After 50 years of writing comedy for most of the UK's highest-profile comics and performers, Colin now chats with those who work behind the scenes in television: from the camera operators, and sound supervisors to the directors and producers; and in show business: from the stars to the stagehands - who all share their never-before-heard memories and anecdotes.
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VICTORIA WOOD & DINNERLADIES, THE YOUNG ONES, SATURDAY LIVE, SIR LENNY HENRY, EUROVISION - GEOFF POSNER’S 40 YEARS AT THE TOP
Saturday, June 28, 2025 • Duration 01:31:46
In this landmark edition of BTS, top Producer-Director Geoff Posner looks back upon his joyous TV career at the pioneering sharp-end of British comedy and music, working with the nation’s greatest entertainers. And it’s really all thanks to ‘Ready, Steady Go!’ and Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
JASPER CARROTT, SIR PATRICK MOORE, THE QUEEN’S FUNERAL – SCRIPT SUPERVISOR LAURA VINE’S TV LIFE
Saturday, November 2, 2024 • Duration 01:23:05
In this edition of Behind the Scenes we meet one of Britain’s busiest and most versatile television Script Supervisors – Laura Vine. In this candid, laugh-out-loud chat Laura talks about her 30 years at the BBC starting
as Production Secretary, and then the freelance world beyond, working on everything from occasions of state to The Chelsea Flower Show, Carrot Confidential
and The Sky at Night, where she enjoyed Sir Patrick Moore’s little known 5-star culinary skills. Add to that international sport along with modern and Shakespearean
productions at the National and RSC, there’s hardly an aspect of telly she’s not covered.
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MUSIC, OLYMPICS, ROYAL EVENTS, RVPs & MORE – THE AWARD- WINNING TV CAREER OF DIRECTOR RICHARD VALENTINE
Saturday, October 26, 2024 • Duration 01:17:59
In this edition of Behind the Scenes we’re meeting multi-Bafta and Royal Television Society Award Winning Director, one of, if not the most popular and versatile working in British live broadcast entertainment - Richard Valentine. He’s covered everything from Royal Variety Performances and arena concerts, working with major music artists including Harry Styles, Jamie Cullum, Ariana Grande, Beyonce and U2, to major events such as the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games, Invictus Games, Royal weddings and working on the coverage of the Funeral of Her Majesty the Queen.
Richard’s been non-stop at the top for 40 years. Pretty good for someone who began their television career in the Props Department of the BBC.
RED DWARF, LOVEJOY, JASPER CARROT & MUCH MORE – THE TERRIFIC WRITING TALENT OF PAUL ALEXANDER
Saturday, October 19, 2024 • Duration 01:17:26
This edition stars one of the most prolific and versatile, award-winning writers in television and entertainment on both sides of the Atlantic, Mr Paul Alexander. I first met Paul in the ‘80s when he joined the team of Bob’s Full House. Since then, he’s scripted Hollywood films, live action and animated streaming series, penned ratings-winning sitcoms for radio and television, including episodes of “Red Dwarf”, comedy dramas, soaps, comic books, musicals and some of the niftiest one-line gags for our very best comedians. He’s also a Sunday Times best-selling author. Oh. And he stubbornly remains decades younger than me.
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THE TV EXECUTIVE WHO REDEFINED ENTERTAINMENT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC - IN CONVERSATION WITH CLAUDIA ROSENCRANTZ
Saturday, October 12, 2024 • Duration 01:43:03
In this edition of Behind the Scenes we chat with Claudia
Rosencrantz. In her ten years as Controller of entertainment at ITV she entirely redefined LE by commissioning genre-busting, ratings-giants such as “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire”, “Britain’s Got Talent”, “Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway”, “The X Factor” and more. Claudia also talks about working with Chris Evans, Sir Elton John as well as her long, award-winning association and close friendship with the genius who was Barry Humphries.
POP STARS, TOP STAND UPS, AWARD-WINNING DOCS - TALENT EXEC JENNY DREWETT’S AMAZING 30-YEAR CAREER.
Saturday, August 24, 2024 • Duration 01:12:16
In this edition of Behind the Scenes we’re chatting with Jenny Drewett, one of British television’s busiest, most experienced, well-known and best-connected on-screen Talent Executives and Celebrity Producers. In her non-stop 3-decade long career Jenny’s worked extensively in award-winning light entertainment, factual entertainment,
documentaries and music programming. Everything from Top of the Pops and The National Lottery Live to The World’s Most Dangerous Roads and Wife Swap. Not forgetting her casting top comics and looking after Dr. Who’s Jon Pertwee.
‘KRYPTON FACTOR’, VICTORIA WOOD, ‘DEAL OR NO DEAL’ & THE BRITS – THE AMAZING CAREER OF TV EXECUTIVE LESLEY DAVIES.
Saturday, August 17, 2024 • Duration 58:32
This time on BTSWCE one of the best-known Heads of Production and most experienced Consultants working in the fields of entertainment, drama and events
television Lesley Davies shares her career memories of training at Granada TV via LWT, becoming Head of Production at ITV and Director of International Productions at Warner Brothers, and working with the great Producer-Director Geoff Posner on “Dinner Ladies”. Oh, and she talks about organising the building and completion of an entire, new studio complex from scratch – in 8 weeks!
Now living in Dorset and a passionate bibliophile, Victoria owns and runs one of the finest independent second-hand bookshops in the land, “Black Pug Books”.
JIMMY GREAVES, HENRY BLOFELD & ITV’S PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING – PART 2 OF THE TV LIFE & TIMES OF TOP PA VICTORIA STURGESS.
Saturday, August 10, 2024 • Duration 01:01:57
In this edition of Behind the Scenes, Production Assistant (Script Supervisor) Victoria Sturgess shares more stories of her life and times at the sharp end of British television from the late 1960s through to the early ‘90s taking in her move from music and entertainment to LWT’s Sports Department; which led to her working alongside such production luminaries as John Bromley, Ted Ayling,
Patricia Mordecai and John Scriminger. She recalls the glamour of travelling the globe covering football and boxing, those “tiresome” golf and pool tournaments, the joy of Tarby’s FA Cup Final Celebrity Bar, plus that staple of
World of Sport’s Saturday afternoon line-up - Professional Wrestling!
Victoria also talks fondly of her friendships with Jimmy Greaves and Henry Blofeld, their shared love of reading books and why she relocated to Wimborne Minster to
open one of Dorset’s most celebrated book shops - ‘Black Pug Books’.
QUEEN’S “BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY”, THE STONES IN HYDE PARK, PLUS DAVID FROST: THE TV CAREER OF P.A. VICTORIA STURGESS
Saturday, August 3, 2024 • Duration 01:08:36
The latest edition of Behind the Scenes features the first of a two-part conversation with London Weekend Television and pop music video Production Assistant (Script
Supervisor), the magnificent Victoria Sturgess.
In a career which started in the late 1960s she worked extensively with legendary director Bruce Gowers on innumerable LWT series, travelling the world with David Frost, and filming Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody” video.
Victoria’s early career also involved working with Producer-Director Mike Mansfield covering so many iconic pop performances including the Blind Faith and Rolling Stones 1969 concerts in Hyde Park. She also kindly chats about her love of live TV and all its perils, along with averting a transmission near-disaster during the star-studded gala production marking LWT’s move from Wembley to the South Bank. And that’s all before she joined the London Weekend Sports Department,
which is a whole new episode in itself.
Now living in Dorset and a passionate bibliophile, Victoria owns and runs one of the finest independent second-hand bookshops in the land, “Black Pug Books”.
