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1999SILENT FEATURE FILMS
Episode 5 -- 10/8/1999. T.F.I. Friday
Description: British entertainment television program. 1990's
Chat show from inside the bar at Riverside Studios London, hosted by Chris Evans includes celebrity interviews, comedy skits and live music performances.

Guests Include:

David Bowie
Ben Elton
JOE Longthorne
Eurythmics
The Charlatans
Paul McCartney (comedy skit by telephone)

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Countdown clock
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Show opener - T.F.I Friday
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Shots of guests in triple split screens: David Bowie, Ben Elton, The Eurythmics, The Charlatans
10:00:52 52.93 thumbnail
Triple split screen shots of show hose Chris Evans
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Host Chris Evans in the studio, walls and ceilings painted red, welcomes viewers, audience applauding. Evans introduces English singer, Joe Longthorne.
10:01:53 113.13 thumbnail
British singer Joe Longthorne walking across risers in the studio , passes applauding members of the audience and joins Evans. Evans announces Longthorne will perform a "big finish" to start the program.
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Longthorne performs one verse of the Bobby Darin song, "Mac the Knife". Audience smiling and applauding. Longthorne waves and exits studio
10:03:29 209.77 thumbnail
Cut to off set comedy skit, "Have you seen my squirrel?" featuring one of the show producers and everyday folk in a park
10:05:06 306.02 thumbnail
Host Evans announces contest, phone number and details overlay
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Ventriloquist, "Len the Vent", with rock and roll dummy (figure) of Curt Cobain from Nirvana - skit - dummy announces tonight's guests
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The Charlatans Forever (live)
10:12:13 733.17 thumbnail
Host Evans in a plug for the Charlatans latest CD, holds the CD in front of the camera. Pan applauding audience. Evans introduces the next performer, English comedian, and entertaining author, Ben Elton.
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Host Evans leads Elton to the closed door, asks him to lean against it then takes his height measurement and poses the question, "who do you think is tallest, Ben Elton or David Bowie?"
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Host Chris Evans interview with Ben Elton. They talk casually about Evans' new book, Inconceivable, his family, and the film "Maybe Baby" he is directing based on the book.
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Audience standing, applauding
10:18:52 1132.54 thumbnail
Interview ends, Evans thanks Elton and announces the Eurythmics and David Bowie coming up.
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Dancing girls wearing thigh high boots and leather shorts perform
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Break. No audio. Countdown clock overlay dancing girls on stage.
10:22:35 1355.96 thumbnail
Show returns, graphics, aerial studio and pan in on dancing girls
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Host Evans banging on drums with two big sticks.
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Evans announces contest, phone number and some details overlay.
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Evans answers ringing phone on his desk. It's Paul McCartney. McCartney talks some crazy nonsense about a recipe. McCartney announces another "big finish" from Joe Longthorne.
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Joe Longthorne performs another comedic "Big Finish" and sings the last verse of "Don't Cry Out Loud" by Carol Bayer
10:26:37 1597.63 thumbnail
Eurythmics I Saved the World Today (live)
Annie Lennox performs acoustic version of this song
10:29:52 1792.92 thumbnail
Performance ends in applause. Host Evans plugs their new CD. Evans announces the contest and gives the phone number. He introduces a female audience fan who has entered the contest. She answers three question correctly and gets the chance to win big money.
10:35:11 2111.88 thumbnail
90's dancing girls perform again. Show graphics overlay
10:36:12 2172.1 thumbnail
Countdown clock
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Comedy skit "What does the fat bloke do" - man with no shirt and huge belly dances with Host Chris Evans.
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David Bowie walks across risers passing applauding fans along the way and enters studio. Evans measures his height against the wall, they argue about his height.
10:46:10 2770.7 thumbnail
Host Chris Evans lighthearted interview with David Bowie. Bowie jokingly talks about how he crossed a barrier and got dragged into jail before getting to the studio and tells a big tall 'story' about how he got gastro-interitis from a trip to Indonesia... jokes about the chair he's sitting on - the 2nd worst chair he ever sat on, the first being on Virgin Airlines. Talks about how he doesn't do drugs or drink. But nothing much serious going on in this interview...all in fun and very funny
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Joe Longthorne shakes hands with Bowie and performs another "big finish" one verse from - "Sunny Side of the Street"
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Bowie shaking hands and hugging audience members
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David Bowie Survive (live)
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Credits scroll over Bowie performance.
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David Bowie performance ends. Audience applause and Bowie thanks audience.
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Show ends. Show graphics. Ginger Television
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Blank
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