... seat number you are allowed to leave. His is the white leather suite school and requires a rebore from producer Brian Penders, and is a homage to celebrities chat vehicle, coupled with songs or comedy from the guests. Des does Mr Nice Guy material which ...

... ers and has filled his running time with the briefest of snippets. A sketch here, a song and dance there, a serial involving green-faced Grotbags the witch, and even an Emu late night chat show. This is based on America's noted host, Kit Carson, and since ...

... expressions were hilarious. Of course it has a serious storyline. A seedy club provides the backdrop to the burgeoning Nazi faith that compromises a young American writer and rocks a budding romance between a Gentile and ...

... Desert Island Discs seems a very obvious idea but only after Roy Plumley thought of it. Walkie Talkie is similar. What could be simpler than taking someone for a walk and a chat? It seems so obviously obvious but it works a treat. The guest ...

... Brush Strokes BBC-1 IT IS always a pleasure to welcome a new series, new characters, and a fresh set of actors, but on the evidence of this opening programme it is impossible to offer any verdict or predict how far it is going. Brush Strokes strokes ...

... I am wonder ing whether the home audience care much whether a show is recorded or live. Des' problem appears to be that he has not yet made up his mind whether he is hosting a chat show or a kind of variety programme. And he is in danger of falling between ...

... price of a leaky old diving suit. The whole production is TV poetry. I only hope that in its new Monday night slot, it can pick up a sizable audience. Parkinson: The Interviews (BBC1, Wednesday, August 2, 11pm) was a look back to a time when ...

... rings, and her demure black dress tied with a pink sash, is easy on the eye and appears to operate without a clipboard or idiot card. She has the gift of the gab and tries to develop a conversation rather than a question and-answer ses sion. There is every ...

... will vacuum for you in the nude. A recent interview, which liter ally took my breath away at its frankness, was with a 'sex thera pist' in a Hamburg brothel who was chatting to the camera while she was sitting astride a cus tomer. I was ...

... factor so far as the unseen audience at home is concerned. Then a lack of space can have a restrictive effect on production. Fortunately the first of the new Max Bygraves series kept to a simple format so that, although the setting appeared messy and the ...

... offer something for everyone. A recent Jameson Tonight featured a show designer, one of The Chief tains, a stand-up comic, an investiga tive journalist, a former Labour Party image-builder and Fenella Fielding. The mix was a good one. One ...

... qualities of a chat show host and presenter. Musical talent even as enormous as his doesn't mean he is gifted in other areas. But, surprisingly, he makes a reason ably good job of it. Of course, the inexperience shows and if he does strumble over a name or ...