Viewers could fall asleep in front of it, wake up and find the discussion just hotting up. The Listener magazine described the programme: The new Official Secrets Act has just received the Queen's assent. After Dark would only end when its guests had nothing more to say.

I used to like that show and watched it in the 90's. Every one of them made admissions or came out with most helpful information. There were lots of people on it and they all sat around on Chesterfield leather sofas and chatted about stuff. was transmitted on 29 March 2003. List order is chronological. It was hilarious far funnier than Ollie Reed, who was only invited on because it was a given he'd drink too much and end up causing some related mayhem. Roly Keating of the BBC described it as "one of the great television talk formats of all time". [43], After Dark producers weighed the chances of the guest behaving naturally against becoming tongue-tied because of a frightening formal legal document and opted for the side of freer speech. The Evening Standard described this as "totally compelling viewing": It is not simply what is said that is important. [107], The programme the following week was described by ITN as "As the 1991 Gulf War begins, a group of survivors discuss their feelings – with a powerful appearance by Auschwitz survivor Rabbi Hugo Gryn and Sheila Cassidy, tortured by Chileans while General Pinochet was in power"[42] Gryn's daughter wrote: "At first Hugo and another guest, Karma Nabulsi, a representative of the PLO, seemed hostile to one another, but before long they were giggling like old friends". [98], The programme the following week was described by ITN as being "about the changes in Soviet Russia. Reed drank alcohol during the broadcast; he referred to another member of the panel, who had a moustache, as "tache" and used offensive language. After Dark was a British late-night live discussion programme broadcast on Channel 4 television between 1987 and 1997, and on the BBC in 2003. Annis (Garfield) was too busy pouring wine to notice anything more than where the next bottle was coming from. In 2004 After Dark was characterised as "legendary" by the Open University[8] and in 2014 as "the most uncensorable programme in the history of British television". It was for him. See also: Sci-Fi Television in the 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 2000s | 2010s Related sci-fi list: Sci-Fi Cinema in the 1990s [128], In 1997 a Channel 4 executive was said by The Guardian to be "insistent that 'it's a popular misconception that we killed it off. Andrew Wilson, in his biography of Highsmith, expanded: Sitting next to Howden, Highsmith questioned the bereaved father in a near-clinical fashion. "[95] Michael Randle eventually appeared on After Dark, fourteen years later, on 22 March 2003. And two weeks ago journalist Peter Hillmore sweated so much I thought I would have to throw him a rubber ring. There was an absolute personality change".... Mr Sutcliffe... also claimed his son was not a "monster". It was the 1980s so we employed a member of Militant (at least I think he used to get the newspaper) but also a member of a Roman Catholic sect, a retired rent boy and someone who was later splashed across the front page of The Observer as an SIS agent. His decision prompted a campaign by more than 100 public figures, from an astronaut to a zoologist, to save the programme. You cannot get those human and emotional and intellectual things to happen...Somewhere about twenty or thirty minutes in, you poke a couple of questions...and it's like you know that train has started, the roller coaster, and you will be on it for at least two and a half hours. There was... 50 years of hate between them."[62]. Responding to Mr. Nicol's call, I flew to London to appear on the show with him. It returned the following year for occasional specials until its final demise in 1997. [112], In his column in the Daily Mirror, Victor Lewis-Smith boasted of his hoax call: "The show was taken off air not by C4, but by... little-old-wine-drinking-me, sitting at home, far from the TV studio.... Once connected, I shouted: 'Michael Grade is furious about this. I remember Tony Wilson presented a few of them. 'Jack Kibble-White interviews Justin Scroggie'. Ayer)".[43].

In all the ways that matter the control of After Dark passed from the producer and the broadcaster to the participants. Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Equally fascinating are small gestures and expressions, beautifully caught at significant moments by some astute camerawork; the group's physical and verbal interaction with each other; and above all, the ways in which we are able to see how and why an individual might have arrived at his/her set of ideas and beliefs.[52]. Had he been watching the daughter? He joined the After Dark panel for a discussion on paedophilia and child protection.

The Irish Independent wrote that Worsthorne "likened meeting the Queen Mother to meeting Einstein". Coutts is still pleased with the way viewers could turn the television on and within seconds know that what they were watching couldn't be anything other than After Dark. Again, however, one's hackles soon rose and one was up there, punching the air, taking sides. [114], Channel 4's Deputy Programme Director, John Willis, wrote an internal memo: "Oliver Reed got drunk and a hoaxer caused the programme briefly to be taken off air.

[111] The producer wrote later to the British television trade magazine Broadcast: The team responsible for After Dark were naturally pleased that Broadcast chose our programme as one of the most significant in Channel 4's history in your anniversary issue. The BBC defended the decision to give a platform to Mr O'Carroll, saying he was invited on as part of a legitimate discussion about a topical issue. Journalist Peter Hillmore described appearing on After Dark as follows: In the age of the glib, packaged sound-bite, a discussion programme that is long and open-ended, lasting as long as the talk is remotely interesting, occasionally longer, seems a necessity. brought together victorious Tory MP Teresa Gorman; 'Red Wedge' pop singer Billy Bragg; Helen from the Stonehenge Convoy; old colonialist Colonel Hilary Hook... and Adrian, one of the jobless. I remember an odd show late night on Channel 4 in the 1990s which had a cgi cafe with various animated characters then never seemed to make sense, & seemed to link some other material.

At least I think I'm on the right track now. The one I'm thinking of is when Keith walked off in a strop after having a rant. Do not switch on for a "taste" telling yourself that you will go to bed at 1.00. [39] Bragg explained later: "She was so smug. But for sheer oddness, none has outmatched crime writer-cum-New York bag lady lookalike Patricia Highsmith... asking a series of staggeringly daft and insensitive questions to poor David Howden, whose daughter was strangled by a maniac as she slept.[71]. [82], The following week Channel 4 dropped plans to invite the Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams "to appear on its late night talk show After Dark, after protests from other contributors.



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