"... on Television" or "... on TV", was a long running late-night television programme on ITV. The programme was a clips show that featured a number of unusual or (often unintentionally) amusing television programmes and commercials from around the world linked by Chris Tarrant, who fronted the show, named "Tarrant on TV" for 16 years. The show started off in 1982, hosted by the Australian television critic and satirist Clive James.

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  • "... on Television" or "... on TV", was a long running late-night television programme on ITV. The programme was a clips show that featured a number of unusual or (often unintentionally) amusing television programmes and commercials from around the world linked by Chris Tarrant, who fronted the show, named "Tarrant on TV" for 16 years. The show started off in 1982, hosted by the Australian television critic and satirist Clive James. However, when Clive defected to the BBC, a new replacement host was needed and so celebrity chef Keith Floyd was brought in for one series of six episodes in 1989 before Chris Tarrant took over in 1990. For the tenth anniversary in 1992 Tarrant would present the compilation series Tarrant's Ten Years Of Television (later 10 Years On TV), which showed clips of the past five series and specials, and sometimes included extended footage that was unsuitable for transmission in the original show. Tarrant on TV showed bizarre clips from all over the world but most notably from the far eastern countries of Japan and Korea. Clips vary from a Japanese crying contest, a Japanese contraception advert and the Japanese TV show Za Gaman in which contestants must endure the most pain, to a profane North Korean propaganda film, and an advert showing eggs being fired from the bottom. Tarrant on TV also covered the more violent and unusual shows of the Jerry Springer Show. Many of the clips viewers may find offensive often display nudity, strong language, crude or dark humour and violence. One rather bizarre test Tarrant tried in his early presenting was to bring on special guests, and Hollywood-star Mel Brooks was willing to appear in a show on 4 April 1992. Brooks only agreed to appear as to claiming that he loved British television and was lucky to see Clive James On Television after being given copies by friends in the UK. Tarrant and Brooks (who somehow knew Tarrant from spending time watching British television on visits) focused the episode on different types of humour in Sweden, America and Israel. The episode went well and both were pleased with the completed show, but owning to copyright issue payments of the clips themselves, LWT said it would be too expensive to also pay for a guest each week and the idea was shortly dropped and remembered as a one-off. In 1996, Clive James decided to return to hosting the programme, but found he would have to do a spin-off series as Tarrant was making his name clear. Clive James On TV ran for two series in 1996 and 1997, and was fronted by Carlton Television instead of LWT. The series was axed due to poor scheduling. At this time it's unknown if there's going to be a new series for the future as Tarrant has been in a recent scandal about his alcoholism, and has recently been presenting more gameshows for ITV and Challenge. Many claim that the programme has ended after 20 years of material. The theme tune used from 1996 - 2006 was Syd Dale's "The Penthouse Suite".
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  • "... on Television" or "... on TV", was a long running late-night television programme on ITV. The programme was a clips show that featured a number of unusual or (often unintentionally) amusing television programmes and commercials from around the world linked by Chris Tarrant, who fronted the show, named "Tarrant on TV" for 16 years. The show started off in 1982, hosted by the Australian television critic and satirist Clive James.
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