap was before.
  • FayecorgasmFayecorgasm Posts: 29,793
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    The World at war
  • lundavralundavra Posts: 31,790
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    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.

    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.
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    Twenty10 wrote: »
    A group of celebrities doing challenges? Unique or innovative TV?
    Celebrities doing challenges on snow. When has that ever been done before? In a house, yes. In a jungle, yes. Ice, yes. Water, yes. Snow? No.
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    The Sopranos - great characters, great music, great cinematography, great scripts, great acting, great concept (A mafioso with all the problems of a normal family guy) best TV ever :cool:

    Edit - just realised I'm in a UK thread - so I think Brass Eye was pretty innovative.........and The Office
  • d0lphind0lphin Posts: 25,327
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    degsyhufc wrote: »
    Good shout. Can you imagine the comissioner at the meeting.

    What? You mean if this thing is a success we have to wait seven years for the next series?!!!

    :D

    And equally who would have imagined that 49 years later it would still be going strong

    (looking forward to 63 Up!:D)
  • JimothyDJimothyD Posts: 8,868
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    24 - attempting an entire series of fiction as though it ran in real time.
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