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''Victoria Wood As Seen On TV'' was a British comedy sketch series starring comedian Victoria Wood, with Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge. The show was televised on BBC Two between 1985 and 1987 and included sketches that became famous in the United Kingdom; these included one-offs like ''Two Soups'' (in which Walters, as an elderly waitress, takes too long to deliver two bowls of soup) and regular features like ''Acorn Antiques''〔 〕 (a parody of low-budget soap opera), as well as musical performances by Wood including her most well-known number, ''The Ballad of Barry and Freda'' ("Let's Do It").〔 The show was created when Wood was enticed away from rival television station ITV in 1984. She wrote the whole programme, and also the synopsis of it for listings magazine the ''Radio Times''. The series has led to spin-off script books, video tapes and DVDs.〔 〕 The show won BAFTA Awards for all its episodes and, in 1996, it was awarded all-time ''Favourite Comedy Series'' by the BBC itself.〔 Wood preferred to work with a regular repertory of actors she could trust.〔 Since the show ended, she has occasionally revived aspects of it with these colleagues. A notable spin-off is ''Acorn Antiques'', the West End musical. ==Background== Wood, having spent most of her television career before ''As Seen On TV'' with the opposition television station ITV, was lured to the BBC with a promise of bigger budgets and more creative control than on previous television shows, such as ''Wood and Walters''.〔 To produce and direct the show, Wood chose Geoff Posner, who had previously worked on successful and acclaimed British comedy shows of the early 1980s such as ''Not The Nine O'Clock News'', ''The Young Ones'' and the pilot of ''Blackadder''. Equally impressed with her work, Posner said of Wood's gift for comedy, "She manages to examine people talking and capture speech-patterns and subjects that are everyday, but hysterical at the same time... it's quite unique to hold a mirror up to ordinary life and make it so special."〔 Going into production in summer 1984 – with studio recordings in September and October – the first series of ''As Seen On TV'' was intended for broadcast late that year. As a theatre tie-in, Wood arranged a short stand-up tour with the same name as the show, to capitalise on her television appearances around the same time. This backfired when the BBC put back the opening broadcast to early the following year.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victoria Wood As Seen On TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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