... STV show has a tired look BY GORDON IRVING Time for Tennent, STV, nightly at II pm. WHAT a paucity of ideas the commercial station at Glasgow's Theatre Royal has! The idea of a nightly chat-and-music show, hosted by the amiable, ultra- courteous Bill Tennent, is not new and is already an overworked, though usually viewable. format. For this series, however, the producers have come up with ...

... Not so wild BY JAMES TOWLER Jokers Wild, Yorkshire, July 9 THE big advantage of presenting panel games on television is that they are comparatively inexpen sive to stage. There are no lavish sets, no orchestras to be engaged and no special material to be written. Jokers Wild is essentially a joke telling competition between two teams of three comedians who do their best to interrupt each ...

... Surprisingly not just a carbon copy Why Jo you want to be a Doctor Doctor in the House. London Weekend, July 12. BY MARJORIE BILBOW IT WAS with a good deal of apprehension that I sat down to watch Doctor in the House. Richard Gordon's larky saga of medical students can hardly be said to have suffered from under-exposure during the past 20 years, and its choice as a new comedy series seemed ...

... Material needed paring BY JOHN LAWRENCE Strangers in The Night, BBC-2. July 12 BARRY HUMPHRIES is quoted in Radio Times as saying My Golden Rule is not to begin by thinking what's funny to the public, but to do what amuses me, and hope it makes others laugh. People who think like this run the great risk of ing self-indulgent, as well as being very unamusing to all ex cept the select few ...

... Offers more entertainment than many spectaculars BY MARJORIE BILBOW Don't Ask Us We're New Here, BBC-I, August 15. LIVELY, varied, fast-moving, and unpretentious, this 25-minute comedy revue series produced for BBC-1 by John Ammonds offers more concentrated entertainment value than many star vehicle spectaculars that get the full publicity razzmatazz. Pace is the secret, with sketches that are ...

... Stronger production than script merited BY JOHN LAWRENCE The Stables Theatre Company, Wedding Night, Granada, August 18. WEDDING NIGHT, by Gert Hoffman, translated by Carey Harrison, was a play about how a young couple's wedding is ruined by the arrival of the wartime comrade of the bride's father during the reception. Basically, the theme was familiar. A group of men got together, ate, drank ...

... Worst so far in G & S series BY JOSEPHINE HAWORTH The Gallon and Simpson Comedy. An Extra Bunch of Daffodils. London Weekend, May 24. NOT even Galton and Simpson can be relied upon to produce something superlative every time, as this mixed bag of half-hour comedies on Saturday evenings has shown. The latest offering, An Extra Bunch of Daffodils, was the worst so far in this series and ...

... Conversation piece BY ANN PURSER And Was Invited To Form a Government, BBC-2, May 22. CHARLOTTE and Denis Plimmer wrote a neat little thirty- minute play some time ago about an assassination plot, with an ingenious twist at the end that no one could have anticipated. Last week they had another political half-hour with And Was Invited to Form a Govern ment. Set in the future (but not too ...

... by John Lawrence Saturday Night Theatre It Calls for a Great Deal of Love, London Weekend, December 20. ON the face of it Keith Dewhurst's play about a widow fighting off her own loneliness should have been very good. It was well written, sensitively produced and nicely acted by, among others, the actress for whom it was written, Hlrd. But it did not really work. It never captured the ...

... Looked like cleaned up Fanny Hill BY ANN PURSER Rogues' Gallery: Granada. May 24. THE latest series of Rogues' Gallery, Peter Wildeblood's interpretations of the Newgate Calendar, is not so naturally bawdy as the last. It may be partly due to Diane Cilento's looks which, despite a heaving bosom, remain blonde and clean-cut; or her.. excellent enunciation wnicn must nave put her top ot tne ...

... An unimpressive beginning BY JOHN LAWRENCE Christ Recrucified, Part I, The Apostles, BBC 2, August 16. THE new classic serial on BBC-2 is by Nikos Kazantzakis, the author of Zorba the Greek. According to the introduction in Radio Times, and the trailers it is to be an allegory of Greek society, operating on many levels. It is difficult to judge the production on the hrst episode, since most ...

... Dee Time haven for extroverts BY JAMES TOWLER Dee Time, BBC-1, August 16. Stars on Sunday, Yorkshire, August 17. ADVERTISING magazines a thing of the past? On ITV maybe. But tune into dear old Auntie BBC's Dee Time and just look at some of the products on display: a new series (BBC of course) starring Vincent Price, the latest Anita Harris oisc, two oest sellers rrom ine pen ot Leslie I ...