Английская Википедия:A Stab in the Dark (TV series)
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English A Stab in the Dark is a British television programme of topical monologues and discussion screened on Channel 4 in 1992, shortly after Channel 4 axed the similarly titled (but unrelated) After Dark. The series ran from 5 June[1] until 7 August 1992.[2]
It was hosted by comedian David Baddiel, television presenter Tracey MacLeod and journalist and critic Michael Gove, later a Conservative MP and minister.[3][4]
The monologues, often containing very dark 'humour', were delivered straight to camera by each host in turn before a small studio audience on a stark set with numerous staircases.[5] Sometimes relevant guests were invited on, including Conservative MPs Jerry Hayes and Alan Clark. Contributions were also made by Richard Herring.[6] One of the writers on the show was Stewart Lee.[7] A segment was included where Gove examined the rubbish bins of celebrities, including David Attenborough's.[8]
Both MacLeod and Baddiel have described the show as a failure: Baddiel called it "not right in so many ways" and MacLeod called it a "fiftysomething commissioner's fantasy of merging The Tube and That Was the Week That Was...the clips that exist capture the horrible, echoey silence with which most of our monologues were received...[it] turns out it's a good idea to have very strong opinions about stuff before signing up to do a polemical TV series."[9][3] Baddiel also said in 2016 that "I actually think bits of it were interesting and funny. But the presentation was appalling."[10]
Viewing figures were not encouraging and the show ran for a single series; Baddiel was privately asked if he was interested in filming a second series without his co-hosts but declined.[3] It has never been repeated, although in 2016 Channel 4 released eight of the nine episodes to its All 4 streaming service, following increased public interest in Gove after the EU membership referendum.[11]
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External links
- TV Cream entry
- Interview with David Baddiel by Richard Herring discussing the show
- ↑ Date: Friday, 5 June 1992, Publication: The Times (London, England) Issue: 64351
- ↑ Friday, 7 August 1992 Publication: The Times (London, England) Issue: 64405
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- ↑ The Brexit government is lost in a fog of lies, Stewart Lee, The Observer, 2 August 2020.
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- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web Episodes 1–7 & 9.
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