ITV In the Face Episode 6: Anglia

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Made in 2015 to celebrate 60 years of ITV, a look back at a time when it wasn't a single channel but a conglomerate of regional channels, all with their own idents and identity: occasionally bizarre, often charming, this is the show that looks the history of ITV in the face.
Episode six: Anglia. The Wales of the East, starring Aubrey Buxton, Nicholas Parsons and some sort of puppet cat.
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@Mink-yu8nu 2 жыл бұрын

How could anyone dislike The Anglia Knight? He was iconic!

@anicetune 4 жыл бұрын

Anglia House is still going strong today in Norwich. Officially, it's listed as ITV 1 studio. Yet the lettering on the front of the building says Anglia Television in that old Times New Roman font. Another fun fact. Anglia Television Ltd was only desolved at companies house as recently as 2017. From 2006 until then, the entire ITV Network was officially listed as Anglia Television Ltd.

@antster1983 2 жыл бұрын

And BC is still in the window looking out at the people of Norwich.

@areasquirrel 4 жыл бұрын

Survival, Sale of the Century, Knightmare. I thought that was it, but from reruns on Sky Arts I found out they also gave us another gem, Tales of the Unexpected, which I would have been sure was by Granada. It attracted the kinds of big names you would expect of a Granada or a Thames.

@spatchlogan9507 4 ай бұрын

As a tiny child I genuinely thought the ident was the intro to a TV show about a metal knight called Anglia who rode a silver horse and got up to all kinds of metallurgical medieval shit. I was constantly dismayed that it didn't go on to show metal knight killing bronze goblins or rescuing copper princesses. Instead it went straight to 'Gambit' or the terrifying intro sequence to 'Tales of the Unexpected'. My mother tried to explain on more than one occasion the knight was an ident, but I wasn't a very bright child nor was I prone to being satisfied with reasoning.

@CJODell12 4 жыл бұрын

Anglia also took ownership of Cosgrove Hall Films, after Thames lost its franchise.

@Mishima505 Жыл бұрын

I was at university with the son of Steven Chambers, the late Anglia continuity announcer. We even got him to wear the university tie one night when he was doing the in-vision linking!

@AlexSpalex1 5 жыл бұрын

"WoUlD yOu LiKe A MiNk CoAt ElIzABeTh?"

@betaman7988 5 жыл бұрын

iT cOuLd Be MaDe To FiT yOu

@gorillaz_jigen3729 2 жыл бұрын

@@betaman7988 Elizabeth ....*scilience*

@Dogman2605 Жыл бұрын

@Jessica_Kirk Жыл бұрын

12:59, 19:48

@glassowlie Ай бұрын

Neat thing is that Anglia hasn't moved their studio ever since and still have the knight on display in their offices!

@whatamalike 5 жыл бұрын

Anglia= The major minor Yorkshire= The minor major

@Sheffield_Steve 4 жыл бұрын

I would say, in my opinion granted, that with exception to Thames & ATV, they were both major players. Anglia had it's fair share of actors willing to appear in their dramas or narrate "Survival" documentaries.

@nautilusshell4969 4 жыл бұрын

If I remember correctly, the Anglia knight was commissioned as a prize for a falconry competition by HM the King of the Netherlands - a prize he was competing for and that he hoped to win. It clearly didn't happen. The knight's pennant was modified to display the Anglia name.

@SuperGingerBickies 2 жыл бұрын

I read that somewhere, too. If it was HM the King of the Netherlands, the silver knight must have been crafted somewhere between the 18th and 19th Centuries. This is because, for the entire 20th Century, there have been queens - Queen Wilhelmina (who reigned from the beginning of the century as a girl up to her abdication in 1948), Queen Juliana (1948 - 1980) and Queen Beatrix (1980 - 2013?). It is only now the Dutch have a king: HM King Willem-Alexander.

@charliewatson4248 11 ай бұрын

I lived in Scunthorpe in the 70s and remember the switchover from Anglia to Yorkshire. Despite what some say both were good. Better than the generic shit we get now.

@jbtv7955 3 жыл бұрын

Anglia was good defentily when tales of the unexpected started in 1979-1988

@johnking5174 3 жыл бұрын

In the Anglia area - BBC Television launched from Tacolneston transmitter from 1st February 1955. ITV through Anglia Television aired from the Mendlesham transmitter from 27th October 1959.

@joannegray5138 5 жыл бұрын

I think the Anglia Knight is the perfect channel mascot for Talking Pictures TV.

@shrillbert 5 жыл бұрын

All that, and Knightmare too.

@AllenJeremy 4 жыл бұрын

And of course Gambit & Lucky Ladders.

@Matt78778 3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@jakubwidlarz 4 жыл бұрын

RIP Mr Parsons

@russmorgan315 Жыл бұрын

Knightmare was the greatest show to ever come out of Anglia. In the words of Treguard, they "came an awful cropper"

@Sheffield_Steve Жыл бұрын

Naaaaastyyyyyy! 😉

@kaitlinbilous4605 8 ай бұрын

Plot twist: the knight in the intro sequence is the Anglia Knight in his prime

@petertwinn786 4 ай бұрын

The statuette was beautiful in real life, but much smaller than it was imagined from the TV.

@TheTux 2 жыл бұрын

The woman witth long hair at 9:37 is Katie Glass and co-starring with BC at 10:35 is Helen McDermott. I wonder where they are now?

@CJODell12 4 жыл бұрын

Like I said earlier, Anglia ranks right in the middle of the ITV regions in terms of size, population and ad revenue (8th of 15, between HTV and Scottish)

@nicks4934 3 ай бұрын

Great memories❤

@robustreviews 3 жыл бұрын

BC is a leopard. I only know this because through work in radio we did a _do you remember_ type review of him. To clarify this was far an East Anglian station.... This was in September 2019. I contacted a few bods at the vestigial Anglia studio who confirmed he is a leopard and he now resides in a display case in the foyer, I also believe the Knight model is displayed alongside him. Until that point I had also assumed he was a bear.

@EuropaSman 10 ай бұрын

The Anglia flag ident sting was reputedly written by Lord David Dundas if I recall correctly. Growing up in the Anglia region in the 1970s through to the early 1990s, I remember that pre-Anglia flag ident era, when Anglia produced programmes were shown we didn’t get the short Anglia Knight ident, instead we got an "Anglia Presents" caption board in blue with Anglia logo & text in yellow and a cut out photo of the Anglia Knight. Feature films and shows imported by & shown on Anglia also had a similar "An Anglia Presentaion" end caption board and just before Birthday Club there would be an "Anglia Presentation" caption board.

@2008giles 2 жыл бұрын

I always thought the music at 14:23 came later and that there was different music in 1988. I lived in the Anglia region in the mid 1990s and this was the tune then.

@alastairjamieson1192 10 ай бұрын

You are correct

@erickpaolosantos7016 4 жыл бұрын

George Frideric Handel Water Music suite no. 2 alla hornpipe was originally theme tune ident of ITV Anglia from 1950's and 70's

@timg5tm941 4 жыл бұрын

Paul Lavers was a legend on the night shift back then

@TheGerkuman 4 жыл бұрын

My Region! Yeah, I know. Northampton doesn't usually count as Anglia, but that's the way it is TV wise

@RatzaChewy 4 жыл бұрын

We also got Central on cable - I think different parts of town recieve a different transmitter. Our status of being a county bordering loads of other more important counties is complete.

@TheGerkuman 4 жыл бұрын

@@RatzaChewy we never WATCHED central though. No idea why.

@antster1983 2 жыл бұрын

No, Northampton is certainly part of the Anglia region, served by the Sandy Heath transmitter.

@TheGerkuman Жыл бұрын

@@antster1983 i meant that census wise, we're part of the east midlands

@TheSmart-CasualGamer 8 ай бұрын

"That's the way it is." I mean, judging by ITV regions, half of the west country is part of Wales. (Not that I'm complaining, Hereford, Telford, Shrewsbury and Chester are basically ours anyway.)

@CJODell12 5 жыл бұрын

In terms of the 15 ITV regions, Anglia ranks 8th in size, which is exactly in the middle, right between HTV and Scottish.

@dylanmorrissey7339 4 жыл бұрын

For me Harlech Television were the least original region followed by Grampian Television 1 Thames Television 2 Anglia Television 3 Central Television 4 Granada Television 5 Yorkshire Television 6 London Weekend Television 7 Tyne Tees Television 8 Scottish Television 9 Meridian Television 10 Good Morning Television 11 Westcountry Television 12 Border Television 13 Channel Television 14 Harlech Television 15 Carlton Television 16 Grampian Television

@CJODell12 4 жыл бұрын

@@dylanmorrissey7339 I was going by size of population.

@davidmatthewvinotjr8396 2 жыл бұрын

16:47 Anglia won that auction by 3.7 Million pounds over Three East Television. CPV-TV also bid, but lost on Quality and had lowest bid. So, Anglia couldn't have bid much less than 15 Million Pounds and be safe.

@stuartkenny7430 2 жыл бұрын

Alongside Aubrey Buxton, Anglia's other figurehead was film producer Sir John Woolf, who produced John Huston's The African Queen, before winning an Oscar for producing Oliver! It was Woolf's clout on both sides of the Atlantic that he was able to get big names to come to Norwich to appear in Anglia's television plays and even Orson Welles' Great Mysteries and Tales of the Unexpected.

@123brownjames 3 жыл бұрын

Anglia was epic!

@seprishere 4 жыл бұрын

Hey, how can you forget Anglia? They gave us Knightmare.

@mikeclarke6796 Жыл бұрын

Excellent play out track

@annoldham3018 4 жыл бұрын

Tales of the unexpected.

@Viator19 Жыл бұрын

'AND NOW.........pissed from Norwich" - Ade Edmonson (Mr Jolly lives next door).

@MrDan1466 Жыл бұрын

This is the region I grew up in... (I live in Cambridgeshire)

@movesky6696 5 жыл бұрын

sale of the century

@annoldham3018 4 жыл бұрын

And now.....from Norwich....it's the quiz of the week.

@antster1983 2 жыл бұрын

*_W O U L D Y O U L I K E T O O W N A M I N K C O A T , E L I Z A B E T H ?_*

@Jessica_Kirk Жыл бұрын

In G major!

@Sheffield_Steve Жыл бұрын

I wonder how many people over the years including Paul Merton on HIGNFY got it wrong quoting "Live, from Norwich, it's the quiz of the week"?? 😂

@edwardburek1717 5 жыл бұрын

Did you all know that David Dimbleby earned some work experience working as a cub reporter for Anglia News?

@Jessica_Kirk Жыл бұрын

13:28 😂 Also, 5:08... Very funny.

@seprishere 3 жыл бұрын

Actually Anglia DID have fairly strong competition in 1991, inasmuch as a competing bidder had bid £14.078 million and had passed the quality threshold.

@TheGerkuman Жыл бұрын

Still 2.something mil they could've used on something else

@alastairjamieson1192 10 ай бұрын

Exactly, compared to Central they had to pay a lot for the same rights and, in that example, fewer overall viewers.

@seprishere 10 ай бұрын

@@TheGerkumanThis is what happens with sealed bids (unless the deal is that the winner pays the second highest bid).

@Sheffield_Steve 4 жыл бұрын

15:10 Paul Lavers (I stand corrected) who was caught out on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe (or Charlie Broker as Mr Lavers pronounced his name), having an angry rant on QVC. 😉

@ridbensdale 4 жыл бұрын

Paul also had a rant about Victor Lewis-Smith.

@antster1983 2 жыл бұрын

@@ridbensdale Yep, as seen on the broadcast pilot of TV Offal.

@reginahyde1488 Жыл бұрын

Phil? It's Paul. At least that other commenter got it right!

@Sheffield_Steve Жыл бұрын

@@reginahyde1488 Ooooh! Excuse me! Seeing as I'm from the YTV region I wouldn't know and also Mr Lavers, Phil or Paul got Charlie Brooker's name wrong he called him "Charlie Broker" if you watch the clip from Screenwipe, where he goes on a rant on QVC, so there! Additionally, I might have typed my original comment when I was two parts pi**ed, so again I don't give a rat's a**!

@Sheffield_Steve Жыл бұрын

By the way, Mr Lavers, where is he now? And how's Mr Brooker or Broker's career, eh?

@revinhatol 2 жыл бұрын

2:46 One minute complete.

@davidtownson1476 3 жыл бұрын

Why was this SO short?

@RatzaChewy 4 жыл бұрын

How the hell did Anglia produce the career-rehab, Sunday replacement soap Where the Heart Is? It was even more Yorkshire than Heartbeat.

@stuartkenny7430 2 жыл бұрын

I'm betting it was offered to Granada, Yorkshire and Tyne Tees before Anglia took it out of sheer pity.

@Lukozer 8 ай бұрын

Anyone know what happened to the statue?

@mellonmarshall 8 ай бұрын

um it is with the Norfolk Museum Service and in the Bridewell, or as it officially known Museum of Norwich

@reginahyde1488 Жыл бұрын

Why did you leave such a big pause between the line "photo booth" and the bit about B.C?

@applemask Жыл бұрын

Because I'm the world's greatest editor.

@Jessica_Kirk Жыл бұрын

@@applemaskSIKE!!

@Matt78778 2 жыл бұрын

And now from Norwich BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP one minute to zero this is anglia television

@MrNinjaFish 4 жыл бұрын

10:30 Sonichu on the birthday card

@timguthrie909 4 жыл бұрын

Really interesting. Please get a better microphone

@thatkaidonchannelcountryba3606 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@gorillaz_jigen3729 2 жыл бұрын

indeed

@paulhayes5724 2 жыл бұрын

Was the post office gag deliberate, or by chance?

@applemask 2 жыл бұрын

I can't even remember what it was.

@paulhayes5724 2 жыл бұрын

@@applemask Said the announcers looked like they were in a photo booth at a post office. (Although I have no idea whether or not the Anglia continuity studio was actually ever in the old post office bit of their complex or not - probably not, but it still amused me!)

@applemask 2 жыл бұрын

@@paulhayes5724 By chance.