I didn't watch SM:TV right from the beginning back in the day, I think I started watching it a year later, it's interesting that they used the CD:UK music for the first episode.
The episode that started it all. Ant, Dec and Cat themselves keep referring to this as a TERRIBLE series premiere because rhenstudio was comoletely empty and there wasn’t enough content out in and just the three of them talking. There were no in-studio music performances until CD:UK, no comedy sketches, no guest stars, no studio audience, NOTHING. But I mean come on, this was just their first day and they needed some more time to make their show popular so you can’t really blame them.
Those were the great old days of Saturday mornings on ITV back then. They took it to brand new heights that day and that weekend of summer 98" signalled the shape or start of things to come. SM:TV Live was and still forever is a household name in childrens/teens television. The following shows that took over its slot never had the same nostalgia.
@Fusion Super Sorry guys but the no 1 Saturday morning show was and will always be Live & Kicking, nobody wanted to watch the rubbish Ant, Dec and Cat on the otherside, they are nothing but dreadful presenters, and Smtv only lasted for 5 years where as L&K ran for an unbeatable 8 years.
@@meridian2000 You are entitled to your options, but commenting the exact same post on every SMTV video isnt cool. Go watch your silly little BBC clip shows and leave us fans alone. Besides, the fun of Live and Kicking died after Zoe and Jamie. But SMTV was the best Saturday morning kids show ever, and one of the last.
@Lan And your entitled to your opinions, but I'm sorry you're wrong and you're in the minority Smtv was the worst show created on British television, and that's not an opinion, it's a fact, L&K was miles better especially when Katy, Ortis, Trey and Sarah presented it.
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By their own admission Ant, Dec and Cat initially got it wrong at the beginning of SM:TV's lifespan because as we see here there was nothing it was dead. It was just the 3 of them there no audience, nothing at all the only guest stars of note were the Honeyz who Cat interviewed as all their efforts were being put into CD:UK the third hour which was an upgrade on The ITV Chart Show which after 12 years had gone stale. The original idea was for SM:TV to be warm up/pre show to CD:UK which was the main event as it were. But even then they were struggling to get the big names onto CD:UK yes they got 5ive as we see from part 2 of this video as we see them arriving at SMTV's studio in Waterloo to the sound of screaming teenagers, Suggs who we see right at the start when Ant and Dec showed us round SM:TV's home and the aforementioned Honeyz but not much else because they were all going on L&K because it was the better of the two and where all the kids were at with Zoe and Jamie It was only when Ant, Dec and Cat went to a panto in Sunderland and saw their potential audience when the penny dropped and thought hang on CD:UK isn't the main event we need to do more in the first 2 hours of the show. The moment they brought kids into the studio, CITV gaining the rights to broadcast Pokémon which was in the ascendancy combined with rivals L&K losing Zoe and Jamie who departed at the end of series 6 of L&K and their replacements Steve Wilson and Emma Ledden didn't work at all things took off. Also another thing that worked in SM:TVs favour was that it was broadcasted on every Saturday of the year whilst L&K only broadcasted during the school year from September to the Easter Holidays in April the BBC only started broadcasting L&K yearly in its final year 2001 and by then it was just dead they changed the presenters again after the Steve & Emma era flopped with Katy Hill, Trey Farley, Ortis Deeley and Sarah Cawood but it didn't work and when it decamped to Glasgow for the death knell Katy Hill quite wisely bailed out and Heather Suttie filled the void.
This first show's obviously terrible, like everyone has always gone on about. But it's a credit to Nigel Pickard, David Liddiment, and all the other ITV executives that they persevered with the series and its initially poor ratings when others wouldn't - just a shame that they didn't offer the same support for shows that arguably failed in viewership terms at first, but had clear potential and quality from the off (e.g. Life Force...)
Can't believe this show is 25 years old soon I feel old
I didn't watch SM:TV right from the beginning back in the day, I think I started watching it a year later, it's interesting that they used the CD:UK music for the first episode.
The episode that started it all.
Ant, Dec and Cat themselves keep referring to this as a TERRIBLE series premiere because rhenstudio was comoletely empty and there wasn’t enough content out in and just the three of them talking. There were no in-studio music performances until CD:UK, no comedy sketches, no guest stars, no studio audience, NOTHING.
But I mean come on, this was just their first day and they needed some more time to make their show popular so you can’t really blame them.
Those were the great old days of Saturday mornings on ITV back then. They took it to brand new heights that day and that weekend of summer 98" signalled the shape or start of things to come.
SM:TV Live was and still forever is a household name in childrens/teens television. The following shows that took over its slot never had the same nostalgia.
@Fusion Super Sorry guys but the no 1 Saturday morning show was and will always be Live & Kicking, nobody wanted to watch the rubbish Ant, Dec and Cat on the otherside, they are nothing but dreadful presenters, and Smtv only lasted for 5 years where as L&K ran for an unbeatable 8 years.
@@meridian2000 You are entitled to your options, but commenting the exact same post on every SMTV video isnt cool. Go watch your silly little BBC clip shows and leave us fans alone. Besides, the fun of Live and Kicking died after Zoe and Jamie. But SMTV was the best Saturday morning kids show ever, and one of the last.
@Lan And your entitled to your opinions, but I'm sorry you're wrong and you're in the minority Smtv was the worst show created on British television, and that's not an opinion, it's a fact, L&K was miles better especially when Katy, Ortis, Trey and Sarah presented it.
Maybe I think the first ever episode was a taster show; the introduction. The 2nd episode was the full show proper.
Weird that there is no crowd
Saturday 29th August 1998
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By their own admission Ant, Dec and Cat initially got it wrong at the beginning of SM:TV's lifespan because as we see here there was nothing it was dead. It was just the 3 of them there no audience, nothing at all the only guest stars of note were the Honeyz who Cat interviewed as all their efforts were being put into CD:UK the third hour which was an upgrade on The ITV Chart Show which after 12 years had gone stale. The original idea was for SM:TV to be warm up/pre show to CD:UK which was the main event as it were. But even then they were struggling to get the big names onto CD:UK yes they got 5ive as we see from part 2 of this video as we see them arriving at SMTV's studio in Waterloo to the sound of screaming teenagers, Suggs who we see right at the start when Ant and Dec showed us round SM:TV's home and the aforementioned Honeyz but not much else because they were all going on L&K because it was the better of the two and where all the kids were at with Zoe and Jamie It was only when Ant, Dec and Cat went to a panto in Sunderland and saw their potential audience when the penny dropped and thought hang on CD:UK isn't the main event we need to do more in the first 2 hours of the show. The moment they brought kids into the studio, CITV gaining the rights to broadcast Pokémon which was in the ascendancy combined with rivals L&K losing Zoe and Jamie who departed at the end of series 6 of L&K and their replacements Steve Wilson and Emma Ledden didn't work at all things took off. Also another thing that worked in SM:TVs favour was that it was broadcasted on every Saturday of the year whilst L&K only broadcasted during the school year from September to the Easter Holidays in April the BBC only started broadcasting L&K yearly in its final year 2001 and by then it was just dead they changed the presenters again after the Steve & Emma era flopped with Katy Hill, Trey Farley, Ortis Deeley and Sarah Cawood but it didn't work and when it decamped to Glasgow for the death knell Katy Hill quite wisely bailed out and Heather Suttie filled the void.
It certainly was quite flat at first. Another thing that helped was the more sketch-based approach with the launch of Chums.
@@opentellyonyoutube yes definitely agreed
It's spelled "knell", actually.
Hideous. I was gutted when The Chart Show ended. But they went onto bigger and better things. Couldn't watch this.
This first show's obviously terrible, like everyone has always gone on about. But it's a credit to Nigel Pickard, David Liddiment, and all the other ITV executives that they persevered with the series and its initially poor ratings when others wouldn't - just a shame that they didn't offer the same support for shows that arguably failed in viewership terms at first, but had clear potential and quality from the off (e.g. Life Force...)