Sus
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Sus
- Belfast
- 1993-06-19
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Entertainment series for young people, with a look at Sumo wrestling and confessions from Richard O'Brien.
Sus is a live youth programme broadcast on a Saturday morning with quizzes, skits and interviews. Patrick Kielty is in the Belfast studio and Carolyn Stewart is the roving reporter. This week, Carolyn is at Maysfield Leisure Centre learning about sumo wrestling and two locals, Big Hank and Gary, compete to be the first Northern Ireland sumo champion under the training of Judo coach, Syd Hoare.
In the studio, Patrick plays 'Head', the phone-in quiz in which contestants have to identify a celebrity within 15 seconds. Guest Richard O'Brien, creator of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, reveals his innermost secrets in the 'Secrets That You Keep' section. In Antrim town, Benny Lynn has had his gnomes stolen. There is a competition to win a trip to the set of Brookside. Carolyn sets a question to win tickets to the Sus Comedy Festival.
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.