The Rest Is Entertainment - TV Theme Tunes & Last Minute Movie Stars

Episode Date: June 12, 2024

Richard & Marina give us their top 3 TV theme tunes, answer who owns the Taskmaster house, what the timeline is between being cast & shooting and much much more. You can now sign-up to The Rest Is E...ntertainment newsletter for more insights and recommendations - www.therestisentertainment.com Twitter: @restisents Instagram: @restisentertainment YouTube: @therestisentertainment Email: therestisentertainment@gmail.com Producers: Neil Fearn + Joey McCarthy Executive Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport 🌏 Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/trie It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✅ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello and welcome to another edition of the Restless Entertainment Questions edition. I'm Marina Hyde. I'm Richard Osman, question and answers edition. I have a question from Matthew Bell. Matthew Bell asks, I'd like to know what is the average lead-in time from an actor getting the part to the first day on set? The answer is it completely varies. Sometimes you get a part many months in advance or if you're playing it in a TV series and
Starting point is 00:00:24 you know you're going to be the lead actor. The shorter ones can be relatively quick and you might find if you're just doing a short character arc or you're doing essentially a cameo episode you could get that job quite quickly. As I've said before, actors are amazing and they instinctively understand these parts so quickly. But there are some really interesting examples from movie history of people who absolutely take a part and make theirs because either someone has had to pull out for one reason.
Starting point is 00:00:47 I think Nicole Kidman was going to be in Panic Room and she pulled out and Jodie Foster went in and that whole performance is last minute. But then there are things like in Jaws, Steven Spielberg did not have Quint or Hope, the Robert Shaw character or the Richard Dreyfuss character nine days before filming started. I mean, that's almost like a three-hander that movie. Didn't even have the shark. The shark, obviously, you know, was very problematic. It was a squid originally and then at the last minute it got so... Well the shark was so malfunctioned so often and looked so, you know, looked wrong in so many
Starting point is 00:01:17 things that Necessity being the mother of invention, he had to essentially take it out of it quite a lot and and just use the idea of it and so you saw it as an idea of pursuit and yeah it turned out quite well for him. Viggo Mortenson as Aragon in Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson fired the guy who was Aragon on the first day and so he had to come in. There's some really sad ones like that. Back to the Future originally had Eric Stoltz in it and he started filming and they couldn't get Michael J. Fox, he was doing Family Ties which is a big American sort of 80s sitcom
Starting point is 00:01:49 and then they just thought it's not working with Eric Stoltz. They began talks with Michael J. Fox and said we could film in the evenings after he's finished to have Family Ties. But by the way, most of Back to the Future is filmed after Michael J. Fox has already done a whole day's work on a sitcom. That's like Alexander Armstrong on Pointless, he does Classic of M in the morning, then he does Pointless. I mean it's exactly the same as Michael J. Fox. It's very very similar, very similar to the Back to the Future thing. So they start shooting lots of scenes where they're only shooting Christopher Lloyd's coverage and then Michael J. Fox comes in and becomes Marty McFly.
Starting point is 00:02:20 Hugh Jackman, Wolverine, it was going to be Doug Ray Scott and I think he got injured in Mission Impossible and therefore they pulled in Hugh Jackman who said, I think this sounds stupid this thing, but his wife at the time said no do it, people are gonna like this sort of stuff. Turned out to be quite a good decision. There are huge numbers of people who come in at the last minute and make it work and it is something to do with that instinctive understanding and if the casting is right then it can really work. Yes it's interesting is casting directors will tell you quite quite often I mean you'll have a movie will be hung around a particular piece of talent. Talk about
Starting point is 00:02:55 Thursday Murder Club, you're Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley it worked out when when do your schedules coincide yeah and then that's when you film and then you start working with everyone else. And there's lots of people who then can't do those dates, of course. And we're a couple of weeks out from filming at the moment. And as you know, with all movies, all TV shows, your writing run up to the last minute.
Starting point is 00:03:16 I'm not writing, but it's being rewritten. And when you write and rewrite, characters get lost, characters come in. So there's characters who are literally only just sort of going in. So people are auditioning right now for a movie that starts in two weeks time. I think that's very common with actors isn't it? Sometimes you'd be like, it's very rare you'll get a job and say look it's in nine months time. But very often you'll get a job and say look you need to be in Wales in nine days time. Yeah. Speaking, Chris Columbus, your director.
Starting point is 00:03:44 Joe Pesky for Home Alone was an last-minute thing and thought I don't really want to do this why am I doing this but anyway turned up and aced it. I've had one evening with Chris Columbus I'm looking forward to spending more time with him and I'm gonna get so many stories about about Hollywood and about Spielberg and about them Spielberg's coming over as well so we're gonna get a load of stories throughout the summer we'll Q&A's that I can give to Chris Columbus or Steven Spielberg, just let me know. Yeah, just in the shareable file. Please ask them to speak shareably and of course non-shareably
Starting point is 00:04:17 for your own personal consumption. Yes, exactly that. One for you Richard, very much so, about darts cameras from Kane Whitehead. I've recently been watching a lot of darts on TV and noticed that the production is very good at zooming into the right number or being on the number that the player is aiming for extremely quickly. How can the production team get the camera moved to such an accurate spot so fast? Thank you Kane. Kane Whitehead sounds like the name of a darts player.
Starting point is 00:04:42 Yes, it does. You know, just somebody gets knocked out in the last 16 of the Windmill Masters. It's an easy one really. I mean, darts, there are certain ways of coming down from certain numbers. So normally we know that someone's going for the 20s, most of the thing, but they also know all of the players.
Starting point is 00:04:58 So they know that sometimes they'll come down for 19 if the bed is blocked. So they know for most of the game where they're heading. And at the end, when there's a checkouts, again, there are very traditional ways of going for it. But alongside the directors who were all incredibly experienced of shooting darts, throwing darts, shooting darts, uh, they have ex pros called spotters who will call where the player is going to go.
Starting point is 00:05:20 So they will know the players very well. They'll know if they want 111, they know exactly where they're going to go. If they, and if they score that, they know where they're going to go. So they will know the players very well. They'll know if they're on 111, they know exactly where they're going to go. If they score that, they know where they're going to go. So you've got these spotters who will call out exactly where to go next. You've got camera operators who are very used to doing that crash zoom. And you see it when it goes wrong. You see it when someone does something unexpected and you suddenly have to do a sort of very quick whip pan. But it's A, the predictability of what you would normally be going for, plus the fact that you do have Professional former professionals and people who know the game of every single player literally sitting in the gallery
Starting point is 00:05:51 Calling out to you where to go next like a kind of ask if they're in the gallery Yes, yes, they'll absolutely be in the gallery and also the commentators know where they're going to be heading all that stuff But the shooting of dance is one of the great joys of British television is you know, the split screen, which was invented by a camera operator in the 70s. So would this help? Yeah, that helps. And you know, being able to have those close ups on the board and on the players face and all that kind of stuff. With most sports, you want to introduce a friend to cricket or something. So come and watch a bit of the cricket and see how long they last. It'll be like four minutes tops. They go, what, sorry, what is this that even 2020 they're going, yeah, I don't know. What are you making me watch here with dance? They'll do four seconds of yeah, but why are they? And they go, oh my
Starting point is 00:06:33 God, what's he gonna, oh wow. It's like, it's so beautifully formatted and beautifully shot. The darts is a very, very easy sport to get someone. Yeah Yeah it's made it so accessible. All of those advances have made it even more accessible. And also because weirdly it has characters who you wouldn't cast in normal sports and that's quite fun for people as well. There's always some sort of, you go why has that guy got a green cockatoo haircut? And you think you know that's not like watching the tennis, that's not like Carlos Alcaraz. But yeah, Spotters is the answer to that. But Kane White Kane Whitehead definitively if I was writing a book now about darts player I might call him Kane Whitehead. That would be good. Yeah. Thank
Starting point is 00:07:12 you so much everyone for sending in all your top threes I love them. My enforced top three. Yeah. I've got so many now. What I call the Marina Hyde enforced top three section of the show. This one is from Kirsty Patrick. She asks, I would like to know your top three TV chefs. Kirsty says, I'll be disappointed if Gordon Ramsay doesn't feature. I would say knowing you know me, prepare to be disappointed. Prepare for disappointment. My favourite Gordon Ramsay moment was that soccer raid. We've just had soccer raid, as you know, it's a very, he's all in a good cause and there's celebrities playing actual footballers and there's a moment where Teddy Shering actually clasps him and it is. So no, he's not in my top
Starting point is 00:07:50 three. I would have to say that you don't watch him cook that much, but I'd have to say Anthony Bourdain, I think he's one of the most incredible people, such a great loss, a really interesting, interested person. I think he's absolutely amazing. My number two is quite unconventional. They're not real. There was a really small and short but so good little program called Posh Nosh with Arabella Weir and Richard E. Grant. Okay. And they play a couple and he's the sort of, who are TV chefs, he's horrific and she tries to be support of his wife, called Minty I think she is, and it's really funny. That shot, as we all know, is sort of, you know, in a staged home kitchen of a man and a woman has sort of helped
Starting point is 00:08:37 me. It's really good and it's very good on lots of the conventions of those types of shows and on human relations in general, very funny. So Posh Nosh, that'll be available somewhere. Posh Nosh, I don't know, you'll be able to find it, it's probably on YouTube. And my number one is Nigella. And she would also say, I've said maybe all of these are cheats because she'd say, I'm not a chef, I am a cook. I absolutely love all her food. I love her screen persona, which is really, as all of these things, they have to be quite authentic, is her real persona. Just the way
Starting point is 00:09:05 she talks about indulgence and she doesn't apologize for things and she'd never say the words guilty pleasures. And the way she's sort of quite inaccurate about things, she says, I'm so inaccurate. And I burn things often because I'm trying to hurry up. She is a sort of friend in the kitchen. And I really felt during the pandemic when none of us ever went out anywhere and meals became a really important thing, I felt like she was one of those people, even though I wasn't watching her, sometimes I would watch the TV programs, but I was cooking from all her books at home and she was a real friend to have in the kitchen so she is my number one. Shall I do my top three? Yes please do. Number three Keith Floyd. Yeah I was really hot to be hung off. Again, they show old episodes of him on Saturday kitchen,
Starting point is 00:09:46 they go to Keith Floyd, and it's a very sort of early form of gonzo television. He was like the proto-Clarke's and Keith Floyd. Yes, you're right. That's a really good way of looking at it. I hadn't thought of that. Very entertaining, cooks well, goes out into communities. Just so you know, so I love him.
Starting point is 00:10:00 Number two, just because I love his passion, and I think he's a great TV presenter. Again, I always come at this from a producer's point of view rather than an eater's point of view. I love Rick Stein. Yeah. I think he's brilliant. I love him on television.
Starting point is 00:10:14 I love again, his passion. My number one from a TV producer's point of view, which I think is someone who has turned the TV cookery show into real art. And again, he connects incredibly well with viewers. And my number one would also be Nigella. That's nice, that was a rug pull, wasn't it? Yeah, there you go, oh, you see.
Starting point is 00:10:33 Yeah, she's great. I mean, it's- Queen of all she surveys, quite rightly. Yeah, she's really, really terrific. Noddy Hussein is very, very good. Yeah, she's brilliant. She's coming up on the rear, I think, but- And all her recipes come out, which sometimes they don't with these people. That does matter.
Starting point is 00:10:47 Yeah, it does matter. But yeah, Nigella, she's created like a whole genre to herself and a warmth. When you turn it on, you know what you're watching. It feels so beautifully shot and it's very, very intimate as well. And it's always about so much more than food. Just as her writing was, she always talked about the possibilities of food writing, that can take you into something much deeper and I find it so interesting. I think she's brilliant on every, on all the different levels. So we can double-nigel her. And she is a, yeah as you say, she's a TV perf- I mean, a star was born. Shall we go for a break? Let's do that. Welcome back everybody. This one is very much for you Richard because it's about the Taskmaster
Starting point is 00:11:28 house. I'm obsessed with the Taskmaster house too so I want to know the answer. James Wyatt says I imagine that at the start of the show the house must have been rented by Avalon or Dave but surely it must be so important to the Taskmaster brand now that it is owned by them. If so, how many series did it take to justify purchasing it outright? Do you know what I thought exactly the same James? Funny enough I have to have some Andy owned by them. If so, how many series did it take to justify purchasing it outright? Do you know what I thought exactly the same James? Funny enough I have to have some Andy Devonshire who we did his favourite three ever Taskmaster tasks last week and I stupidly said Rosie Jones instead of Rose Matafayo for the chickpea funeral. It was of course Rose Matafayo,
Starting point is 00:11:59 so apologies to Andy because he certainly told me it was Rose Matafayo. That was my own poor brain and weirdly I was talking to Andy about the house as well because obviously I did Taskmaster in series two and someone keeps putting the location on Google Maps. Yes, I know. I've looked at it before. You know on Google Maps where it will tell you various places and they're constantly trying to get it taken down because people go along and actually... It's a black site.
Starting point is 00:12:21 Don't... Yeah, exactly. They make it like a CIA black site. It's not allowed. It's like CIA. If you look from Google Maps it's literally just site don't you don't make it like a CIA CIA if you look from your Google Maps it's literally just a crater yeah um if you do go along it's not an awful lot you can see it's the truth it's quite high gates and also it's on quite a busy main road as well so it's not like that's another part of it that you can tell yeah and it's nowhere near the tube do they own it now now i assume they did they still rent it they still rent it. They still rent it, which is, I guess,
Starting point is 00:12:45 because right from the start, they had- That's the London Reds, look, even the producers of a hit series cannot actually buy in London. Yeah, exactly that, and it's a funny little house. It looks, I assume it was like a gate house to something. It's very near a big gym, one of the big complexes, which I assume maybe that had a manor house, and this was like a little tiny gate house to that. That's what it feels like, because it's at
Starting point is 00:13:08 the start of a big long drive. It's a very unusual place. So I don't think anyone would really want to live in it, if that makes sense. It's in a very unusual place. If you want to look at it as a house, you'd be like, be like for this is I'm literally at the junction of two really busy Yeah roads. There's no other houses around. There's not it's and it's quite an unusual House, I'm not even sure there's an upstairs. I don't think there is it doesn't have a feel of an upstairs Yeah, you sometimes feel the little room where they go to might be upstairs where they the little room with the things at the shelves and There's the main room with the picture of Greg and the and the nice is sort of a living room. There's a very, very small kitchen.
Starting point is 00:13:48 There's a dressing room, which is the one room you never ever see, which is where the contestant sits while they're waiting for the task to be set up, like just a little dressing room with a little desk looking out over a fence. I mean, there's no view at all. So you just sit there and read the papers and have a cup of tea and you can hear all these noises outside as they're kind of moving things into places. But yeah, I don't think it's really something anyone buys a house. So yeah, they rented it right at the beginning and they're still renting it now kind of 18 series in or whatever they are. So yeah, I would say if you're a fan of
Starting point is 00:14:21 Taskmaster, there's not an awful lot to see if you do go and visit that house. Very occasionally when they're filming, they'll get noise from outsiders, people are trying to see in, you can't see in. So even if you go there when people are filming, all you're going to be is an annoyance and you'll be asked to move and it will be a runner asking you to move rather than James A. Castor. So yeah, there's not a huge amount in the tourist attraction of the Taskmaster house. But yeah, it's always been in the same place. Anyone who lives in West London, it's really near their house.
Starting point is 00:14:52 So when you get a task where it's like, order this, you just go, oh, that's easy. Because I've got the number of all the local cabbies and I've got the number of all the local takeaways. This should be OK. It's by the river, but it is rented. But I cannot imagine anyone ever actually buying it, although now of course you'd be buying the taskmaster house. You'd be buying the taskmaster house. I hope the landlord's not a real sort of rentier capitalist and put the rent up ridiculously and then says, and actually now I'm selling it as the taskmaster house. That I will find out, but knowing Avalon as I do I don't care what sort of landlord you are
Starting point is 00:15:27 you're not going to be a harder bastard than Avalon. I was about to say I forgot it was that that was who they were dealing with. Marina one for you Sam Smith has written in I'm assuming the pop star. Of course just always assume. Sam Smith asks I've always wondered how the channel numbers get decided. How competitive is it to get higher up the channel list? And does it make much of a difference nowadays? Oh, right, Sam. Well, it makes slightly less difference than it used to, but it's still hugely important. There are whole companies that will sell slots on the EPG.
Starting point is 00:16:00 That's the Electronic Programming Guide. It's called slot trading. I mean, they can go for 20 million pounds because it really matters where you are in those slots. And most people have a sort of hierarchy in the way they navigate their TV. And still most people will turn their TV on and see what is on. And then they will look at the linear EPG, then they'll look at, they've got any recordings, you know, that they'll look if they've got any recordings, you know, that they've have things that they want to watch, and then they might browse
Starting point is 00:16:28 on demand. So that is still, although it may not be the way as always, may not be the way you do it, it is still the way most people do it. And live is very important still, and there's lots of things that people might want to watch live either because they want to do it with second screens and talk about it while they're watching it, or because that's simply it's obviously things like sport, it goes without saying. The HD channels, which are the sort of normal, all cost of-
Starting point is 00:16:52 Oh, they're so hard to find. Okay, they're really hard to find. Because they're really far down in the EPG, only 15% of people watch those channels. People prize laziness far more than they prize picture quality. I do, certainly. My eyesight is so bad anyway. HCTV is a waste of money for me. I'm going to have to go down to, sorry, 2000
Starting point is 00:17:11 and what now? Yeah, it's really, nobody wants to do this. Now, freely, the updated version of Freeview, the new media act will give prominence that they just managed to get in the washing up period just before Parliament finished. They realise that they're going to give prominence on the period just before Polygon finished. They realized that they were gonna give prominence on the EPG to the on-demand players, so that the BBCs and the big broadcasters, the public service broadcasters. But what they didn't do, they omitted to do,
Starting point is 00:17:36 was to give prominence to the EPG itself. Yes, so they didn't actually do that. But they still do remember, the broadcasters always insist with manufacturers when they making the remote controls that they still have numbers on them. Otherwise you could just have your button for Netflix. You can have your button for whatever. Yes, that's true.
Starting point is 00:17:52 Yes. Yeah. It's really important. And the reason they insist it is because where you are and where you are in those slots is still really important and people know the numbers and they absolutely insist that manufacturers have to produce them with numbers on the remote control. Like every one of my generation, our remote control, my grandparents' remote control, always you couldn't see the one and the three because they've been worn out and the two and the four were like, I mean, I've never
Starting point is 00:18:15 watched it. So this new thing, so with the Freely it won't, so the EPG just won't appear on your front page or? They should have done that and this could be amended. You want to give prominence to the linear EPG because linear is still really important. People keep saying oh end of broadcast that's the end of linear. It's not at all. People want that. There's lots of things you can do within linear channels so those slots still remain important. Slightly less than they were but still very very important and that's why they go for these kind of huge numbers because it really matters and obviously the lower down you are, the better,
Starting point is 00:18:46 because people honestly get bored after two and a half pages. Well, there's always, I think it's because some people's remote control, some people's remote control can only go in one way. So if you're flicking up a program number, it goes one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, but some of them go back the other way. So if you press downwards from BBC One,
Starting point is 00:19:02 I think it's like Radio Essex Digital or something. Yeah I would love this is something if anyone out there knows that, I would love to know if the ratings for Radio Essex Digital are substantially higher than for pretty much any other radio station because so many people accidentally press down. Online you can go, yeah, and you can go back and I often find myself on those things and think how did I get here? But it's quite literally a simple slip of the thing. Yes, anything in the middle of the carousel is dead. Is in real trouble, like Gems TV and stuff like that. It's like a weird day when you're scrolling that far down that you're getting into, yeah, Gems TV plus one.
Starting point is 00:19:39 But you know, it's amazing things stuck in the middle of Talking Pictures TV is quite a long way down it, and that's an unbelievable channel. The hundreds are big because people know the hundreds. So when you know, if you're doing like something like on Sky 501 for the news, 503 for the BBC, which was a big bone of contention. But anyway, once you get to 100 and you think, okay, now I'm into the shopping or I'm now
Starting point is 00:20:00 I'm into the that matters. Kids, news. Yeah. The one thing right at the end of the EPG now on on lots of certainly LG, I don't know about the others, that is going to be huge and at the moment isn't and I suspect it's because where they are in the EPG is all the fast channels, which are the free ad funded ones where it's literally 24 hour a day, homes under the hammer or 24 hours a day, nothing to declare or just like a whole channel of this stuff, which actually I think the second
Starting point is 00:20:24 people find them, you know, 24 hour escape to the country. Yeah. If they did a bit of slot trade, yeah, those channels are becoming, as you say, much, much more significant. And if they end up because they're doing, they do better and better, they will slot trade and they will go further, much, much further up in the EPG. And we'll be able to see from who thinks the Homes Under the Hammer channel is really what you know which by the way will be worth a lot. Who thinks that they're doing particularly well by how low they buy in the EBG. There's like 24 hour pointless you can just watch that whole time. It's interesting Paramount make a huge amount of their money from these fast channels. People are making more and
Starting point is 00:20:58 more and more which is just taking your catalogue and just putting them one after the other so you can always dip in. You can always see something of a show that Comforts you or that you love yeah at the moment you can have a little scroll through your thing They're right at the bottom. There's loads of them, but I think they'll get they all get bigger and bigger and bigger It's interesting. Sorry. This is a sort of sidebar, but where which people who do you do? Who but who does he sort of buy out things when I was on the plane? I went on BA to the US it was so hard not to watch a Paramount show because they've obviously got done a deal and everything you see for so long is Yellowstone or Tulsa King, which is fine by me. But it
Starting point is 00:21:36 was really interesting, I thought, God, it's actually quite hard to see that they've got anything else because they run you through absolutely every single Paramount thing. Yeah, it's one of those things where, please tick this box if you don't not want to watch a Paramount cross-show. Hold on a minute, do I? Oh, I'm just going to watch one. It was, yeah, because we're lazy. We prize laziness as humans over almost everything else, especially in terms of our TV. We certainly do. Thank you for listening, everyone. Okay, riot24 via YouTube asks us, what are your top TV theme tunes, please? Top three TV theme tunes, yeah, absolute classic, textbook stuff. I'm just going to come straight
Starting point is 00:22:13 out. Number three, I'm going to say Rent a Ghost. I was, God, I was going to, I nearly put that in my top three. I was thinking about it. It's so brilliant. You're not really supposed to quote lyrics because then you have to clear them, but to pre-see them, if you have a mansion house and it were to require haunting, who might you call? You might call the people at Rent a Ghost. Well, I love any show that explains it itself
Starting point is 00:22:37 in the theme tune. Exactly, like Beverly Hillbillies and things like that. So this is the idea of this show. The Fresh Prince is full of different strokes. But it's good because some people, their entire pilot is this is the idea of this show. The Fresh Prince is full of different strokes. But it's good because some people, their entire pilot is this is the idea of the show. Yeah. If you've just got someone singing, what the idea, which by the way, my number one is also one of those.
Starting point is 00:22:54 Number two, because listen, it's cheating because it's not a theme tune, it's a commercial song that's used as a theme song, which people do a lot, is Peep Show, which uses Flagpole Sitter by Harvey Danger which is an absolute cracker and my number one again is a song that describes what's going to happen in the show and who the star of the show is. It might be written by a Canadian gentleman and it's a show, do you know what I was talking about the show the other day and there's a certain generation who do
Starting point is 00:23:23 not know this show at all, it's completely got lost. So the first thing I want you to do at the end of this episode is go and look up the music to this song and it's the littlest hobo. Oh! There's a voice keeps on calling me, all of that. And I could sing, and again I'm not allowed to sing it, but in my head I'm always singing it. I can't, I'm just about to create the full lyrics. Yeah, I mean you're not allowed to.
Starting point is 00:23:44 That's a really good story, story of the the full lyrics. Yeah, I mean, you're not allowed to. Somewhat, yeah. That's a really good story of the week explainer. It really is. It's a story of the week show, because I have to keep moving on. Littlest Hobo was a dog, an Alsatian, who essentially would turn up in various places. Somehow, I must watch some more Littlest Hobo,
Starting point is 00:24:01 because I don't know how the writers pulled it off, but somehow solve some problem. Swiftly ingratiate himself. Swiftly ingratiate himself for some meat. Got to be a good tourist. And then you turn around and he's gone again. Yeah. You know, every stop you make.
Starting point is 00:24:17 That has left things just a little bit better than how he found them. Exactly, the Litless Hobo. Would you have a top three on that? Okay, my top three are, it's really hard because I won to sport one and I am and it's a little tricky. I was grandstand obviously but I think I'm gonna go with the former Test Match cricket on the BBC, it's called Soul Limbo. Yeah, because also Ski Sunday. Yeah Ski Sunday was brilliant. Also on my Desert Island discs I had the music to the snooker. Oh did you? That was on my Desert Island discs, I had the music to The Snooker. Oh did you?
Starting point is 00:24:45 That was on my Desert Island discs, yeah. And yet I haven't put it in my top three. You see, speaking of Desert Island, there's a great Tom Stoffel play called The Real Thing in which the lead character is a playwright who's being asked to choose his Desert Island disc songs and he keeps thinking, you know, you want to choose something that's really intellectual, but actually your best ones are, and this is going to inform what my number one is, so I'll come back to that later. Number two, I'm going to choose the succession theme because it's so odd, it's so discordant and weird and it's such a mood and that's amazing when you think of obviously you see the pictures
Starting point is 00:25:15 and so you understand certain things about the show but the kind of discordance of that gets you into such a mood before and it goes on and it's a long one you can when you've got an hour television you can put a full HBO hour you've got the entire ad there's no advertising you can get quite into and I think it's so amazing and it really you know and people had it as their phone ring and there's something really unusual and strange about it. Your top three is much better than my top three for someone who's reluctant to do top three you're very good at them. Well number one and number and number one, because it's joyous, it's an oral explanation, but it does count as part of the theme tune, is the A-Team.
Starting point is 00:25:51 Oh, yes. Okay, so because I know those words still, and sorry, most people will be too young for this, but please just go on YouTube and watch this whole thing, because there's a voice that tells you their backstory, and then segues into the actual theme tune which is extremely rousing. I actually came back down the aisle at my wedding on the way back down the aisle to the A-Team. No way did you? Not the bit but not the voice. We came back to things can only get better. I walked down the aisle to lose yourself by EminemM. You did it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my god. You only get one shot, all of that, and Ingrid walked down to the long unwinding road.
Starting point is 00:26:30 Oh. So I kind of, I G'd them up. Yeah. And then the whole place in floods. Your top three is much better than mine. No, it wasn't. Yeah. Well, thank you very much.
Starting point is 00:26:40 Well, listen, I can't believe I'm using this phrase, but keep sending us your top three's. You see? Keep sending us your questions and top threes. The address is therestisentertainmentatgmail.com. That was so much fun. Thank you so much. And thank you for listening, everyone. And we'll see you next Tuesday. See you next Tuesday. The End

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