Sus
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Sus
- Belfast
- 1993-06-19
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The entertainment series for young people dives into TV soaps.
Sus is a live youth programme broadcast on a Saturday morning with quizzes, skits and interviews. This episode is a Soap Opera special, featuring Liverpool show Brookside, and Australian soap, Neighbours. Carolyn is in Liverpool on the set of Brookside, meeting the producer Mal Young, and stars including Anna Friel. They answer questions from the public. The 'Head' quiz is all about soap opera stars and there are prizes to be won. The celebrity in 'The Secrets That You Keep' is Felice Arena, star of Neighbours. He tells the show some of his personal secrets. Last week's competition winner visits Liverpool and the Brookside set.
Sus was one of UTV's first forays into 'youth programming'. A young Patrick Kielty presented comedy skits, competitions and phone-ins.
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Travel back in time to anarchic Saturday mornings in the 1990s with this fondly remembered show for teenagers.
Saturday mornings have always been about starting the weekend with a blast of fun for young people - all the way back to the days of Swap Shop, Going Live or Tiswas. This Ulster Television series pushed the dial slightly further towards anarchy by aiming at older teenagers and, for two series during the mid-1990s, it was the home for riotous humour to welcome in the weekend. Presented by young comedian Patrick Kielty, in one of his first TV appearances, he was joined by local heartthrob Jamie Darling, while future DJ Carolyn Stewart provided each week’s roving reports from around Northern Ireland.
Combining a mix of reports, comedy sketches, musical numbers, celebrity guests, phone-in games and participation from the rowdy studio audience, Sus was enough to blow away the cobwebs left from any Friday night parties and it remains a fascinating snapshot of television embracing 1990s youth culture.