09/03/2016 Too Much TV

There are some brilliant shows on telly tonight that we want to tell

you all about. Rufus and I are going to guide you through the ones to

watch. Since we last met, all this has been on. Come outside now and

claim your prize. What is it? It's a car. You know what my favourite food

is. A good pie. YES! I try to work for the homeless and they said I was

too depressing. You go Jordan, if you have to, but you're making the

biggest mistake of your life 678 Now, go inside. Come on, Neil, get

up. APPLAUSE. Hello. Hello, hello,

hello. Hello. Welcome, to TMTV. If you don't know than stalls for

Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles. It's Wednesday 9th March and on tonight's

show Mr Selfridge star Calum Callaghan George Towler is here to

give us the full low-down ahead of Friday's big finale. Presenter and

architect, Piers Taylor is here to talk to us about The 100K House:

Tricks of the Trade. Funmbi Omotayo is back out on the streets to ask

the people of Cardiff who the Best of the Best is on TV. Let's talk

about some of the shows we think you might enjoy on TV tonight. It's

Famous, Rich and Homeless. This is the first of two episodes. It sees

four celebrity volunteers, Nick Hancock, Julia Bradbury, Willie

Thorne and Kim Woodburn ditch their home comforts to spend six days

homeless on the streets of London. People think it's easy, it's not.

The rising cost of housing mean over eight million of us have enough

money saved to cover one month's rent or mortgage. For four famous

volunteers. My family didn't want me to do this at The prospect of all.

Homelessness is about to become a frightening reality. I don't think

he understands how tough this is. OK. It's a social experiment. It's

led by Big Issue founder, John Bird. He sets up the challenges. The last

time Sport Relief happened raised ?51 million. If you watch it you

have the chance to donate money. To be advised. That's at #.00pm on BBC

One. Over on Animal Planet. If you press programme up for an

hour-and-a-half. It's Insane Pools: Off The Deep End. Yes. From

homelessness to people spending too much money on swimming pools. The

world would be boring if we were all the same. You might one more than

the other. Light and shade. Award-winning pool designer, Lucas

Congdon, a real name! Turns regular homes into exotic waterfront

properties. The brief was to create an out door water room in which a

mermaid could live. Naturally! 1, 2, 3, check it out. This is it. Wow!

Oh, my God. You're under the sea. Oh, my God! You are under the sea.

This is gorgeous. Oh, my God. Waterfalls. Look at It. It's harded

to believe it's commissioned. When you have a hard day at work, Paul

from accounts - He has been riding me all week. Where is Bob? You want

to slump on the couch and zone out. That is the perfect show to do it

with. Mermaids, pools. It's on the Animal Planet. If they put sharks in

there it could liven up the show. Nothing makes a waterfront more

exciting than a cello. If you want to see Insane Pools: Off watch it

owes on Animal Planet at #.00pm. -- 9.00pm. Bethany in Coronation Street

does her best to stick up for herself. Is this where you live?

This is boring. How do you get someone like this? Don't the

neighbours complain about the smell. Go away. Up aren't you going to ask

us inside. Not posh enough for her. We know why she gets her superiority

from. The only person I'm superior to is you. When she goes

"hospitality" she has good vocabulary. Bethany hasn't told her

mum about what has been going on. She has been bunking off school to

escape them. Great casting. Bethany reminds me of her mum played by Tina

O'Brien. They are not related in real-life. Her mannerisms and the

way she looks. Well done everybody. Time for our first guess, Calum

Callaghan, he stars in Mr Selfridge. At the end of last week Mr Selfridge

discovered George had been involved in an underhand scheme. Le how did

it all go? Nothing to worry about Mr Crabb. Thank goodness. Are you sure

nobody saw anything? There were a few questions.s I fobbed him off. He

saw the fan vans coming out. I told him we were shifting stock. Are you

all right. You have gone as white as a sheet. We have to go to Mr

Selfridge immediately. Yes, it's Calum Callaghan. Hello. There are

more women in this studio today than there have been all week. I don't

think it's this moustache. They wonder in to use the fax machine or

something. . Haven't even got a fax machine, girls. What was George up

to in that clip? George and Mr Crabb get into trouble. We are moving

stock from self fridges to Whitely's because they are under an embargo

because of an unpaid debt much we are trying to help Mr Selfridge

outment we will get in trouble for it, basically. -- out. It's a big

show. Does it feel epic when you are part of it? Does it feel big?

Anyway, when you are part of something, especially for four

years, it's easy to get used to it and it starts to feel like normal

thing to be part of. Now that it's finished, I get to look back at it,

I realise the scale of it. The show has been sold to over 120 countries.

It's huge. When it finished - was weird. It Was it sad? Even now, I

don't think it's fully sunk in that in April there will not someone to

pick-me-up to go to another day's filming. That is when it will hit

home. It's been a pleasure to be a part of it. Nice. Jeremy Piven? The

chief. Is that what you call him, JP? Away or the Chief. He answers to

many things. I bet he does! What is he like to get on with. He is a huge

Hollywood star, sometimes that can rub people up the wrong way, did you

get on well? I got on with him well. I was a huge Entourage fan before I

got the part. He lived up to my expectations. Hip was great fun. We

had a few sports we are fans of in common. Nice to have something

something to talk about. Rounders? UFC. More contact. You haven't

played rounders with Sara? No. Very few people have come out of that

unscathed. You are chock-a-block with tip-top actors in this? We are

blessed. It's been great. I will miss them all. How much of the drama

- obviously, these things are drama advertised. You have to make them

exciting and interesting. How much of the story is based on the real Mr

Selfridge? A lot of stuff surrounding Harry and the Selfridge

familile true to real-life. Obviously, there are fictionalised

characters, like myself, you need to make it a TV drama, basically. All

of the stuff that you see harpy go through, the gambling, the women and

- he loses most - well I think all of his money in the He died poor

end. , didn't he? Penniless. Incredible to think he sort of

started Selfridges from scratch. It's still standing. A London icon.

The guy who started it all died without a penny to his He died at

name. 85 surrounded by his mistresses. Silver lining. That is

your theory, the way to do it. Blow ?65 million - You don't need to

leave your kids anything. They had you. That is gift enough. Go out

rolling dice, burning on the back of a motorcycle shouting, "hell ya."

It's like a - where did it all go wrong moment? Nice he inspired your

facial furniture you and the real Mr Selfridge not far apart there. Not

the mistresses we will say. We have a peak of the final episode. Let's

drink it in. Will you be going to the store later? Not today. It's

been a week now. Today's papers are here. I think we've seen enough.

Everyone else will see them. Surely, there's nothing left to say. Jimmy's

death is not your fault. We are seeing the man unravel, are we not?

He is no the bull we met in season one? Not at all. Is it hankies at

the ready? Most definitely. If you have not run out of tissues and

hankies from the previous few episodes, people have been dropping

like flies. It's sadded to see his demise. It's true to life life. --

life. It happened. What is next for you. I'm doing a play until the 21st

April. I'm running the London Marathon for some crazy reason. Are

you really? Yeah. Normally for charity? I'm running it for Mind

charity. Good for you. Are you doing big runs? Yesterday I did 15.2

miles. Well done. Getting there. You are inspiring and insane. We will

cancel your cab home. There you go. Leg it. Nice to meet, the final

episode Friday night 9.00pm, bound to be emotional. Don't miss it.

Thank you very much, Calum Callaghan. Great to meet you. To a

little thing we like to call Wind Back Wednesday.

# If I could turn back time # If I could find a way

# I'd take back... # We wind back the clock to a random

date in TV history and look at what shows were on the box that day. We

are going back, way back to - Tell us, when? The 19th September 1975.

The year Wham! Won the FA Cup. You are right. Do you remember who was

winning the hearts of teenage girls up-and-down the country. David

Cassidy. Was like we were in 1975 right now. Yes. If you have been

watching BBC Two, as you could have been, there were three channels at

that point much you might have seen Leap in the Dark or Newsnight, but

you would have been watching the first episode of Faulty Towers. It

was written by and starred John Cleese it put Torquay on the map. It

saw genius mishap after genius mishap. I do beg your pardon. I

apologise, I'm so sorry. Throw it away. Throw it away. Throw it away.

Throw it away. NOW! Though it! We have grown up with it. It's

obviously a stone cold classic. You can't imagine a time when it wasn't

a piece of the fabric of what it is to be British. According to John,

Cleese a BBC produce of the time said of the original script it was

full of stereotypical characters. They couldn't see it being anything

other than a disaster. It didn't review either. The Daily Mirror -

long John, short on jokes. Cutting. Ouch. Stick it to the tall guy. It

goes to show only 12 episodes made, what a fantastic dozen they were.

Yes. On the same night over on BBC One at 8.00pm you could have watched

Dad's Army. This is another all-time classic. Good heavens, look. Look at

this. Morning. You set fire to my door. Oh, dear. Excuse me. Just a

minute. Make way. Fantastic. Can't go wrong, can you?

That is what you would have got in 1975. Fabulous stuff thank you very

much. What are you... It's something I was

going to bring it to the show. Share it Puppets. People love puppets.

Hello become to Too Much TV. Things were going so well with your career

with the Shakespeare stuff. It's not easy. It's a long and difficult road

to become a puppet master, don't you see? Talking of long, difficult

roads. We sent Funmbi Omotayo along the M4 to Cardiff in fact to find

out because they will know the good people of Cardiff will know - If one

thing the Welsh know is puppetry. Who is TV's best puppet.

Puppets come in all shapes and sizes, but which one is the Best Of

The Best? I have crossed the Welsh border into Cardiff. We can settle

this debate once and for all. There is breakfast TV's original

motormouth Roland rat. Basil Brush. The original diva herself, miss

Piggy. The bird who wished he could fly, Orville. And a personal

favourite, Phillip Schofield's finest co-host, Gordon the Gopher.

That is our all-star line-up. Come on, Cardiff. Can I trouble you for a

second, what makes a good public? Comedy. Just the fact they are not

terrifying. Did you think Orville was terrifying? Yes! Miss Piggy, I

loved her in a way. Did you like Gordon? He was all right but he did

not say anything. Back in my day, Roland was the man. He was the dude.

Basil Brush. He was funny. Basil Brush. When you watch Basil you do

not always realise he is a puppet. It has got to be Miss Piggy. I would

go with Miss Piggy. She's sassy. I like Miss Piggy. What do you like

about her? She is the epitome of female empowerment. Childhood

memories. What about Basil Brush? He still looks dirty. My favourite was

Gordon. He made me laugh and he was cheeky. Still Basil Brush. Andy

Pandy. And deep Andy is not on our list. It has got to be Orville. The

people of Cardiff have spoken and now it is time to tally the votes.

Coming third on the public podium we have, my personal favourite, Gordon

the Gopher. He got 8% of your votes. Coming second and claiming silver,

we have the original diva herself, Miss Piggy, she got a whopping 37%

of your votes. But we do have a winner, drum roll please. The puppet

master himself, Mr Basil Brush. He got a whopping 48% of your votes.

APPLAUSE He is nice.

So, congratulations to Basil Brush, the people of Cardiff have crowned

you Best Of The Best! Sadly, Basil could not be here today. We called

him with the news but he did not pick up. Because he is a puppet!

Basil has earned his place alongside Ant and Dec. I bet they are chuffed!

Look how happy you are, you got to relive your fantasy of being a 1980s

weather girl! I am with C Willis all over this! It not much of an award.

Do you agree with the people of Cardiff? Is Basil Brush your

favourite puppet? Tell us what you think, go to the website web --

bbc.co.uk/twomuchtv. Or tweeter us with the hashtag toomuchtv. You

might want to mention Otis the aardvark. Or a the alien. -- a. We

live in a democracy. Our next guest is Piers Taylor, the driving force

behind BBC Two's 100 K house: Tricks Of The Trade. It shows normal

people's home is being transformed on the shoestring. Let's deal with

the ground floor. I think you should be doing a ground floor extension

and then add a big roof light over the middle of that. That opens up

the options. You really do have better living spaces. Dislike

looking at a different house. Yes, that is almost the exact reason

to get an architect in, but not any old architect, it is this guy, Piers

Taylor! APPLAUSE

The clues in the name. The clue is in the name. It is such a long

format show that we thought we would make another show looking at

existing buildings and doing a series of interventions in existing

buildings which in theory would be quicker and less complicated. You do

make a huge difference to these people's houses and their lives. The

one I watched last week, with the lovely couple and three kids, they

moved into a poorly put together house, they have since got married,

had three kids and it was impossible to live there. Children were getting

concussed with cupboard doors and you made it beautiful. They did as

well. The interesting thing about the show is in the real world of

architecture you control every aspect. You might have 1000 meetings

with your client but in the show, we meet them four times. The question

is, what do you do with four meetings? What strategy do you set

up to make the house work for them. You cannot control everything and so

much goes wrong. It is your day job so that goes wrong your reputation

is on the line, sunshine. Exactly, and it is all for real. When I meet

these people I have never met them before or been to the house. The

directors have no idea where it will go or what it will do that you have

got to make it work and make it work in one take. We have got to go away

from that one meeting knowing it will work and we can make a TV

programme. It is two things really. Do you think it is the stakes being

that high which makes it different from other tart up the house shows?

They used to just tackle curtains and something on Changing Reims.

Laurence Llewelyn Bowen with an industrial stapler! It is their

money and these people are suffering to builders. They are taking away

the roof over their head before putting it back. Doesn't television

thrive on that though, Jeopardy? There is real jeopardy. Most

programmes looking at existing houses followed the story without

any intervention. I think we are the first TV show that really

intervened. Or try to take people way out of their comfort zone. In

series one there was a couple who were interested in recycling and

sustainability so we took them to an aeroplane breakers yard to give them

bits of aeroplane they could incorporate into the house. Way out.

Here is a bit of cockpit. You will be there with the trolley service!

Have you had anything that will keep you awake at night? Yes, but you

have to care, you have to believe it can change the world. As an

architect, every project has to make a difference or you would not

bother. Tonight's episode is a juicy one. And something does go wrong.

You break the format. Some projects cannot be magically delivered. There

is a couple who ignored our advice and you can judge whether it works

or not. Clearly it doesn't! You seem a little biased to me! We have got

some pictures of your house. Is this a castle? It has gone very well.

I'd tell you why we live in this, no one else wanted to buy this

building. It was 500 yards down a woodland track in a wood, falling

down with nothing. We lived there for ten years like that. Only five

years ago was there an access that we could use. For ten years we went

up and down with wheelbarrows full of kids, shopping, in all weathers.

And look at your lovely house now. Middle house people around the

country are currently unable to breathe. It is battered by four

children. You have four kids and just the one toy? That is a huge

conceit. I like the idea that your wife and four kids are high-end to

you when you are taking the picture, get back and make it look tidy. If

you want to see what happens when people ignore peers, it is eight

o'clock on BBC Two. Thank you very much, Piers Taylor everybody! Time

now for our biggest decision of the day, not should we not through and

add a conservatory, but what are we watching tonight?

We begin our recommendations with 10pm, Channel 4, Raised By Wolves.

People of exceptional comedy taste love this show. Sarah does as well.

It is a comedy sitcom set on a Wolverhampton council estate and it

follows six siblings and their single mother Della Garry played by

the wonderful Rebekah Staton. Things are not going well when the landlady

starts taking suspicious pictures. All right, you have measured my

cupboards and now you're going for the double aspect money shot. You

are selling it, aren't you? I will be honest, there are really big

things in this area. I want to give you this, it is... I know what an

eviction notice looks like. If your after a bold and witty

sitcom with wonderful performances and funny situations and you've

wondered what happened with the dad in the first series, that story is

rounded up in tonight's said. Also, you will love this show on BBC One,

Shop Well For Less. My favourite! Business journalist Steph McGovern

and Alex Jones help frivolous families cut down on their spending.

Tonight there with the Allen family who are keen on frittering their

cash away. To get this family to face up to the

reality of their spending, Alex and I need to show them how excessive it

has been. Oh, my God, that is my wardrobe! It is not all your stuff

but a lot of it. I did not know it was ours. How come you are surprised

that there are three hoovers, they were in your house!

I love television that has that noise on a loop! I would not want

the contents of my wardrobe to be on telly. That sounds more sinister

than I meant it to. It is just clothes. Steph and Alex follow them

around while they are shopping and spy on them. That is creepy! Shop

world for less on beauty one at 8pm tonight -- Shop Well For Less. Alex

and I will be back tomorrow -- Aled and I will be back tomorrow. What TV

theme show will we play out with tonight? Are You Being Served. Tell

us what you are thinking about the telly you are watching on

bbc.co.uk/twomuchtv or tweet us using the hashtag toomuchtv. It is

hard to dance to this theme tune. Good night.