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Post by Zimbo on Aug 18, 2017 15:57:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2017 16:22:08 GMT
A true legend in UK entertainment for a very long time.
Good game, good game.
RIP Brucie.
Famous Forsyth catchphrases
"I'm in charge."
"All right, my loves?"
"Good game, good game!"
"Nice to see you, to see you nice."
"Give us a twirl!"
"Cuddly toy, cuddly toy!"
"OK, dollies do your dealing."
"You get nothing for a pair!"
"What do points make?"
"Didn't he/she do well?"
"You're my favourite."
"Keeeeep dancing!"
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Post by ace5150 on Aug 18, 2017 16:40:06 GMT
Liked him years ago, last few years he was a bit of an embarrassment watching him. Should have retired years ago instead of letching over the dancers on Strictly.
Good, solid professional though......and scores me a point elsewhere.
No doubt Tarby will be on tv later with anecdotes.
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Post by Zimbo on Aug 18, 2017 16:55:07 GMT
A true legend in UK entertainment for a very long time. Good game, good game. RIP Brucie. Famous Forsyth catchphrases "I'm in charge." "All right, my loves?" "Good game, good game!" "Nice to see you, to see you nice." "Give us a twirl!" "Cuddly toy, cuddly toy!" "OK, dollies do your dealing." "You get nothing for a pair!" "What do points make?" "Didn't he/she do well?" "You're my favourite." "Keeeeep dancing!" My favourite was "You're a much better audience than last week" That's a cracking in-joke. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2017 17:09:42 GMT
No doubt Tarby will be on tv later with anecdotes. Yep. Tarby was the first celeb we heard from on the BBC 6.00 News.  |
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Post by Zimbo on Aug 18, 2017 17:17:35 GMT
This is an ace clip of Bruce at the 1974 FA cup final. He got the crowd of 100,000 in the palm of his hand.
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Post by billyfarmer on Aug 18, 2017 17:18:51 GMT
Very sad news.
I think Bruce Forsyth, was the most memorable presenter of The Generation Game, I liked You Bet! (1988-1997), which Bruce, hosted from 1988-1990.
I also like Bruce's memorable appearance (with Norman Wisdom), on Sunday Night at the London Palladium, in 1961.
I can remember Bruce, in a small role, in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971).
R.I.P. Sir Bruce Forsyth.
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Post by t64 on Aug 18, 2017 17:33:25 GMT
sad news a great all round entertainer,not many left now good innings though R.I.P Sir Bruce
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Post by pr1 on Aug 18, 2017 18:07:06 GMT
Being the Anglophile I am I've certainly heard of him but never seen him. He certainly had a long and successful career on TV.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2017 18:09:52 GMT
Being the Anglophile I am I've certainly heard of him but never seen him. He certainly had a long and successful career on TV. He was first on the BBC before WW II had even begun. An amazing career. |
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Post by pr1 on Aug 18, 2017 18:14:00 GMT
Being the Anglophile I am I've certainly heard of him but never seen him. He certainly had a long and successful career on TV. Â He was first on the BBC before WW II had even begun. An amazing career. I was just reading the Guardian obituary. He was first on TV as a kid in the 1930s. The longevity of his career is even more impressive. You seem to have lost one of the greats of British TV. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2017 18:19:51 GMT
Yes, you are correct pr1, Brucie was one of All Time Greats of British TV. Almost every adult in the UK would have recognised a photo of Bruce.
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Post by daz on Aug 18, 2017 18:42:42 GMT
Very sad news. Pretty hard to pick fault with the guy in anyway, I don't think you would have his his kind of career if you were a phoney. He was at Strictly a bit too long, but he comes from a generation who don't stop working.
Three cracking looking wifes as well, with Andrea Redfearn being my favourite of the 3.
Never knew he acted though.
RIP
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Post by flyingsquad on Aug 18, 2017 18:58:45 GMT
Another bit of my childhood gone. 'The Generation Game' was the definitive 1970s TV game show. He had a wide and varied career over a long period of time.
RIP Bruce
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Post by pr1 on Aug 19, 2017 1:03:27 GMT
This is an ace clip of Bruce at the 1974 FA cup final. He got the crowd of 100,000 in the palm of his hand. I really enjoyed watching this clip. He is obviously having a great time and the crowd is happy he's there. |
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Post by jno on Aug 19, 2017 2:22:58 GMT
Fair play, good game good game. A career that spanned how many years? That does deserve a bit of respect from anyone. I agree with ace5150 above though - perhaps he should have retired 10 years ago as several older British folks did tend to stray into "Brucie's not what he was" when he did Strictly. Had he done this I'm certain everyone would still have respected him and his decision. My personal favourite: 'Play Your Cards Right'. What an incredibly cool show this was for youngsters like me of the 1980s. For a good few years on 'Play Your Cards Right' Brucie said "What a wonderful audience, so much better than last week's" to which the audience would laugh. As a youngster I just didn't get that they filmed maybe two or more episodes in succession, so I never understood why that gag was so funny. I can't think of another show ever where the host insinuated there were multiple episodes going on, even if that wasn't the case. I had a bit of a thing for his dolly bird dealers too. One of the RIP Tarby-type pundits was on yesterday saying 'Bruce Forsyth's Big Night' was a flop but how Brucie weathered that storm. Apparently 'Big Night' (1978-80) featured revival sketches from many 60s comedies, at least according to its Wikipedia page. Never seen that but any flop show has to be worth a look in. Nevertheless, well done and thank you Brucie for entertaining so many for so long - a job very well done sir. RIP - it could still be a big night if you play your cards right! Good night!  |
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Post by thecraftyleek on Aug 19, 2017 5:57:35 GMT
Here's a 'good game, good game'.
Get a person to sit opposite you in your kitchen. Take a pear from your fruit bowl and hide it behind your back.
Then tell them 'I'll give you a tenner if you can guess which hand the pear is in.'
After they've picked left or right, always show them an empty hand.
But then say 'Aww, bad luck. Tell you what, have another go. It's got to be worth a tenner.'
So the other person picks the other hand.
And you reveal, 'Sorry, you get nothing for a PEAR. Not in this game.'
I've had years of fun with this game. Thanks for the inspiration Mr Forsyth. It's been a real Brucey Bonus.
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Post by jno on Aug 19, 2017 6:42:22 GMT
Nothing for a pear!   |
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Post by Portland Road on Aug 21, 2017 10:11:07 GMT
R.I.P. Bruce Forsyth.
I do think his death is the closure of an era. He was, until recently, one of the few 60s-70s stars still fronting a current primetime show.
I liked him overall. The contemporary era people (e.g. Tess Daly, Len Goodman) do not seem to have the same gravitas.
In the 'golden age of TV', I mainly remember him from 'The Generation Game'.
P.S: MIAS - great list of catchphrases. Another one IIRC was:
"....and that's all there is to it...!."
pr1 - Bruce became friends with Sammy Davis Jr. They were similar entertainers and they appeared together on TV when Sammy visited the UK.
I saw the BBC tribute documentary. My memory is that Bruce went to ITV to do 'Bruce Forsyth's Big Night' (in the doc, Michael Grade explained how he helped devise the show and entice Bruce to it). At the time, Bruce had already been through one big divorce from his first wife, and was in the process of splitting from his second wife Anthea Redfern.
The tabloids got on his back, and also the BBC had decided to stick with 'The Generation Game' (a successful show in its own right) and go with an 'underdog' presenter, Larry Grayson, who proved popular. IIRC a particular barracking from the Daily Mirror in the summer of 1979, with a series of exclusive articles over several issues dishing the dirt on Bruce right back to the early part of his career.
BFBN was dropped, though a couple of years later Bruce re-emerged with 'Play Your Cards Right'.
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Post by Portland Road on Aug 24, 2017 6:21:45 GMT
Some of the obituary information about Bruce has been lazy and inaccurate. I suspect that certain biases have crept in, and also that his life has been looked at by current journalists, not familiar with him prior to 'Strictly Come Dancing'. The BBC News homepage referred to his "career revival" when he began to co-host SCD. In this same vein, a journalist Michael Hogan, who is the Daily Telegraph's 'Strictly Come Dancing' correspondent, wrote a positive piece about Bruce, but said that: "After a decade off our screens, he popped up in 2003 as a guest host of Have I got News For You.
This appearance, greeted with a warm wave of acclaim and misty-eyed affection from those who had missed him, revived his career.
The following year, BBC bosses picked him to helm the debut series of Strictly Come Dancing, alongside Tess Daly." I was not an avid watcher of everything that Bruce did, but my memory was that Bruce was rarely off the TV at any time, and that the BBC and its associated journalists are airbrushing TV history, or are ignorant of it. Upon checking up, it could be said that "Bruce was off BBC TV screens for a decade". After his second run (1990-94) on 'The Generation Game' ended, Bruce was a fixture of ITV. 'Play Your Cards Right' had already revived in the spring of 1994 (the final GG season with Bruce was in the autumn). Thereafter he did PYCR each winter/spring until 1999, and again in 2002-03. He also took over 'The Price Is Right' each autumn from 1995 until 2001. So he was hardly "off our screens"   It could be said that these were routine game shows, if not throwaway telly, compared to the blockbuster 'Strictly Come Dancing' which (apparently) everyone watches with keen audience participation. I don't doubt (like it or not) the scale of this show, but equally his previous TV shows were perfectly normal, acceptable and popular for their time. |
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Post by daz on Aug 24, 2017 11:24:16 GMT
I don't read much in the way of obituaries, but I did see something last week where Forsyth himself said his appearance on HIGNFY kick started his career.
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Post by jvz on Aug 25, 2017 20:02:37 GMT
There was one obituary that said he was the first presenter of The Price is Right forgetting/ignoring Leslie Crowther. I am not sure whether current lack knowledge of anything before 1980 or are a bit twitchy if they haven't been on for while. The deaths of Cliff Michelmore and Peter Dimmock. Major forces in post war television didn't seem to warrant a mention.
Back to topic. In an industry that pigeon holes people Bruce managed to do many different things, and for so long.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 8:08:58 GMT
Some of the obituary information about Bruce has been lazy and inaccurate. I suspect that certain biases have crept in, and also that his life has been looked at by current journalists, not familiar with him prior to 'Strictly Come Dancing'. The BBC News homepage referred to his "career revival" when he began to co-host SCD. The only time I recall Bruce's career being in a bit of trouble was in 1979 in the wake of 1978's 'Bruce Forsyth's Big Night' which was a disaster in terms of quality and ratings. It truly was dreadful and the newspapers rightly gave it a total pasting. I am surprised it lasted for 12 shows because it was truly painful to endure. After a year off our screens Bruce was back in 1980 with 'Play Your Cards Right' and normal service was resumed. |
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Post by Portland Road on Aug 27, 2017 8:20:42 GMT
I don't read much in the way of obituaries, but I did see something last week where Forsyth himself said his appearance on HIGNFY kick started his career. I think that this appearance was radical for Bruce. He normally only did family or light entertainment. This was more subversive. It did show that he was still potent, and put him into the eyes of BBC producers once more. It is said that it led to 'Strictly Come Dancing', but they might have considered him anyway. They needed a household name for such a Saturday evening show - I am not sure if (at that time) e.g. Tess Daly and Len Goodman would have had such a 'pull' for the viewers. It would have been just another show, and maybe eclipsed by the routine shows that Bruce was doing. I suppose SCD did put Bruce to the forefront again. His career had not declined, but it would probably have stayed with cheesy game shows until such time as something else came along and/or he decided to retire. |
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Post by daytona355 on Aug 28, 2017 7:01:31 GMT
Brucie was my grandads favourite compère, and certainly one of mine. Never watched strictly, even though I could have justified a sound off ogle of Rachel Stevens or rachel Riley, but can't think of a single reality show that I could be bothered to endure even for a few moments. He was a bl*ody good host, a great entertainer, and multi talented Today's ridiculously rubbish imitators could learn a lot from Bruce, tess Daly? Who?  Who are these boring people picked for who they've slept with rather than how engaging they are . To be honest, people put her name as one of today's presenters and I really didn't realise she was, I thought she was just a barely passable tottie that walks the people onto various shows and hands them off to the proper hosts?, is that not the case? Mind you, she isn't really an oil painting, so I should've guessed. It's like people calling Russell brand and that dire weirdo with the channel four psychedelic show comedians......... very wide of the mark and definitely poetic licence. RIP Bruce, you will be missed |
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Post by thewoodster on Jan 29, 2018 23:10:15 GMT
Number1 alround legend
Rip brucie
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Who are these boring people picked for who they've slept with rather than how engaging they are . To be honest, people put her name as one of today's presenters and I really didn't realise she was, I thought she was just a barely passable tottie that walks the people onto various shows and hands them off to the proper hosts?, is that not the case? Mind you, she isn't really an oil painting, so I should've guessed. It's like people calling Russell brand and that dire weirdo with the channel four psychedelic show comedians......... very wide of the mark and definitely poetic licence.
