chrismoyles.net
- Tue Sep 24, 2002 12:26 pm
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From Media Guardian (John Plunkett)
Chris Evans' comeback show, Live With Chris Moyles on Channel 5, began in typically controversial style with a four-letter word within the first 10 minutes.
The weeknight show is the first time Evans has shunned the spotlight to work solely as an executive producer, and marks his return to British TV after a two-year exile in the US.
Moyles was clearly nervous on his prime time debut, fluffing his lines and getting a telephone number wrong at the beginning of the show, filmed live from a pub in King's Cross.
His nerves weren't helped when a caller said * live on air barely halfway through.
The show, which shuns celebrity guests in favour of phone-ins, pub-style games and - in last night's show - a chat with the Channel 5 entertainment chief, Andrew Newman, will air five nights a week on Channel 5.
Last night's first effort was very much in the tradition of Evans' defunct TFI Friday for Channel 4.
One of the more successful parts of the show featured a game called 'Push the Pint,' in which a pint of lager is pushed down a bar. Depending on where it lands, either Moyles - or the audience - receives an electric shock.
Producers were unable to edit out the four-letter word because it is transmitted without a delay.
Moyles, who was talking to a viewer in Birmingham, told the audience: Oh no, you can't say that. We've been doing pilots for three weeks. That's the problem with live TV. I'm sorry everyone. He shouldn't have said that.
Evans has been here before. TV watchdogs insisted TFI Friday was pre-recorded in 1996 after former Happy Mondays star Shaun Ryder said the F-word 13 times in a single live show. The show later returned to being broadcast live.
Evans will be hoping the same thing doesn't happen to his new project. It was Moyles' first show for Channel 5 and marked his much-anticipated terrestrial TV debut. He previously hosted a music show on cable and satellite channel, UK Play.
Chris Evans' comeback show, Live With Chris Moyles on Channel 5, began in typically controversial style with a four-letter word within the first 10 minutes.
The weeknight show is the first time Evans has shunned the spotlight to work solely as an executive producer, and marks his return to British TV after a two-year exile in the US.
Moyles was clearly nervous on his prime time debut, fluffing his lines and getting a telephone number wrong at the beginning of the show, filmed live from a pub in King's Cross.
His nerves weren't helped when a caller said * live on air barely halfway through.
The show, which shuns celebrity guests in favour of phone-ins, pub-style games and - in last night's show - a chat with the Channel 5 entertainment chief, Andrew Newman, will air five nights a week on Channel 5.
Last night's first effort was very much in the tradition of Evans' defunct TFI Friday for Channel 4.
One of the more successful parts of the show featured a game called 'Push the Pint,' in which a pint of lager is pushed down a bar. Depending on where it lands, either Moyles - or the audience - receives an electric shock.
Producers were unable to edit out the four-letter word because it is transmitted without a delay.
Moyles, who was talking to a viewer in Birmingham, told the audience: Oh no, you can't say that. We've been doing pilots for three weeks. That's the problem with live TV. I'm sorry everyone. He shouldn't have said that.
Evans has been here before. TV watchdogs insisted TFI Friday was pre-recorded in 1996 after former Happy Mondays star Shaun Ryder said the F-word 13 times in a single live show. The show later returned to being broadcast live.
Evans will be hoping the same thing doesn't happen to his new project. It was Moyles' first show for Channel 5 and marked his much-anticipated terrestrial TV debut. He previously hosted a music show on cable and satellite channel, UK Play.
