Saturday Live

Summary

Saturday Live was a British television comedy and music show broadcast by Channel 4 from 1985 to 1987, and in 1988 as Friday Night Live. Influenced by the American show Saturday Night Live, it was produced by Paul Jackson. The series made stars of Ben Elton, Harry Enfield, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, and featured appearances by Patrick Marber, Morwenna Banks, Chris Barrie, Emo Philips, Craig Ferguson, Craig Charles and many others. The show featured comic duo Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall in their act The Dangerous Brothers. All episodes were transmitted live, although some material was pre-recorded. Recordings of shows were edited into compilation repeats, retitled Saturday Almost Live. The show was succeeded by Friday Night Live, a shorter and slightly more tightly-formatted show with Elton as the permanent host, which ran for a single series in 1988. The show's titles consisted of reforming clay animations, highly comparable to early MTV idents.

Keywords

Recommendations

I Am Not an Animal

The Job

This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Postcards from Buster

North of 60

Star Trek

The Kardashians

Two Guys and a Girl

Keeping Up Appearances

Crossing Jordan

Karma

Boardwalk Empire

Hardball with Chris Matthews

Laverne & Shirley

Big Brother

Mayday

The World in Your Home

Radiation House

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

Bangkok Hilton