Not the Nine O'Clock News

Not the Nine O'Clock News is a British comedy television series, that of 1979 to 1982 was broadcast on the BBC.

The program brought sketches of a new generation of young comedians, particularly Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. The sketches were not made by a team of writers, but one gave more people from the British comedy world the chance to make contributions, from which the best ones were left over. The format was similar to that of Monty Python's Flying Circus a decade earlier, with sketches from a few seconds to several minutes long.

The original uitzendtijdstip gave rise to the name of the program. Originally it was broadcast on BBC2 at the same time as the news (Nine O'Clock News) on BBC1. ==History[ Edit] == Not the Nine O'Clock News was made under production by John Lloyd, someone already had its place in British comedy and the BBC Light EntertainmentDepartment. Lloyd suggested the idea for a sketch at the head of the BBC programme Comedy and Light Entertainment, and got a series of six on the condition that he would cooperate with Sean Hardie, who had worked at before to interpretation programon the BBC.

The original actors would Rowan Atkinson, Christopher Godwin, John Gorman, Chris Langham, Willoughby Goddard and Jonathan Hyde, and the first broadcast was scheduled on april 2, 1979. The first episode would be shown after an episode of Fawlty Towers. John Cleese would be so introduce the first episode in a sketch in which he would refer to a strike of the technicians, and one in the city has a cheap program would show. Around that time in the United Kingdom also proved the elections of 1979 planned, and the show was withdrawn because they would be too political. [1]  the sketch with John Cleese was later that year eventually did not broadcast, when by chance the last episode of Fawlty Towers was aired while the first series of Not the Nine O'Clock News was still running.

A time later, Lloyd and Hardie meeting again and decided to change the cast what; only Langham and Atkinson remained. It also wanted a woman. Be a Victoria Wood 's offerings, Pamela Stephenson turned out be interested. What also came later Mel Smith at the cast. [1]  the first series took out sufficient success to make a second. Langham was replaced by Griff Rhys Jones, who had played for several small roles. [2]  this second series won the Silver Rose at the Montreux Festival and a BAFTA Award for Best Light Entertainment Programme in 1982. [3]

A total of 27 episodes were made, each half an hour long:

This original episodes, however, were not so often retransmitted. Instead, one with the material ran 12 episodes together (to make it "even faster and funnier")[4], which were repeated.
 * 17 October 20 november 1979 - 1979: six episodes
 * 31 March 12 may 1979 - 1980: 7 episodes
 * 27 October 1980 - december 15, 1980: 8 episodes
 * 1 February 8 March 1982 - 1982: six episodes

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The main writers were David Renwick, Colin Bostock-Smith, Andy Hamilton, Peter Banda, Richard Curtis and Clive Anderson.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="181" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]  by the "open door policy" of the producers could however submit a script so that the quasi everyone makers could choose from a wealth of choices, and the show keep updated by just days before the broadcast to record. For music Howard Goodallwas, later composer of the title music of, among others, Red Dwarf, BlackAdder and The Vicar of Dibley. Bill Wilson was Director of the first three seasons, Geoff Posner of the fourth.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">By Not the Nine O'Clock News was a theatre performance created in 1982 in Oxford and London, but the lead actors mistook it for views despite the success, and went their separate ways. Stephenson began a film career in Hollywood; Atkinson took in 1983 the first BlackAdder series on; Smith and Jones worked together in Alas Smith and Jones. In America he made the television series Not Necessarily the News, which for six years, from 1983 to 1989, was broadcast on the cable channel Home Box Office.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-2" len="196" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1] .