Введение
Субботняя детская программа. SMTV Live (сокращение от Saturday Morning Television Live, также стилизованное как SM: LIVE) — британская субботняя детская телевизионная программа, созданная Blaze Television для ITV. Программа, выполненная в формате, схожем с другими субботними утренними детскими передачами, такими как Live & Kicking на BBC, впервые вышла в эфир 29 августа 1998 года и продолжалась более 270 эпизодов на протяжении пяти лет, завершившись 27 декабря 2003 года. Формат программы включал в себя сборник скетчей, конкурсов и испытаний, а также подборку детских программ и мультфильмов. Программа имела большой успех, способствуя развитию карьеры Энта Макпартлина и Деклана Доннелли как дуэта Ant & Dec, а также популяризации японского аниме-сериала Pokémon на британском телевидении. SMTV Live стала известна благодаря различным элементам, включая скетч, основанный на Pokémon, телефонный конкурс "Wonkey Donkey" и выпуск CD:UK в конце утренней программы, в котором участвовали ведущие. Программа регулярно пользовалась популярностью у зрителей, привлекая около 2,5 миллионов телезрителей. После завершения шоу, бывшая компания Ant & Dec, Gallowgate Holdings Limited, сохранила права на него. В апреле 2017 года дуэт предложил специальный выпуск к 20-летию, чтобы воссоединиться с соведущей Кэт Дили, но, несмотря на объявление о возрождении программы на церемонии вручения телевизионных премий Британской академии 2017 года, ITV позже заявила, что предложение было отклонено. 26 декабря 2020 года на ITV вышел документальный фильм-воссоединение под названием "История SM:TV Live", в котором Энт, Дек и Кэт вспомнили о своем времени в шоу. "PokéRap" и "Pokéfight" — эти скетчи были основаны на регулярных трансляциях Pokémon в программе и в основном исполнялись Макпартлином и Доннелли с 1999 по 2001 год. В рэп-скетчах дуэт в основном выступал в роли рэперов, исполняя рэпы с упоминанием различных Pokémon, при этом каждый из них носил вязаный свитер с изображением Пикачу и своим именем. Позже функция была расширена за счет еженедельного сегмента с письмами, в котором зрители присылали свои собственные рэпы (в основном на домашних видео), и участия приглашенных звезд в эпизоде. Скетч с боями также в основном исполняли Макпартлин и Доннелли и был создан сценаристами шоу под влиянием мультсериала. Ведущие изображали пародийные версии главных героев аниме, сражаясь с использованием "Pokémon", названных в честь приемов, которые они выполняли друг против друга. Примером является "Embarrassmon", когда один из дуэлянтов рассказывал секрет о другом, что наносило ему урон. В скетче часто использовалась графическая накладка, напоминающая видеоигру Pokémon. "Eminemmerdale" — пародия на американского рэпера Эминема и сериал "Эммердейл".
SMTV Live (an abbreviation of Saturday Morning Television Live, and also stylised as SM: LIVE) was a British Saturday morning children's television programme, produced by Blaze Television for ITV. Operating on a similar format to other Saturday morning programmes for children, such as BBC's Live & Kicking, the programme premiered on 29 August 1998 and ran for over 270 episodes across five years, before its conclusion on 27 December 2003. The programme's format focused on a collection of sketches, competitions and challenges, alongside a compilation of children's programmes and cartoons. The programme proved a major success, contributing to furthering the careers of Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly under the partnership of Ant & Dec, as well as promoting the broadcast of Japanese anime series Pokémon on British television. SMTV Live became notable for various elements including a sketch based on Pokémon, the phone competition of "Wonkey Donkey", and the late morning edition of CD:UK that the presenters of the programme were involved in towards the end of the morning schedule. The programme was regularly popular with its audiences, attracting around 2.5 million viewers. Following its conclusion, Ant & Dec's former company Gallowgate Holdings Limited retained the rights to the show. In April 2017, the duo made a proposal for a 20th anniversary special to reunite them with co presenter Cat Deeley, but despite an announcement of it being revived during the 2017 British Academy Television Awards, ITV later stated that the proposal had been dropped. On 26 December 2020, a one off reunion documentary aired on ITV under the title The Story of SM:TV Live, featuring Ant, Dec and Cat reminiscing on their time on the show. "PokéRap" and "Pokéfight" These sketches were based upon the programme's regularly featured broadcasts of Pokémon, and were conducted primarily by McPartlin and Donnelly between 1999 and 2001. The rap sketches mainly involved the pair acting as rappers and conducting raps that featured the names of various Pokémon, while each wearing a knitted Pokémon jumper that featured both Pikachu and their own name upon it. The feature later developed with the addition of a weekly letters' segment with viewers sending in their own raps (mostly via home video), and the eventual participation of the celebrity guest(s) for that week's episode. The fight sketch also mainly involved McPartlin and Donnelly, and was the creation of the show's writers after being inspired by the cartoon series. The presenters portrayed different parody version of the anime's main characters, in which they fought using "Pokémon" named after the moves they performed on each other an example of this was "Embarrassmon" which involved one dueller telling a secret about the other, which damaged their health as a result. The sketch often involved a graphic overlay, that was reminiscent of the video game of Pokémon. "Eminemmerdale" A parody of the American rapper Eminem and the Yorkshire Television soap opera Emmerdale
Основные особенности
Наряду со скетчами, программа также включала в себя смесь конкурсов – как телефонных, так и студийных – и других сегментов. Призы в конкурсах отличались от предлагаемых другими детскими программами субботнего утра, включая более ценные предметы, в том числе путевки на отдых. Среди использованных сегментов наиболее заметными были:
"Postbag" A segment for reading out viewer fan mail, which often began with the presenters, guests and audience dancing to the song "Please Mr. Postman" by The Carpenters. The segment featured three notable events during the tenure of McPartlin and Donnelly:
During the episode broadcast on 1 April 2000, Donnelly pulled off an April Fool's joke by pretending to be slightly ill when opening the Mailbag segment and passing out unconscious. A few seconds after this, the programme moved towards airing the second half of a cartoon, before later returning after a commercial break to Donnelly revealing the truth. A later interview with both himself and McPartlin later revealed the joke had been devised to coincide with the date but had been unplanned and frowned upon by ITV. McPartlin once had to read out a rather crude anecdote, that caused him to fall into uncontrollable laughing alongside his co presenter. The incident later was retained as a clip on the consideration that it appeared to be in the similar format of an "outtake". One letter sent to the presenters concerned the pronunciation of the word "Pokémon" and asked that it be pronounced as "Po KAY mon". However, when the second half of the Pokémon episode "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" and included the pronunciation the presenters had used, Donnelly paused the broadcast to review the moment before making a small rant to camera about the letter and then ripping it up before allowing the episode to resume. It was not made clear if the incident had been a stunt and intended to make a point on the subject. Magic Many episodes featured the guest appearance of various magicians, who conducted small and large scale illusions on the programme. These illusions often involved the participation of Deeley as an assistant, in which she commonly was involved in the "Sawing a woman in half" illusion. After Deeley left in 2002, her replacement Tess Daly took over to act as assistant on later illusions performed on SMTV Live. "Wonkey Donkey" A phone in competition for viewers to partake in, which operated in a similar manner to that of Catchphrase, but required contestants to answer with two words that rhymed together to match the object they showed a golden rule of the competition. For example, the game's name itself of "Wonkey Donkey" pertained to describe the state of a small toy donkey which had one leg missing. Before contestants began, the presenters would showcase something similar, before taking calls from up to five viewers. Donnelly frequently often ranted in "anger" to camera when a young contestant couldn't get the answer, with the game often notable for featuring presenters using the catchphrase of "It's gotta rhyme!" As a rule, if none of the callers answered correctly, the competition would roll over to the next week if after three weeks, no one had answered correctly, the object involved would be abandoned for a new one. The competition itself remained notable in ITV, receiving a mock version on Britain's Got More Talent and Celebrity Juice. "Challenge Ant" A studio competition in which one of the young audience members would be challenged by Donnelly to give McPartlin ten questions they had prepared, usually based on that week's showbiz news. Each question he failed to answer correctly within a time limit of ten seconds would result in the child winning a prize. After the ten questions had been given, Donnelly would offer the contestant a chance to gamble their prizes on a star prize, in which they asked McPartlin a further question if answered incorrectly, the contestant would win all their prizes, but if answered correctly, the prizes and star prize would be put up for offer in a viewers' competition. Later episodes later gave the child contestant a consolation prize of a handkerchief reading "I lost on Challenge Ant", along with celebrity editions of the contest. After McPartlin and Donnelly left the programme, Deeley took over the contest under the title of Brian's Brain", challenging children to defeat Brian Dowling under the same format, with Daly taking over in 2002. "Eat My Goal" A phone in competition which used the Collapsed Lung song of the same name as its theme music in which viewers chose a celebrity, who would proceed to take penalties against McPartlin in goal while Donnelly hosted the contest. The format was amended with Dowling as the goalkeeper in 2001, with Daly and later Stephen Mulhern hosting the competition. In 2003, the format was changed to a different celebrity each week representing two teams taking it in turns to be goalkeeper.
"Почта" – Сегмент для зачитывания писем от зрителей, который часто начинался с того, что ведущие, гости и зрители танцевали под песню "Please Mr. Postman" в исполнении The Carpenters. За время работы Макпартлина и Доннелли в этом сегменте произошло три примечательных события: во время эпизода, вышедшего в эфир 1 апреля 2000 года, Доннелли разыграл шутку на первоапрельский день, притворившись слегка нездоровым, когда открывал рубрику "Почта", и потерял сознание. Через несколько секунд программа перешла к показу второй части мультфильма, а затем вернулась после рекламного перерыва, чтобы Доннелли раскрыл правду. Последующее интервью с ним и Макпартлином показало, что шутка была задумана к этой дате, но была незапланированной и не одобрялась ITV. Макпартлин однажды пришлось зачитать довольно грубые воспоминания, что привело его в неудержимый смех вместе с соведущим. Этот эпизод был сохранен в качестве отрывка, поскольку он, по-видимому, соответствовал формату "ляпов". В одном письме, присланном ведущим, касалось произношения слова "Покемон" и просьбы произносить его как "По КАЙ мон". Однако, когда во второй половине эпизода "Булбазавр и скрытая деревня" прозвучало произношение, которое использовали ведущие, Доннелли приостановил трансляцию, чтобы пересмотреть этот момент, после чего высказал небольшое недовольство в камеру по поводу письма, а затем разорвал его, прежде чем разрешить продолжить показ эпизода. Не было ясно, был ли этот инцидент спланированной акцией, призванной подчеркнуть проблему.
"Postbag" A segment for reading out viewer fan mail, which often began with the presenters, guests and audience dancing to the song "Please Mr. Postman" by The Carpenters. The segment featured three notable events during the tenure of McPartlin and Donnelly:
During the episode broadcast on 1 April 2000, Donnelly pulled off an April Fool's joke by pretending to be slightly ill when opening the Mailbag segment and passing out unconscious. A few seconds after this, the programme moved towards airing the second half of a cartoon, before later returning after a commercial break to Donnelly revealing the truth. A later interview with both himself and McPartlin later revealed the joke had been devised to coincide with the date but had been unplanned and frowned upon by ITV. McPartlin once had to read out a rather crude anecdote, that caused him to fall into uncontrollable laughing alongside his co presenter. The incident later was retained as a clip on the consideration that it appeared to be in the similar format of an "outtake". One letter sent to the presenters concerned the pronunciation of the word "Pokémon" and asked that it be pronounced as "Po KAY mon". However, when the second half of the Pokémon episode "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" and included the pronunciation the presenters had used, Donnelly paused the broadcast to review the moment before making a small rant to camera about the letter and then ripping it up before allowing the episode to resume. It was not made clear if the incident had been a stunt and intended to make a point on the subject. Magic Many episodes featured the guest appearance of various magicians, who conducted small and large scale illusions on the programme. These illusions often involved the participation of Deeley as an assistant, in which she commonly was involved in the "Sawing a woman in half" illusion. After Deeley left in 2002, her replacement Tess Daly took over to act as assistant on later illusions performed on SMTV Live. "Wonkey Donkey" A phone in competition for viewers to partake in, which operated in a similar manner to that of Catchphrase, but required contestants to answer with two words that rhymed together to match the object they showed a golden rule of the competition. For example, the game's name itself of "Wonkey Donkey" pertained to describe the state of a small toy donkey which had one leg missing. Before contestants began, the presenters would showcase something similar, before taking calls from up to five viewers. Donnelly frequently often ranted in "anger" to camera when a young contestant couldn't get the answer, with the game often notable for featuring presenters using the catchphrase of "It's gotta rhyme!" As a rule, if none of the callers answered correctly, the competition would roll over to the next week if after three weeks, no one had answered correctly, the object involved would be abandoned for a new one. The competition itself remained notable in ITV, receiving a mock version on Britain's Got More Talent and Celebrity Juice. "Challenge Ant" A studio competition in which one of the young audience members would be challenged by Donnelly to give McPartlin ten questions they had prepared, usually based on that week's showbiz news. Each question he failed to answer correctly within a time limit of ten seconds would result in the child winning a prize. After the ten questions had been given, Donnelly would offer the contestant a chance to gamble their prizes on a star prize, in which they asked McPartlin a further question if answered incorrectly, the contestant would win all their prizes, but if answered correctly, the prizes and star prize would be put up for offer in a viewers' competition. Later episodes later gave the child contestant a consolation prize of a handkerchief reading "I lost on Challenge Ant", along with celebrity editions of the contest. After McPartlin and Donnelly left the programme, Deeley took over the contest under the title of Brian's Brain", challenging children to defeat Brian Dowling under the same format, with Daly taking over in 2002. "Eat My Goal" A phone in competition which used the Collapsed Lung song of the same name as its theme music in which viewers chose a celebrity, who would proceed to take penalties against McPartlin in goal while Donnelly hosted the contest. The format was amended with Dowling as the goalkeeper in 2001, with Daly and later Stephen Mulhern hosting the competition. In 2003, the format was changed to a different celebrity each week representing two teams taking it in turns to be goalkeeper.
"Магия" – Многие эпизоды включали в себя выступления различных фокусников, которые демонстрировали иллюзии как в малом, так и в большом масштабе. Эти иллюзии часто включали участие Дили в качестве ассистентки, в частности, в иллюзии "Распиливание женщины пополам". После ухода Дили в 2002 году ее заменила Тесс Дейли, которая стала ассистенткой в более поздних иллюзиях, показанных в SMTV Live.
"Postbag" A segment for reading out viewer fan mail, which often began with the presenters, guests and audience dancing to the song "Please Mr. Postman" by The Carpenters. The segment featured three notable events during the tenure of McPartlin and Donnelly:
During the episode broadcast on 1 April 2000, Donnelly pulled off an April Fool's joke by pretending to be slightly ill when opening the Mailbag segment and passing out unconscious. A few seconds after this, the programme moved towards airing the second half of a cartoon, before later returning after a commercial break to Donnelly revealing the truth. A later interview with both himself and McPartlin later revealed the joke had been devised to coincide with the date but had been unplanned and frowned upon by ITV. McPartlin once had to read out a rather crude anecdote, that caused him to fall into uncontrollable laughing alongside his co presenter. The incident later was retained as a clip on the consideration that it appeared to be in the similar format of an "outtake". One letter sent to the presenters concerned the pronunciation of the word "Pokémon" and asked that it be pronounced as "Po KAY mon". However, when the second half of the Pokémon episode "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" and included the pronunciation the presenters had used, Donnelly paused the broadcast to review the moment before making a small rant to camera about the letter and then ripping it up before allowing the episode to resume. It was not made clear if the incident had been a stunt and intended to make a point on the subject. Magic Many episodes featured the guest appearance of various magicians, who conducted small and large scale illusions on the programme. These illusions often involved the participation of Deeley as an assistant, in which she commonly was involved in the "Sawing a woman in half" illusion. After Deeley left in 2002, her replacement Tess Daly took over to act as assistant on later illusions performed on SMTV Live. "Wonkey Donkey" A phone in competition for viewers to partake in, which operated in a similar manner to that of Catchphrase, but required contestants to answer with two words that rhymed together to match the object they showed a golden rule of the competition. For example, the game's name itself of "Wonkey Donkey" pertained to describe the state of a small toy donkey which had one leg missing. Before contestants began, the presenters would showcase something similar, before taking calls from up to five viewers. Donnelly frequently often ranted in "anger" to camera when a young contestant couldn't get the answer, with the game often notable for featuring presenters using the catchphrase of "It's gotta rhyme!" As a rule, if none of the callers answered correctly, the competition would roll over to the next week if after three weeks, no one had answered correctly, the object involved would be abandoned for a new one. The competition itself remained notable in ITV, receiving a mock version on Britain's Got More Talent and Celebrity Juice. "Challenge Ant" A studio competition in which one of the young audience members would be challenged by Donnelly to give McPartlin ten questions they had prepared, usually based on that week's showbiz news. Each question he failed to answer correctly within a time limit of ten seconds would result in the child winning a prize. After the ten questions had been given, Donnelly would offer the contestant a chance to gamble their prizes on a star prize, in which they asked McPartlin a further question if answered incorrectly, the contestant would win all their prizes, but if answered correctly, the prizes and star prize would be put up for offer in a viewers' competition. Later episodes later gave the child contestant a consolation prize of a handkerchief reading "I lost on Challenge Ant", along with celebrity editions of the contest. After McPartlin and Donnelly left the programme, Deeley took over the contest under the title of Brian's Brain", challenging children to defeat Brian Dowling under the same format, with Daly taking over in 2002. "Eat My Goal" A phone in competition which used the Collapsed Lung song of the same name as its theme music in which viewers chose a celebrity, who would proceed to take penalties against McPartlin in goal while Donnelly hosted the contest. The format was amended with Dowling as the goalkeeper in 2001, with Daly and later Stephen Mulhern hosting the competition. In 2003, the format was changed to a different celebrity each week representing two teams taking it in turns to be goalkeeper.
"Wonkey Donkey" – Телефонный конкурс для зрителей, работавший по принципу, схожему с Catchphrase, но требовавший от участников отвечать двумя рифмующимися словами, соответствующими показанному предмету – это было основным правилом конкурса. Например, название игры "Wonkey Donkey" описывало состояние маленького игрушечного осла, у которого не хватало одной ноги. Перед началом конкурса ведущие показывали что-то подобное, а затем принимали звонки от пяти зрителей. Доннелли часто "гневно" высказывался в камеру, когда молодой участник не мог дать ответ, и игра часто запоминалась тем, что ведущие использовали слоган "Должно рифмоваться!". Если ни один из звонивших не отвечал правильно, конкурс переносился на следующую неделю – если через три недели никто не отвечал правильно, предмет заменялся новым. Сам конкурс был заметен на ITV, получив пародийную версию в Britain's Got More Talent и Celebrity Juice.
"Postbag" A segment for reading out viewer fan mail, which often began with the presenters, guests and audience dancing to the song "Please Mr. Postman" by The Carpenters. The segment featured three notable events during the tenure of McPartlin and Donnelly:
During the episode broadcast on 1 April 2000, Donnelly pulled off an April Fool's joke by pretending to be slightly ill when opening the Mailbag segment and passing out unconscious. A few seconds after this, the programme moved towards airing the second half of a cartoon, before later returning after a commercial break to Donnelly revealing the truth. A later interview with both himself and McPartlin later revealed the joke had been devised to coincide with the date but had been unplanned and frowned upon by ITV. McPartlin once had to read out a rather crude anecdote, that caused him to fall into uncontrollable laughing alongside his co presenter. The incident later was retained as a clip on the consideration that it appeared to be in the similar format of an "outtake". One letter sent to the presenters concerned the pronunciation of the word "Pokémon" and asked that it be pronounced as "Po KAY mon". However, when the second half of the Pokémon episode "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" and included the pronunciation the presenters had used, Donnelly paused the broadcast to review the moment before making a small rant to camera about the letter and then ripping it up before allowing the episode to resume. It was not made clear if the incident had been a stunt and intended to make a point on the subject. Magic Many episodes featured the guest appearance of various magicians, who conducted small and large scale illusions on the programme. These illusions often involved the participation of Deeley as an assistant, in which she commonly was involved in the "Sawing a woman in half" illusion. After Deeley left in 2002, her replacement Tess Daly took over to act as assistant on later illusions performed on SMTV Live. "Wonkey Donkey" A phone in competition for viewers to partake in, which operated in a similar manner to that of Catchphrase, but required contestants to answer with two words that rhymed together to match the object they showed a golden rule of the competition. For example, the game's name itself of "Wonkey Donkey" pertained to describe the state of a small toy donkey which had one leg missing. Before contestants began, the presenters would showcase something similar, before taking calls from up to five viewers. Donnelly frequently often ranted in "anger" to camera when a young contestant couldn't get the answer, with the game often notable for featuring presenters using the catchphrase of "It's gotta rhyme!" As a rule, if none of the callers answered correctly, the competition would roll over to the next week if after three weeks, no one had answered correctly, the object involved would be abandoned for a new one. The competition itself remained notable in ITV, receiving a mock version on Britain's Got More Talent and Celebrity Juice. "Challenge Ant" A studio competition in which one of the young audience members would be challenged by Donnelly to give McPartlin ten questions they had prepared, usually based on that week's showbiz news. Each question he failed to answer correctly within a time limit of ten seconds would result in the child winning a prize. After the ten questions had been given, Donnelly would offer the contestant a chance to gamble their prizes on a star prize, in which they asked McPartlin a further question if answered incorrectly, the contestant would win all their prizes, but if answered correctly, the prizes and star prize would be put up for offer in a viewers' competition. Later episodes later gave the child contestant a consolation prize of a handkerchief reading "I lost on Challenge Ant", along with celebrity editions of the contest. After McPartlin and Donnelly left the programme, Deeley took over the contest under the title of Brian's Brain", challenging children to defeat Brian Dowling under the same format, with Daly taking over in 2002. "Eat My Goal" A phone in competition which used the Collapsed Lung song of the same name as its theme music in which viewers chose a celebrity, who would proceed to take penalties against McPartlin in goal while Donnelly hosted the contest. The format was amended with Dowling as the goalkeeper in 2001, with Daly and later Stephen Mulhern hosting the competition. In 2003, the format was changed to a different celebrity each week representing two teams taking it in turns to be goalkeeper.
"Challenge Ant" – Студийный конкурс, в котором одного из юных зрителей Доннелли вызывал на соревнование: он должен был задать Макпартлину десять вопросов, которые он подготовил, обычно основанных на новостях шоу-бизнеса той недели. За каждый неправильный ответ в течение десяти секунд ребенок выигрывал приз. После того, как были заданы десять вопросов, Доннелли предлагал участнику рискнуть выигранными призами ради главного приза, задав Макпартлину еще один вопрос – если он отвечал неправильно, участник выигрывал все свои призы, но если правильно, призы и главный приз выставлялись на конкурс для зрителей. В более поздних эпизодах ребенку-участнику вручался утешительный приз в виде платка с надписью "Я проиграл в Challenge Ant", а также проводились знаменитые выпуски конкурса. После ухода Макпартлина и Доннелли из программы Дили взяла на себя проведение конкурса под названием "Мозг Брайана", вызывая детей на соревнование с Брайаном Даулингом в том же формате, а в 2002 году его взяла на себя Дейли.
"Postbag" A segment for reading out viewer fan mail, which often began with the presenters, guests and audience dancing to the song "Please Mr. Postman" by The Carpenters. The segment featured three notable events during the tenure of McPartlin and Donnelly:
During the episode broadcast on 1 April 2000, Donnelly pulled off an April Fool's joke by pretending to be slightly ill when opening the Mailbag segment and passing out unconscious. A few seconds after this, the programme moved towards airing the second half of a cartoon, before later returning after a commercial break to Donnelly revealing the truth. A later interview with both himself and McPartlin later revealed the joke had been devised to coincide with the date but had been unplanned and frowned upon by ITV. McPartlin once had to read out a rather crude anecdote, that caused him to fall into uncontrollable laughing alongside his co presenter. The incident later was retained as a clip on the consideration that it appeared to be in the similar format of an "outtake". One letter sent to the presenters concerned the pronunciation of the word "Pokémon" and asked that it be pronounced as "Po KAY mon". However, when the second half of the Pokémon episode "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" and included the pronunciation the presenters had used, Donnelly paused the broadcast to review the moment before making a small rant to camera about the letter and then ripping it up before allowing the episode to resume. It was not made clear if the incident had been a stunt and intended to make a point on the subject. Magic Many episodes featured the guest appearance of various magicians, who conducted small and large scale illusions on the programme. These illusions often involved the participation of Deeley as an assistant, in which she commonly was involved in the "Sawing a woman in half" illusion. After Deeley left in 2002, her replacement Tess Daly took over to act as assistant on later illusions performed on SMTV Live. "Wonkey Donkey" A phone in competition for viewers to partake in, which operated in a similar manner to that of Catchphrase, but required contestants to answer with two words that rhymed together to match the object they showed a golden rule of the competition. For example, the game's name itself of "Wonkey Donkey" pertained to describe the state of a small toy donkey which had one leg missing. Before contestants began, the presenters would showcase something similar, before taking calls from up to five viewers. Donnelly frequently often ranted in "anger" to camera when a young contestant couldn't get the answer, with the game often notable for featuring presenters using the catchphrase of "It's gotta rhyme!" As a rule, if none of the callers answered correctly, the competition would roll over to the next week if after three weeks, no one had answered correctly, the object involved would be abandoned for a new one. The competition itself remained notable in ITV, receiving a mock version on Britain's Got More Talent and Celebrity Juice. "Challenge Ant" A studio competition in which one of the young audience members would be challenged by Donnelly to give McPartlin ten questions they had prepared, usually based on that week's showbiz news. Each question he failed to answer correctly within a time limit of ten seconds would result in the child winning a prize. After the ten questions had been given, Donnelly would offer the contestant a chance to gamble their prizes on a star prize, in which they asked McPartlin a further question if answered incorrectly, the contestant would win all their prizes, but if answered correctly, the prizes and star prize would be put up for offer in a viewers' competition. Later episodes later gave the child contestant a consolation prize of a handkerchief reading "I lost on Challenge Ant", along with celebrity editions of the contest. After McPartlin and Donnelly left the programme, Deeley took over the contest under the title of Brian's Brain", challenging children to defeat Brian Dowling under the same format, with Daly taking over in 2002. "Eat My Goal" A phone in competition which used the Collapsed Lung song of the same name as its theme music in which viewers chose a celebrity, who would proceed to take penalties against McPartlin in goal while Donnelly hosted the contest. The format was amended with Dowling as the goalkeeper in 2001, with Daly and later Stephen Mulhern hosting the competition. In 2003, the format was changed to a different celebrity each week representing two teams taking it in turns to be goalkeeper.
"Eat My Goal" – Телефонный конкурс, в качестве музыкальной темы которого использовалась песня Collapsed Lung с тем же названием, в котором зрители выбирали знаменитость, которая должна была пробить пенальти по Макпартлину, стоящему на воротах, а Доннелли вел конкурс. Формат был изменен в 2001 году: в качестве вратаря выступал Даулинг, а Дейли, а позже Стивен Малхерн, вели конкурс. В 2003 году формат был изменен: каждую неделю выступала другая знаменитость, представляющая две команды, которые по очереди становились вратарями.
"Postbag" A segment for reading out viewer fan mail, which often began with the presenters, guests and audience dancing to the song "Please Mr. Postman" by The Carpenters. The segment featured three notable events during the tenure of McPartlin and Donnelly:
During the episode broadcast on 1 April 2000, Donnelly pulled off an April Fool's joke by pretending to be slightly ill when opening the Mailbag segment and passing out unconscious. A few seconds after this, the programme moved towards airing the second half of a cartoon, before later returning after a commercial break to Donnelly revealing the truth. A later interview with both himself and McPartlin later revealed the joke had been devised to coincide with the date but had been unplanned and frowned upon by ITV. McPartlin once had to read out a rather crude anecdote, that caused him to fall into uncontrollable laughing alongside his co presenter. The incident later was retained as a clip on the consideration that it appeared to be in the similar format of an "outtake". One letter sent to the presenters concerned the pronunciation of the word "Pokémon" and asked that it be pronounced as "Po KAY mon". However, when the second half of the Pokémon episode "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" and included the pronunciation the presenters had used, Donnelly paused the broadcast to review the moment before making a small rant to camera about the letter and then ripping it up before allowing the episode to resume. It was not made clear if the incident had been a stunt and intended to make a point on the subject. Magic Many episodes featured the guest appearance of various magicians, who conducted small and large scale illusions on the programme. These illusions often involved the participation of Deeley as an assistant, in which she commonly was involved in the "Sawing a woman in half" illusion. After Deeley left in 2002, her replacement Tess Daly took over to act as assistant on later illusions performed on SMTV Live. "Wonkey Donkey" A phone in competition for viewers to partake in, which operated in a similar manner to that of Catchphrase, but required contestants to answer with two words that rhymed together to match the object they showed a golden rule of the competition. For example, the game's name itself of "Wonkey Donkey" pertained to describe the state of a small toy donkey which had one leg missing. Before contestants began, the presenters would showcase something similar, before taking calls from up to five viewers. Donnelly frequently often ranted in "anger" to camera when a young contestant couldn't get the answer, with the game often notable for featuring presenters using the catchphrase of "It's gotta rhyme!" As a rule, if none of the callers answered correctly, the competition would roll over to the next week if after three weeks, no one had answered correctly, the object involved would be abandoned for a new one. The competition itself remained notable in ITV, receiving a mock version on Britain's Got More Talent and Celebrity Juice. "Challenge Ant" A studio competition in which one of the young audience members would be challenged by Donnelly to give McPartlin ten questions they had prepared, usually based on that week's showbiz news. Each question he failed to answer correctly within a time limit of ten seconds would result in the child winning a prize. After the ten questions had been given, Donnelly would offer the contestant a chance to gamble their prizes on a star prize, in which they asked McPartlin a further question if answered incorrectly, the contestant would win all their prizes, but if answered correctly, the prizes and star prize would be put up for offer in a viewers' competition. Later episodes later gave the child contestant a consolation prize of a handkerchief reading "I lost on Challenge Ant", along with celebrity editions of the contest. After McPartlin and Donnelly left the programme, Deeley took over the contest under the title of Brian's Brain", challenging children to defeat Brian Dowling under the same format, with Daly taking over in 2002. "Eat My Goal" A phone in competition which used the Collapsed Lung song of the same name as its theme music in which viewers chose a celebrity, who would proceed to take penalties against McPartlin in goal while Donnelly hosted the contest. The format was amended with Dowling as the goalkeeper in 2001, with Daly and later Stephen Mulhern hosting the competition. In 2003, the format was changed to a different celebrity each week representing two teams taking it in turns to be goalkeeper.
CD:UK
После выхода в эфир эпизода SMTV Live, за ним следовала трансляция CD:UK (сокращение от CountDown United Kingdom). Программа проходила в той же студии с теми же ведущими и имела собственный формат живых телепередач, в котором представлялись группы из UK Singles Chart, музыкальные клипы и интервью со знаменитыми музыкантами. Программа продолжалась еще долго после завершения SMTV Live и окончательно прекратила свое существование в апреле 2006 года.
Ведущие
Первоначально SMTV Live вели звезды "Byker Grove" Ant & Dec вместе с бывшей моделью Кэт Дили. В 2001 году Ant & Dec покинули шоу, чтобы вести субботнее шоу талантов "Pop Idol", и их заменил Джеймс Редмонд из "Hollyoaks". Однако работа Редмонда на SMTV Live продлилась всего три месяца, после чего руководство шоу решило, что он не освоился в этой роли. Дили ушла из шоу в 2002 году, чтобы сосредоточиться на ведении шоу талантов BBC "Fame Academy", оставив SMTV без оригинальных ведущих. В оставшееся время программу вели другие люди, в том числе участники группы Steps Ян "H" Уоткинс и Клэр Ричардс, победитель "Большого брата" Брайан Даулинг и Тесс Дейли, которые вели шоу с 2002 года, пока все четверо не покинули его в 2003 году. Комик Дес Кларк, новозеландская актриса Шавоун Руакер и фокусник Стивен Мулхерн вели шоу в его последний сезон, когда оно было переименовано в SMTV:Gold и стало представлять собой подборку лучших моментов за последние 5 лет, в основном из-за падения рейтингов после ухода оригинальных ведущих.
Писатели и продюсеры
Первый месяц шоу был спродюсирован бывшим продюсером Top of the Pops Риком Блэксиллом. Его сменил Стив Пинхей, а Фил Маунт стал продюсером CD:UK. С 1999 по 2003 год SMTV Live продюсировал Дэвид Стейт. В первый год сценаристами шоу были Ричард Предди и Гэри Хоу, а также Дин Уилкинсон, который оставался в команде до самого конца. В сентябре 1999 года Бена Уорда и Геза Фостера переманили из конкурирующей программы BBC Live & Kicking для работы над полу-сценарными рубриками, включая "Chums". После постепенной потери первоначальной популярности Live & Kicking, SMTV обогнал его по рейтингам в октябре 1999 года и больше не уступал лидерства. Многократный лауреат премий сценарист Дин Уилкинсон работал над шоу на протяжении большей части его существования, а исполнительным продюсером был директор программ Blaze Television Конор МакАнали.
Золото SMTV
Снижение телевизионных рейтингов в 2003 году привело к закрытию программы в конце года. Программа завершила свой пятилетний выход в эфир серией специальных выпусков SMTV Gold, включавших в себя лучшие моменты шоу и мультфильмы, которые вели Стивен Малхерн и Дес Кларк с разными знаменитыми соведущими каждую неделю. Серия Gold завершилась 20 декабря 2003 года, а последний выпуск SMTV Live вышел в эфир в субботу 27 декабря 2003 года, запись которого была сделана на студии Riverside в Хаммерсмите.
Отмена и последний эпизод
В августе 2003 года, после двух лет падения рейтингов после ухода Ant & Dec, ITV объявила об отмене SMTV Live, которая будет заменена программой, пока не имеющей названия, включающей "игры, скетчи, музыку и закупленные программы с расширенными интерактивными элементами". Этим замещающим шоу и стало "Министерство Хаоса". 27 декабря 2003 года состоялся грандиозный финал, в котором все ведущие исполнили кавер-версию песни "My Way" Фрэнка Синатры, а финальные титры SMTV прокручивались во время последнего припева. Кульминацией стал специальный фейерверк, в котором были выложены слова SMTV Live 1998-2003, и звуковые вставки с голосами Энта, Дека и Кэт из прошлых выпусков. Экран затемняется, и SMTV завершает свое пяти с половиной летнее существование. После титров не было представлено никакой информации об авторских правах. В определенный период эпизоды "Золотой коллекции" транслировались по субботам днем из-за утренней трансляции Чемпионата мира по регби 2003 года.
Видео-релизы
Сериал породил два видеорелиза – первый, Chums, вышел в 2000 году от компании Contender Entertainment Group и содержал шесть полных эпизодов Chums, а также подборку других комедийных скетчей из SMTV. VHS был переиздан на DVD четыре года спустя, также компанией Contender. Второй релиз от Universal Pictures Video, The Best of SMTV Live So Far, вышел в 2001 году и включал специально снятые связки, записанные незадолго до ухода Энта и Дека, и расширенную подборку скетчей и сегментов.
Награды
SMTV Live дважды была признана лучшей развлекательной программой на детских кино- и телевизионных премиях BAFTA (в 2000 и 2002 годах) и удостоилась наград BAFTA и British Comedy, победителями в которых определяли зрители голосованием. Ant & Dec получили награду Королевского телевизионного общества как лучшие ведущие в 2001 году за работу в этой программе, а Cat Deeley в том же году была удостоена BAFTA как лучшая детская ведущая. В 2014 году программа заняла 5-е место в списке 50 лучших детских телешоу на канале Channel 5. В 2001 году она заняла 27-е место в опросе Channel 4, посвященном 100 лучшим детским телешоу.
Эпизод воссоединения
4 сентября 2020 года Ant & Dec рассказали в интервью на BBC Radio 2, что они сняли специальный эпизод воссоединения с Дили, в котором все трое оглянутся на лучшие моменты SMTV. На следующей неделе Дили сообщила The Chris Moyles Show, что они вернулись на место, где снималось оригинальное шоу, и продюсеры воссоздали старую декорацию. Позже в том же месяце Ant & Dec опубликовали тизер в Instagram. ITV подтвердила, что шоу о воссоединении выйдет в эфир 26 декабря 2020 года под названием "История SM:TV Live".