TISWAS REUNITED

People spend too long thinking about devising clever, witty formats for TV shows, when all people want is an amazing, simple format.
Take Britain's Got Talent. Fuck all your interactive, bluetooth enabled whizzmongery - Here's a Cat in A Dustbin! Amazing.

Also take TISWAS. The very slogan they used was "This is what they want". How true.

Coming at a time when all Saturday morning television was was a couple of cartoons before World of Sport, it wasn't long before ATV realized they had a monster on their hands. 50 kids charging around a studio covered in foam, water and adrenalin with a presenter who exposed stockinged thighs for the Navy along with Chris Tarrant who, if broadcast now, would be carted off by the social services before the first Telly Selly break.

Before Oasis vs Blur came TISWAS vs Swap Shop. Obviously you realised Swap Shop was a stinking pile of Tory horse shit before you even knew what a Tory was, or indeed before you had a pube.

We'll even look over the fact it was pretty much responsible for Lenny Henry and Jim Davidson. Just .

Simply fucking perfect television that has NEVER been equalled.

TISWAS REUNITED: Saturday June 16th at 9pm.

More TISWAS info here.