10/03/2016 Too Much TV

It's Thursday and over the next half hour, Aled

and I are going to guide you through the best

But before we do, here are some of the highlights

It's all right, we're all on the same side. That house were

absolutely spotless when we moved in. When I do my sit-ups! How I use

the' smack I constantly ask myself the same question.

Coming up - temperatures are rising, pulses are racing

and toenails are ingrowing as GP Matthew Chambers from BBC1's

And we find out which classic TV show Funmbi Omotayo

would like to bring back to our screens -

Plus, Susan Calman is here to share some of the greatest

clips of TV stars getting the giggles.

And we go behind the scenes at A Question of Sport.

But first up, there's some great shows on tonight

One I'm really looking forward to at 8 o'clock on BBC2

is a show called The Secret History of My Family.

It's made by the same team who made Who Do You Think You Are but in

this four part series it puts a spin on proceedings.

It starts back in history with infamous figures and then finds

out what has become of their modern day descendants.

Now, using the Explorers's meetings with the underclass, we have traced

their descendants from Victorian times, all the way down to the

present day, to find out, what happened to the families that

history forgot? To think about where our family has come in 200 years

from just one girl, she would be amazed. I like the dramatic

voice-over man! We think this could be

a bit of a hit show. This episode looks at the Gadbury

sisters from Victorian The three girls were like a scene

from Oliver Twist - child pickpockets who frequently

robbed the upper classes. Two of the sisters were packed off

to the 'thief colony' Australia and one

remained here in the UK. A bit later over on ITV

at 8.30 is The Cruise. It's the second episode of this

fly-on-the wall documentary aboard There are three and a half thousand

holiday-makers on board and the crew has two catered for all sorts of

requests, cocktails to carnations. Aiming for a 5-star service. So many

mouths to feed, the ship runs one of the biggest kitchens in the world.

Preparing 20,000 meals a day. This is of course the same show that

gave us Jane MacDonald Can we just have a moment to

remember her! The ship is as long

as The Eiffel Tower and weighs The Regal Princess is travelling

from Copenhagen to St Petersburg and has

1,400 crew members. I thought it would be like, 20!

Someone to drive it, a chef... There are people who spent five

months a year on it. Last week, they said it was for the newlywed and the

nearly dead. Well, those are just

a couple of tonight's picks, we'll have more recommendations

later on in the show. But if you think we're missing

a show that we should be talking about, let us know

by tweeting # toomuchtv Last night we caused

quite the furore Our Best of the Best Puppet poll

stirred up all sorts Mainly confusion and anger. I was

shouting climate! Miss Piggy was on there, Kermit wasn't.

Even the winner, Basil Brush himself tweeted -

Our first guest plays GP Daniel Granger in the long running

He's had a bit of a tough time with

a gambling addiction, hostage situation and the kidnapping

Here he is getting the wrong end of the stick when he

interrupts his wife in a private moment.

I want to help, Zara, really I do. Daniel! Stay away from her! Stop it,

both of you! You are not normally that hot

tempered. When he first joined the show, he was. Was he a bit of a bad

boy? He was naughty, he was a single man, up to no good, he was pill

popping, drinking too much, but he has calmed down, family man. Doctors

has been on the screen for 16 years, the people who haven't caught it,

why should they watch it? It's a show in and of itself, you can tune

in on any day and you would see a whole episode, the serial weaving

through the story of the day, a complete episode, that's wonderful

in itself. You cover some really big stories and contentious subjects. I

recently finished a postnatal depression storyline, we hear mostly

about women's maternal depression but it does happen to men, it covers

a range... Not many laughs! With the whole of Doctors. It is quite tough.

Some of the storylines. We're never shy of addressing people up in fancy

dress. The comedy is subtle. You have been in it for nine years, are

you going for the four Ken Barlow? Have to wait and see! It's

interesting with soap actors, they seem to stick in soaps for a long

time. Does it begin to feel like a day job and did you ever feel like

my want to tread the boards. I know you do a bit of directing on this. I

think it's great to have a regular job which I love, the directing is

fantastic it allows you to step away from your day job as such, the

directing from start to finish is an month so you get a chance to be away

from your regular cake. But of course I would like to get out there

and see what's available, theatre, film, telly. When you get a regular

gig, it's so good. Where is it filmed? Very close to the Cadbury

building in Birmingham, Selly Oak. How much time does it take up 's

with film Monday to Friday. The hours are long. The depends how busy

you are storyline wise. Do you commute or live up there? I live

about an hour away. If I have an early start, I stay over. Are you

planning on following him? I am! You are obviously our favourite TV

doctor, but there are some other TV doctors, who is your favourite?

Nurse Jackie at the moment. Flying doctors. We have a picture! Doctor

Callahan, was he an inspiration? Just the idea of flying to work,

that is cool. We got together our top three TV doctors, we have Doc

Martin being played by Martin Clunes at number three. Are you all right?

At number two comments the genius doctor who makes everyone around

him, Gregory House. The man is in a coma! You are getting crumbs all

over him. Why do you think they put a TV in a coma patient's room

anyway. He's reportedly paid 250 grand per episode of House, so he

earned about ?1600 in that clip! At number one, Doctor Doug Ross, AKA

George Clooney. Wow. Nearly drowning, bad vibes, but

every cloud has a silver lining if you get rescued by George Clooney.

I'm only interested in... Great to see you.

Now, sometimes when I think back to my childhood,

way, way back in time, I think about all the brilliant TV

shows which you just don't see on telly anymore.

Well so does Funmbi Omotayo, so he's rummaged round

the archives to pull out a programme which he really wants

I would like to bring back Blankety Blank. They repeated that in the

theme tune about 50 times, you knew what programme you were watching!

There was no, what are we watching again? Living in a council flat in

Hackney, we had a TV in the corner. The only show where we have to force

the contestants to accept the prize is! It was a game show, it was

unique. Last much really was a night at the opera. Carmine looked like...

She even had his... You would laugh at the responses. You had this basic

set, it would come round the spinning wheel. There was no point

system on the board, you just flicked over a flap. Less is more.

The original host was Terry Wogan. Look at this silly Mike, I mean

really. My hero was Les Dawson. He was just an incredible host. Let's

make the people who come on here to win major prizes. That was my first

introduction to stand up and presenting, he would do a monologue.

To any viewer who may have inadvertently strayed onto this

channel, please do the door with your controls, I really do look like

this. When he was messing with the celebrities or the contestants can

he never put a foot wrong. I love that hairstyle! How many ghosts did

you meet? He was like a pub landlord, he had his mates round and

decided to do a quiz show. This is the only quiz show I know that gets

fire salvage prizes. He took them the out of the actual show. The

prizes were very low-end and budget. Banquet at home with a cutlery set.

I think you will agree that gives you a whole new meaning to the word

drab. The standout thing for me had to be the Blankety Blank Cheque Book

and Pen. That is what you got if you lost. It is the classic double

entendre. The fiery to is being sued by his assistant after he sneezed

and singed her a blank or blank... As a kid, it is going over your

head. My ugliness as a baby was highly confusing. The nurse put a

nappy on my face, and you just would not believe where she stuck my first

ever... It was a good family show. It was something you could all

participate in. It was a classic show, it was just amazing. That's

why I would like to bring back Blankety Blank.

# Supermatch game, supermatch game, supermatch game!

You keep messing up the end bit! Love that clip, though. Supermatch

game! Now, I don't know about you,

but I'm always laughing Here to tell us about corpsing,

and why so many actors and presenters just can't

help doing it on TV, is someone who knows

all about laughter, it's comedian APPLAUSE

Welcome, Susan! You are meant to be out and about,

welcome to the sofa! Thank you very much. First of all I think we should

see a clip of one of the worst offenders.

Before we talk about it, why don't we look at one

of the worst offenders, a man who once he gets the giggles,

Not again! Not again! Still got a mouthful of beef! Not again! They

are so naughty, I love them! That cake looked nice as well.

It's an old theatrical term for when an actor

unintentionally breaks character by laughing.

It has been recorded as far back as 1859 in JC Hotten's Dictionary

No-one is quite sure, but the best guess is that it comes

from a time when an actor absolutely can't laugh,

If you laugh, then you're in real trouble.

This is where corpsing probably comes from.

Now, corpsing is usually edited out of a programme,

but sometimes it makes it into the final show.

Here is a clip from an episode of Friends.

Phoebe - Lisa Kudrow - is screeching along

with the bagpipes, whilst Rachel - Jennifer Aniston -

can be seen clearly breaking into laughter next to her.

She is either a brilliant actress or she has just gone. She has just

gone. She kind of looks at the others, like... She is waiting to

see if the director says stop. It is just a beautiful thing. It is one of

my favourite clips from Friends. So why is it when someone

starts laughing, it sets According to a study

from University College London, Dr Sophie Scott and her fellow

researchers played a series of sounds to volunteers and measured

the responses in their brain When they played laughter,

the brain prepared the muscles in the face

to move in a positive way. Laughter really is infectious,

and we really can't help ourselves smiling or joining

in when we see people laughing. You remember those moments from

assembly when you are little. And your mate Debbie sets you off. Let's

phone Debbie! She is here now! Somebody sets you off in assembly.

And it happens on telly as well with co-stars.

Corpsing is normally accidental, but there are always those

who deliberately try to make their co-stars

He used to try and make Dudley Moore break out of character all the time,

as you can see here in this snippet from Not Only But Also.

I come in. About half past 11 at night, we have been having a couple

of drinks, I remember. I come in, I get into bed, you see, feeling quite

sleepy... Superb, he had to have that point! He needs to act Chile

physically grab something to prevent it going badly wrong! Is it actually

true that laughter is the best medicine?

Well actually, we all know when you're not supposed to laugh,

Research shows that people do feel less pain after a good

laugh, because it can cause the body to release chemicals

Professor Robin Dunbar of Oxford University,

who led the research, believes that uncontrollable

laughter releases chemicals called endorphins into the body,

which, as well as generating mild

Who are the worst offenders? Well, I love Mrs Browns' Boys. The

atmosphere is amazing when they fill it. And Brendan really makes the

cast laugh. Watch this. Where is it? I'm sorry, love. Where is it?!

Genuine laughter. And before you go...

And we couldn't do a corpsing item without this clip

of Bradley Walsh, struggling to keep a straight face

after hearing the name Fanny Schmeller.

It is a funny name. Did we find out, was it swimming, show-jumping or

skiing?! You will never know! That's why we sent Olympic

athlete Louise Hazel to meet Sue Barker, Matt Dawson

and Tuffers on the set of A Question of Sport,

to fill us in on what really happens A Question Of Sport has been on our

screens since the 5th of January 19 70. In that time there have been

three hosts, 14 team captains and more than 1100 episodes. It has the

hardest working crew in the business. You are the floor manager.

You are in charge of everything which goes on. How does it all come

together? Normally we do three shows a day. We have a break between each.

We come in in the morning and we have some standings to go through

all of the questions and the components. Lighting, sound and of

course the setting crew. Gareth, you have been here 17 years? Yes, 1999,

I started. Are there any secrets or facts that we do not know about?

Steffi Graf has been used as an answer more than anyone else in the

history of A Question Of Sport. So next time I am on the show, take a

punt with Steffi Graf? Not if the question is on Rugby league. You

fancy sitting in and having a go in rehearsal? I would love to. I am not

going to lie, it is my turn in the captain's chair. Don't tell Tuffers.

In boxing, you are hitting the... Punchbag. Got it. Famous singer... A

Question Of Sport cast and crew, if they were a football team, then the

centre forward would be Sue Barker. Welcome to a very special edition of

A Question Of Sport... I used to love coming on as a guest, and David

Coleman, who did it before, actually suggested me as the next host. I

thought, this is amazing, I hope I can do it for a year or two. Here I

am 19 years later. It is a dream job. What makes it, is it the

guests? Absolutely. And we try and challenge the boys as well, the

captains. They say you are not meant to have a favourite. That is not

fair! Three shows a day must be gruelling. , because they are all so

different, it seems to fly by. Good luck! Off I go! The audience is in,

the cameras are set. Sue is in her chair. We are just waiting for the

guests to arrive. Behind the scenes, we are literally onstage! OK, and

off you go. Hello and welcome to the show. The captains are raring to go,

but who will be winners tonight? Ladies and gentlemen, big round of

applause, please, for our teams! You what the show presumably when you

were growing up? Oh, yes. For me it was a big deal. The amount of people

that still come on and say they have not made it in sport until they have

been on A Question Of Sport. With three shows in a day, how do you

keep that energy up? I don't know whether you should answer that. No,

perhaps not. Who won the World Cup in 1966? Pass. Have a guess. Who

would it be? Tim Henman. Why? He was very good at years. Capital cities.

She has got her coat on... A big thank you to all of our guests. We

will see you soon. Bye-bye. Time now for the biggest

decision of the day. Quite a lot of sport for us tonight,

as on Sky One at 9 o'clock Hosted by James Corden,

this episode is the last in the series and is a best of,

which I think sometimes are better Here's working class

hero Freddie Flintoff, on the left, taking on supposed

fencing expert Jack Whitehall. Ready, played! Oh! Oh, my goodness!

Two each! APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

No! No! If that's your kind of thing,

as well as catching up on the shows, there's also loads

of bloopers and corpsing online You've been on the show

haven't you, Sara? Yes, it was very good. I had to

shoot hoops, netball style. And if it did not go in, you fall into a

trap door, into a massive tank of water. We have got the trapdoor!

That's A League of Their Own, on tonight at 9 o'clock on Sky One.

Continuing with the doctor theme from earlier, tonight on Channel 5

Tonight is the first in a new series which follows the work

of the Air Ambulance and the doctors and nurses of The Royal

In a month, this is 10 million people. At some point someone could

run into trouble. Narrator label the Royal London Hospital, home to the

UK's most experienced trauma team. We hear the helicopter land. We are

expecting a patient, and ultimately I just want them to get in here.

They do fantastic work. I will not be watching that tonight! , I know

who will, evident in! She loves blood and gore.

I will be back here at the same time tomorrow with Emma

But before we go, what TV theme tune are we going to play

Over the shoulder! Of course, it is Doctor Who.

A huge thank you to Matthew and Susan.

Join us tomorrow, when Tim Vine will be here in the studio

ahead of the final of Let's Play Darts for Sport Relief.

Plus, we'll be talking about the history of Eurovision

on TV with this year's UK entrants, Joe and Jake.

Enjoy your evening and tell us what you think

of all tonight's telly on bbc.co.uk/twomuchtv.

thank you for watching, we'll see you again tomorrow