Victoria Wood - Susie Blake continuity announcer (Rundown)

[chuffnobbler]

Thanks very much Nobby!

[popazz1]

Ah,Susie Blake,absolutely ruddy superb! She went onto,via many other things,Coronation Street as the mother of that barmaid,whatever her name was,who nearly married the psycho builder chap! Not that I watch Corrie much,lol.And I believe Fred,I say,Fred Elliot offered to marry her! Quite cleverly,these continuity sketches held VW:As seen on TV together.I wonder how that worked,lol!

[clyneheretic]

She once made a radio commercial for me in the early 1990's and gave me a kiss when we left the studio - it was a defining moment in my life. What a delightful, intelligent, funny, beautiful woman!

[MrPianolaman]

The best one is: "Coming up later on the alternative channel, a new programme covering all aspects of women's health... called Well Woman (that's original!). Programme one looks at that distressing and all-too-common condition... [slides scripts aside] That's not a word I care to read out on television. Fortunately [looks back at script sneeringly] it's not something I'm likely to get. And even if I did get it, I certainly wouldn't put yoghurt on it!"

[Applemask]

Thanks very much, Nobby.

[Elainepaigerocks23]

I laughed sooooo much when I saw that!!! lmao!

[themachman19691]

superb!!!

[janoota]

I think this is the actress who married Fred Elliot in Coronation Street

[oscarelgy]

..local news, they still haven't moved that skip, lol

[ItTakes2ToQuango]

I recognise a lot of what she's saying...especially being grateful for a job and not holding the country to ransom!

[igetwet]

WATCH Beverley Ashworth continuity on here, she's so sarcastic and funny, it's a carbon copy of this LOL

[grubby740]

My fave bit from Susie was "..and now for those of you in the North...it must be awful for you.."

[Lyco499499]

"We apologise to those in the North..." actually, its like my all time favourite comedy sketch EVER, lol.

[InACountryGarden]

@grubby740 - Do you know where this 'Sorry for pople in the North' sketch is on YouTube. It's still as funny as ever! (saw it replayed on a great programme re 25 years of V. Wood that was on TV the other day).

[josielawrence]

LOVE susie blake !! !

[corriecrazy]

I have never seen thsi one

[RobinCarmody]

Obvious that "Snookered" / Ken Burrows are supposed to be "Bullseye" / Jim Bowen (seeing how it's 5.30 on a Sunday). I don't think there was any overtly right-wing politics being put forward by ITV announcers then, but left-wing programme makers clearly thought there was a *subtext*, and were frustrated with the old broadcasting order ... thing is, it was the Tories, *against the wishes of their core support*, who broke that down.

[michtyme3]

It's a parody on ITV announcers who tried to make bland links a bit more personable whether that was a good idea or not. I chatted to an ITV links man once who just went on about how Equity was entirely run by communists. So it does have a grain of truth in my v limited experience.

[RobinCarmody]

You couldn't tell me who that announcer was, could you?

My first guess is Brian Nissen (Southern and TVS 1958-87) but maybe that's just stereotyping based on accent/mannerisms. I do suspect it was him who appeared genuinely shocked by one of the mainland European films that Southern used to show (c. 1980/81) late on Friday nights, though.

[michtyme3]

As for breaking down the old broadcast order. To quote

One ninny in The Telegraph went "the deregulation of television will lead to a healty decline in the power of programme planners". The fact it will lead to an unhealthy decline in the programmes didn't seem to bother him. - Alan Bennett, 1993

Whatever achievements of the Thatcher government, there effects on broadcasting (ie 1990 act) have been quite blatantly disastrous.

[RobinCarmody]

And the thing is that many Telegraph readers have always been against deregulation. It has allowed more criticism of the 1990 Act and its aftereffects than The Times (obviously).

The Daily Mail (which I normally hate) has probably been the right-wing paper most critical of it. What I really hate is when eg Polly Toynbee implictly praises it, just because it has allowed things that teachers they hated in 1961 would have thought "vulgar" (irrelevant now).

[barpypardlo]

Did you mean 'their' michtyme3?

[JamesFlockhart]

Love Susie going to see ehr in Wicked on Saturday cant wait

[edfranklin42]

Going to see her in Wicked in December for my birthday, she's a legend!

[andyee2]

Bev off corrie =D

[pipoo1]

This was so close to the bone of real ITV Continuity in the 80s. Legend.

[schemie1]

i lOVE suzie blake. sorry she didnt go something for acorn antiques show

[brownbess]

Goddess.

[gremlins1]

"I suppose working class people find him amusing"- Victoria Wood's writing genius! :D

[landinglight]

Have watched this a million times already, and still find that bit hilarious!

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