When he decided to concentrate on telly, again, after a meagre two years, Radio 1 needed, well, a radio one.
It wasn’t imperfect entirely, but it felt a bit like he was phoning it in, coincidentally at a stage when he reintroduced the funny phone call shtick that his telly chum Noel Edmonds had been doing more methodically a decade before. He never became a household name via the spoken word and upon his elevation in 1986, was the first example of something that has become an epidemic of the BBC in recent years the TV star shoehorned into a radio slot in the hope it would fit. Read’s wish to be playing on the records rather than just playing them was no secret but Smith was really enigmatic, something you can’t be at breakfast. The 1980s had been dominated of a morn by Mikes Read and Smith, and while both were communicators of expertise, there was always a nagging doubt they were yearning for something else. There was something quite touching, generous even, about handing the biggest gig in UK radio to someone who wasn’t especially well known, but evidently had an extra sparkle that Radio 1’s flagship programme required all over again. When Simon Mayo took over the Radio 1 breakfast show in 1988, it felt like a warm blanket had been wrapped around the nation’s favourite. Get your motor spinning, there’s so much to do Thank you for visiting! If you’d like to support our attempts to make a non-clickbaity movie website:įollow Film Stories on Twitter here, and on Facebook here.īuy our Film Stories and Film Stories Junior print magazines here.The breakfast show’s here to start your day
The programme will go up on BBC iPlayer immediately afterwards too. Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review May 8, 2020 📺 It starts on next Friday at 8:30pm /dmKcWcCs09 ▶️ First show: Normal People, Twelve Monkeys & Mark’s look at Life on Mars 🎬 Join and for a guide to streaming films and television 🎞️ Kermode and Mayo’s Home Entertainment Service is coming And a special promo trailer has been put together to give you a taste as to what’s in store. It’s a six-part series that’s been given the nod by BBC Four, and it’ll be going out every Friday night at 8.30pm, starting this very week. It goes by the name of Kermode & Mayo’s Home Entertainment Service, and will see the pair navigating the world of streaming services in the quest to find good things to watch. This very evening, the good doctors Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo take their film-related witterings to television for the first Wittertainment television programme.
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