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- Rutland Weekend Television (RWT) was a television sketch show on BBC2, written by Eric Idle with music by Neil Innes. Two series were broadcast, the first consisting of six episodes in 1975, and the second series of seven episodes in 1976. A Christmas special was broadcast on Boxing Day 1975. It was Idle's first television project after Monty Python's Flying Circus, which had ended the previous year, and was the catalyst for The Rutles. Rutland Weekend Television or RWT ostensibly centred on "Britain's smallest television network", situated in England's smallest (and mainly rural) county, Rutland. Rutland had lost its independence in April 1974 so, supposedly, there were tax advantages to broadcasting from somewhere that did not legally exist. This framework allowed for a range of sketches and material to be presented, all as part of the fictional network's hosted programming. Nevertheless, even this very loose concept was frequently ignored and material was presented with a more stream-of-consciousness approach, with no particular tie-in to the RWT framework. Typically, in addition to sketch material, each episode also featured two music videos (a term not yet coined in 1975) of Neil Innes songs, which were woven into the flow of the show. The show's title alludes to London Weekend Television (then part of ITV and since renamed ITV London). A Rutland TV station would be pretty small (representing roughly 30,000 people in an area less than 150 square miles), so a Rutland Weekend Television would have to be ridiculously tiny. The joke was doubly meaningful as Idle had accidentally been granted a presentation budget instead of the more lavish budgets associated with light entertainment – so the weekly patter about their inability to buy props and sets reflected reality. Indeed, the last show of the first series featured Idle and Innes, stripped and shivering in blankets under a bare bulb, singing about how the power's about to be shut off. Idle speaks bitterly about these conditions now but his attempts to overcome them formed the basis of a lot of the show's jokes. Idle, in a 1975 Radio Times interview, remarked, "It was made on a shoestring budget, and someone else was wearing the shoe. The studio is the same size as the weather forecast studio and nearly as good. We had to bring the sets up four floors for each scene, then take them down again. While the next set was coming up, we'd change our make-up. Every minute mattered. It's not always funny to be funny from ten in the morning until ten at night. As for ad-libbing, what ad-libbing? You don't ad-lib when you're working with three cameras and anyway the material goes out months after you've made it." (en)
- Il Rutland Weekend Television (RWT) era una serie televisiva della BBC2, ideata da Eric Idle e con le musiche di Neil Innes. Due stagioni, la prima di sei episodi più uno special di Natale e la seconda di sette, vennero trasmesse dal 1975 al 1976. È stato il primo progetto televisivo di Idle dopo la fine del Monty Python's Flying Circus. Lo show fu il catalizzatore dei The Rutles. Il RWT era ambientato nella piccola contea del Rutland. Il titolo della serie era la parodia del . (it)
- 律倫週末電視（Rutland Weekend Television）是一個英國喜劇小品電視節目，在1975年於英國廣播公司第二台播出六集，再於1976年播出七集。節目由艾瑞克·愛都（Eric Idle）編導。 律倫週末電視是愛都在1974年拍罷踎低噴飯的飛行馬戲團後的第一套電視作品，並成為惡搞樂隊的靈感。故事主軸圍繞「英國最細小的電視台」：律倫週末電視。該台的收看範圍是英國最小的郡：律倫。 本節目的名稱與倫敦週末電視頗有相同，亦非常諷刺。因為設立獨立電視時，英國政府以倫敦收看電視的觀眾人數會很多為理由，把倫敦地區的獨立電視專營權分為週一至五和週末區。相反，律倫郡的人口大約只有三萬人，所以在現實中，律倫週末電視的觀眾將會是很小的一群人，亦代表廣告收益會很小。 於現實中，律倫週末電視的製作團隊也因為BBC的失誤，而得到一個電視節目巡禮預算 。同類的節目於正常的情況下會得到一個比較大的輕娛樂節目預算。 (zh)
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- Il Rutland Weekend Television (RWT) era una serie televisiva della BBC2, ideata da Eric Idle e con le musiche di Neil Innes. Due stagioni, la prima di sei episodi più uno special di Natale e la seconda di sette, vennero trasmesse dal 1975 al 1976. È stato il primo progetto televisivo di Idle dopo la fine del Monty Python's Flying Circus. Lo show fu il catalizzatore dei The Rutles. Il RWT era ambientato nella piccola contea del Rutland. Il titolo della serie era la parodia del . (it)
- 律倫週末電視（Rutland Weekend Television）是一個英國喜劇小品電視節目，在1975年於英國廣播公司第二台播出六集，再於1976年播出七集。節目由艾瑞克·愛都（Eric Idle）編導。 律倫週末電視是愛都在1974年拍罷踎低噴飯的飛行馬戲團後的第一套電視作品，並成為惡搞樂隊的靈感。故事主軸圍繞「英國最細小的電視台」：律倫週末電視。該台的收看範圍是英國最小的郡：律倫。 本節目的名稱與倫敦週末電視頗有相同，亦非常諷刺。因為設立獨立電視時，英國政府以倫敦收看電視的觀眾人數會很多為理由，把倫敦地區的獨立電視專營權分為週一至五和週末區。相反，律倫郡的人口大約只有三萬人，所以在現實中，律倫週末電視的觀眾將會是很小的一群人，亦代表廣告收益會很小。 於現實中，律倫週末電視的製作團隊也因為BBC的失誤，而得到一個電視節目巡禮預算 。同類的節目於正常的情況下會得到一個比較大的輕娛樂節目預算。 (zh)
- Rutland Weekend Television (RWT) was a television sketch show on BBC2, written by Eric Idle with music by Neil Innes. Two series were broadcast, the first consisting of six episodes in 1975, and the second series of seven episodes in 1976. A Christmas special was broadcast on Boxing Day 1975. (en)
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