23/03/2016 Too Much TV

Exciting Times. Spoons At The Ready. It Is Wednesday The 23rd Of March.

And In 90 Minutes, Tony Rudd Is Back. We Have Got last year's

finalists with us. Hello and welcome to the programme.

Nobody does that better than you. Tonight, Jason Mohammad tells us

about Crimewatch. Susan Calman visits somebody who makes sound

effects for the telly. Plus, we will have some classic TV moments on

today's date, nearly 30 years ago, in Windback Wednesday. And the

knives, forks and spoons will be out as we chat to last year's Tony Rudd

finalists. First, we are one step closer to seeing live coverage on

our screens, by all accounts, from the courts. It will be part of a

pilot scheme which is expect to start within weeks. As it stands,

Crown Court are open to the public but filming is strictly prohibited.

I am sure I will be rushing off to watch it. And you will not be able

to sneak in without your fans following you now! In other news, it

has been announced that new Robot Wars host Dara Brean is presenting a

new show all about computer games. It will cover 40 years of classic

games, and as well as the latest gaming technology... Thank you for

that! I was more Spectrum ZX! Bless you! On that embarrassing note,

let's meet our first guest. Yes, Tony Rudd is back on our television

tonight, with 40 new amateur cooks aiming for victory. Joining us now,

Emma Spitzer and Tony Rudd. But first, a little taste of the new

series. MasterChef is back. Searching for

the countries best amateur cook. How long does this normally take? Until

it is cooked! Two spoons, please. Each week, ten new contestants

battle for a place in Friday's quarterfinal. I think it is

magnificent. Only the strongest will make it through to the final

challenges. Oh! I love that! Please welcome Emma Spitzer and Tony Rudd!

First of, do you have your own detective show on the telly?! With

those names! Tonight, the tables are turned, you get to judge the food

instead of being judged. How was that? I prefer eating to cooking,

definitely. So much nicer being on the other side of the fence. Every

time we went in, we did not know what was going to happen anyway on

the show. So when we went into taste other people's, the first question

was, I'll be cooking today? It is nice not to. You really feel for

them. It must be nice to be back, to see everybody. Yes, I always wanted

to go back to the studio without the pressure. It was really exciting to

be back there. The main kitchen, is it a fully functioning kitchen only

it is, but it is a studio. Everything moves around. Every day

you walk in, it is in a different format. If you are at home and you

suddenly realise you need a colander, you open up your cupboard

and it is there. But when you are in the studio, if there is something

you have not got, somebody has got to run off and get it for you, which

adds to the pressure. And there is a special table? The condiment Island,

yes. Sounds lovely, this time of year! What will you wear?! Tell us,

so, with the filming, it looks like it is really intense. How do you fit

it into your normal lives? You don't. Everything else gets put to

the side. It is full on. You rarely sleep. You are not really eating

other than what you are cooking. It takes over, absolutely, your life.

Where your families just constantly eating whatever you were cooking?

Yes. I think I worked out that I cooked about 17 lamb racks in

preparation for my first one. That is almost a field! At the end of it,

no more lamb, please! Tell us some secrets about MasterChef that we

might not know. We always get asked two questions. We do not want the

answers to those! Everybody asks, is it cold when you are tasting it?

Because it is a TV show, and we have got the lovely voice-over, the food

does go cold. But the nice thing is, they walk around the kitchen with a

spoon, they are tasting out of your saucepans, they know what it is like

when it is hot. And when they bring the food into us, when we are

judging, who brings in the third plate? And it is a runner. Everybody

is always fascinated, who brings in that third plate. Does Gregg finish

all the puddings? What happens with the ice cream, I imagine it is

melted by the time they get to it? It is in the freezer and they get it

out right at the end. You have to keep an eye on the sound crew -

because they will have it. You are all supporting each other on the

show, but when you are their cooking and you can smell burning from

someone else, admit it, you must be a bit... Do you know what, you are

not. It is the least like a competition. You are only focusing

on what you are doing. You have not got time to look around at everybody

else. You are saying that, he is going...! In reality, you want the

other person that you are cooking with to do well, and the worst

person on the day to go home. When someone has a disaster, your heart

goes out to them because it could easily be you as well. Talking of

which, we found your disaster. Which is great, as I think it is Gregg who

says, it looks great! Emma, that is lovely. Thank you. Love the colours.

Oh, no! What went through your mind?! Where is the nearest cloth?!

I kind of felt it happening. I knew it was going to happensomething in

me just said, those are going to well, something is going to happen.

One wipe of the cloth, it was gone. That's why you are a professional.

The first winner back in 2005 of MasterChef went on to open a

successful chain of Mexican restaurants. And there have been ten

other winners. Let's have a look at the moment which changed their lives

for ever. Our winner is Peter. Stephen. James. Mata. True. Tim.

Natalie. Simon. Over the years, John Torode's town

has got even deeper, and his hair! He is more showbiz! There is a

79-year-old called Joe for this series, is that right? Apparently

so. Yes, we do not know much. It is good, because 79-year-olds just used

to walk around going, I am 79 you know! Good luck to Joe! Initial

series, it was very much all about home cooking. We had chicken rapped

in pancetta and things like that. Nowadays it is phones and purees

and... Stuff on a big white plate. Yes, splats. When you got home, did

you just give your kids beans on toast for a month afterwards? Yes,

fish fingers were my saviour definitely. Are you going to be nice

judges this evening? We tried to be but there were one or two disasters

in the show. And it is hard, because you want to be positive. Yes, you

want to be fair, you want to judge the food, but you feel for them.

That is back tonight, tomorrow night and Friday night as well, eight

o'clock on BBC One. Now, I know that Aled and I make this show look

completely effortless, but believe it or not, there is a team of

professionals behind-the-scenes, helping to bring you this TV magic

that you see now. Isn't there, crew?! Yes! Susan Calman has been to

meet one of those professionals, a Foley artist. I don't know about

you, but I never leave the house without a stick of celery and some

boiled pasta. ,, because here I am in Essex to visit the professionals.

I am told these will come in very useful. Is this all there is? More

carbs for lunch! Foley goes back to 1927. Microphones at the time

struggled to record anything but dialogue. Jack Foley came in

afterwards to record footsteps. The sounds of the props, the actors'

movements, and added them to the final film. 90 years later, and the

art of Foley is still going strong. Barnaby is responsible for creating

sound effects on loads of TV shows - like this.

WHY DO WE STILL NEED Foley artists in this day and age?

We are adding the gloss and the detail to the show. Do collect Jacob

before the child dies... What are some of the most challenging things

you have had to create? The really hard thing is the footsteps. Good

morning, Mrs Crawley. I did not know you were here. I have never been in

so much pain in my life, Barnaby. You are walking on the spot, but

with a bit of movement. You just sound like you are carrying a really

heavy object. Steady! This is what we use for woodland undergrowth... I

am in a forest! This is Downton Abbey. One of the oldest tricks in

the book, cornflour, to create the sound of slow. And dishwasher salt.

Sounds like Christmas! To recreate horses. An old belt. I understand,

you kiss your hand quite a lot? If people on screen are kissing, we

generally need to cover that. You generally get a bit of nasal work in

there as well. I think I have got it! Did you bring those things? Of

course I did! Fantastic. Pasta is great for making squelching noises.

And then, if you want to break some bones... Can I have a go at writing

some actual sounds on some real footage? Yes, I have got a couple of

clips up my sleeve. This is simply a pail of laundry? It is a couple of

elephants floundering around in a watering hole. We have a microwave,

a car door, and a heater. It is exciting. It is, yes. Can you bring

that suitcase over? And the bit of plastic? I can do this...

Nailed it. Can I trust you not to make any funny noises as I walk

away? You would be Foley-ish to carry on.

He nearly did a joke! I have been working on that all day. Are you

going to dance with me this week? No, I will leave that to you. It is

time for Windback Wednesday! Today, we are winding back the clock to

this very date 28 years ago, back to Wednesday the 23rd of March 1988. On

this day, Kylie Minogue was at number one for the first time. I was

17 with a face full of spots and I had already released many albums

worldwide. I was 14 and wearing a regrettable perm. You would have

enjoyed the long-running game show Going For Gold on that date. I loved

Let's welcome your host, Henry Kelly.

APPLAUSE Thank you very much.

The greatest game show ever, it is up there. I like the thing. He

hosted it for over 700 episodes. If you enjoyed the theme tune it might

be because it was written by an Oscar-winning composer who also

scored The Lion King. All the contestants were from different

European countries and they had four rounds. This is where they walk off.

Denmark is. This is the second round where Henry Kelly used to say, who

am I? There used to say, Henry Kelly. There is Peter, I liked him.

This was round three. He looks very serious. It looks like a job

interview. I loved the head to head. I love Peter, I am slightly absurd

comic he looks like a baddie. I loved Henry with his tiny question

cards as well. Is that because of a great paper shortage in 1988? It is

because he has big hands. Later on at 7:35pm there is The Clothes Show.

Skateboard moment. That is you arriving at work. It ran from 1986

until 2000 and was hosted by Selina Scott, Jeff Banks, but we all know

Caryn Franklin was the true queen of the show. If it was hot right now,

it was on The Clothes Show. Here is Jeff Banks to explain. This may look

like an ordinary house in an ordinary street, but something very

strange is going on here. This is where the machinists are. Don't tell

me they are called Bill and Ben! I don't know. Hello, girls. How many

garments a week do you do? It depends, some weeks it is 60 and

other weeks it is 30. Hello, there is not enough highly flammable peach

polyester in the shops. I love the 80s, you could lock three women in

your shed to so with out questions asked. The TV show was so popular

and I used to go every year to the Birmingham NEC with my mother. I

always want to be spotted and be a top model. Did it happen? No.

Straight after that at eight o'clock it was Dallas. Here is a clip from

this date 28 years ago. Are you telling me she works for you? She

works for me? That is what you are saying. No, I am not. That is what

you are saying. I just want to help you. What are you doing?

More feuds than Celebrity Big Brother. You saw Larry Hagman and

Patrick Duffy slugging it out. It won four Emmy awards and gave us the

best cliffhanger of all time, who shot JR? Don't tell me. It was the

sister. After Dallas there was Points Of View and the news and then

it was off to bed to dream about brass. It was probably only me! Next

Wednesday we will wind back again to another date in TV history. Do we

have to? Jason Mohammad presents all kinds of programmes, rugby,

athletics, snooker, but he recently joined Crimewatch and he is here to

tell us all about it. Please welcome Jason Mohammad.

Crimewatch has been going for 30 years and it is a TV institution. It

is amazing. How did it feel when you join? It was a weird moment because

it is made in Cardiff and I do a radio show on radio Wales and I had

a phone call from the editors saying, I need somebody to read the

news on Crimewatch. I started off in the newsroom, and I have never

really lost that news edge and interest in crime. I said I would

love to. Are you about next week, will you pop down? It was a massive.

It makes a difference. I cannot remember another TV programme when

you are on edge and we are talking about serious crimes. Sometimes you

are standing in front of a camera and you may be doing a link and you

can hear the detectives behind you and they are getting calls from the

member of the public who have just seen a reconstruction and they are

dialling in at that moment. They are real detectives. Loads of people ask

the same question. They say when those people are on television, I

had a detectives? Is it quite nerve wracking being beside one of those

roles Royce 's? You haven't got a card disk. No, what is strange about

this is, see where Sophie is standing, I have to make sure I do

not walk behind her because it is a circular studio. You are given

positions and they are called offices and you have to make sure

that when she is doing her reading to the camera, or maybe doing an

interview, you do not walk behind her. With a cup of tea. 4000 cases

have been solved, who decides what goes on? I do not get involved in

that, it it is the production team and the editor. They talk to all the

detectives around the country and they work on maybe I'm solved crimes

or ones that have fallen out of the public domain. They almost rectify

what they have known beforehand. Cold cases. They really rely on the

public. Without the public Crimewatch would not work.

Absolutely and when we do the update show that is the really important

part of the show. That is where I may be doing an interview with a

superintendent leader and investigation and at the start of

the night they have nothing and by the end of the evening they are

talking about following things up the next morning. I have been

talking to a police officer and he has told me, they are finding that

person that very evening. Reconstructions have changed over

the years. The reconstruction as much an amazing. There was a

stabbing recently and I was sitting in the edit suite and I had tears

streaming down my face, I was heartbroken. The production team

talk to the families and these are families who have been devastated.

You have got to get that across. You almost have to detach yourself from

what you have broadcast. The idea is to solve the crime. When I was

watching it when I was little I was obsessed by Aladdin's cave. You

would say all sorts of golden goblets. That is how the show has

changed. It is an hour-long and we get through an awful lot. Somebody

next couple stuffed ducks. There is some fine china. Away from the

camera you do so much, so much sport. Is football the main dog?

That is my main job, my Saturday afternoon job went all the scores

come in. As a football fan it is a dream job. And your appearances on

Doctor who must have got you lots of fans. That is really strange. That

suits doesn't fit, it is an awful suit. That was when Russell T Davies

was writing the scripts and I was hosting a children in need dinner

for Doctor Who. I basically said if Russell T Davies is looking for a

new Doctor, I will happily do it. I sat back on the dinner table and

David Tennant was there with Billie Piper and the head of drama and he

said, do you want to be Doctor Who? This is why he is clever because

Doctor Who is done in Cardiff. Has there been a Welsh Doctor Who yet?

No, there has not. I became the cameo newsreader. I heard you would

not mind doing celebrity Masterchef in the future. I like cooking at

home. What is your top this? I make a phenomenal curry. It is not just

good, it is phenomenal. Thank you for coming in. Jason Mohammad. What?

You know what I am talking about. You cannot say that on national

television. It is time for the biggest decision of the day. What

are we watching tonight? Honestly. Sorry. Tonight on Channel

4... I was dismounting. It is like some kind of superhero whose special

power is pioneering prosthetics and he saves the lives of bully pets. I

love the show. Tonight it is or death situation for a great Dane

called Mr Jones. Mr Jones. He has got four in his neck that are

squashed. It is a big deal. The bottom line is we will lose him if

we do not do anything. It is make or break time. What is about to happen

in the next three hours means he will literally get out of pain and

live along and happy life, or will die. We are rooting for you. The

other pets featured include a three legged cat with a hip problem and a

dog who needs help with his elbows. Dogs have Albers. They don't, they

have got four legs. And they have funny bones. Also tonight on BBC Two

at nine o'clock is the brand new series which follows stories of job

seekers who have two rets or autism and who try to prove that it should

make them employable. In the world where the workplace is

set up for the non-it has been impossible for them to succeed at

work until now. Businesses are starting to realise that diverse

conditions like autism and two rets can bring creativity, innovation and

brilliance into the workplace. With the help of leading scientists they

were uncovered their unique abilities. The numbers kept coming

in the right order. How is she doing that? I did not see that coming.

That is impressive. It is such an inspiring programme. It is a 3-part

series. In that clip Brett has autism, but he is world class at

solving computer problems and after eight years out of work he gets the

recognition he deserves. It is brilliant. It is tug at the

heartstrings. It is on at nine o'clock. That is

all we have got time for tonight. We will be back tomorrow for a

springtime bonanza with Julia Bradbury who will be coming in doors

for five minutes. We have also got Carol Klein from Gardeners' World.

Jason, take it away, the theme June. I love this. Phenomenal. Thank you

to all our guests. Tell us what you think will stop. And remember... Be

careful out there. Oh, hello, Beth.

Hi, Christine! Hi, Cathy.

Hi, Eric!