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Up For The Match
''Up for the Match'' is an Irish Gaelic games-themed variety show currently hosted by Des Cahill and Jacqui Hurley. The show is broadcast live in two editions each year on RTÉ One on the eve of the respective All-Ireland hurling and football finals. ''Up for the Match'' features a mixture of music and chat with special guests and experts from the world of Gaelic games. Despite the theme, ''Up for the Match'' is not part of RTÉ Sport, rather their entertainment division. History Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s RTÉ's previews of the respective All-Ireland finals consisted of short reports on the main news programmes. In 1973 a new show called ''Sports Stadium'', which itself was modeled on the BBC show ''Grandstand'', went on the air. A special segment called ''Gaelic Stadium'' lasted for thirty minutes and previewed the big games of the weekend. In 1974 RTÉ aired a special programme simply called ''The Hurling Show''. It was the first ever eve-of-final non-sporting pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Entertainment
Light entertainment encompasses a broad range of television and radio programming that includes comedies, variety shows, game shows, quiz shows and the like. In Great Britain In the early days of the BBC virtually all broadcast entertainment would be considered light by today's standards, as great pains were taken not to offend audiences—which is not to say that they always succeeded in this. Singers, magicians and comedians were drafted from the music hall circuit to fill the schedules. Stage acts were transferred directly to screen and in the case of productions such as ''Sunday Night at the London Palladium'' the broadcasts actually came from large theatres. Many future household names, including The Beatles, were given their first public airings during these programmes, which attempted to cater for varying tastes through staging variety acts. Bruce Forsyth was one of several hosts for the show and went on himself to present the studio-based '' Generation Game'' which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |