The return of children's favourite Tiswas, the show that launched the TV careers of Chris Tarrant and Lenny Henry, drew nearly 5 million viewers to ITV1 on Saturday night. Tiswas Reunited, a one-off ...

Tiswas, Going Live! and Live & Kicking were bastions of British entertainment in the 70s, 80s and 90s, but these anarchic live shows have since been replaced by dull TV chefs. It’s time to take back ...

FOR all his affable Saturday evening respectability, there's still the slightest sniff of something silly about TV millionaire-maker Chris Tarrant. But then, older readers will recall that Tarrant was ...

TISWAS was yesterday ranked alongside the Apollo moon landing and Live Aid as one of the greatest landmarks in TV history. TISWAS was yesterday ranked alongside the Apollo moon landing and Live Aid as ...

Former children's TV presenter Peter Tomlinson has said he probably would have died from cancer were it not for advances in treatment and called on people to support further research. The creator of ...

But the antics on Tiswas, which stood for Today Is Saturday, Watch And Smile, would not wash today – as they ­discovered at a 2007 reunion show. She said: “When you think of all the health and safety ...

Chris Tarrant believes there is no way that Tiswas would be made in this day and age. Before he started hosting Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Chris rose to fame while co-presenting the popular ...

Original host Chris Tarrant is to bring Tiswas back to television. ITV will show a 90-minute special of the erratic 1970s children's hit fronted by the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host. He will be ...

The Saturday morning children’s television show Tiswas was made in Birmingham. On air from 1974 to 1982, Tiswas started as a Midlands regional programme and was broadcast from Studio 3 at the ATV ...