Talk:Parkinson (TV series)

BBC Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject BBC, an attempt to better organise information in articles related to the BBC. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can join us as a member. You can also visit the BBC Portal.BBCWikipedia:WikiProject BBCTemplate:WikiProject BBCBBC articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Tasks for WikiProject BBC:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Improve BBC, BBC News (TV channel) and BBC News to Good Article status following previous reviews, create BBC Computer Literacy Project (in light of forthcoming 30th anniversary)
Cleanup : Chucklevision - references and general clean-up, Pebble Mill Studios - over-detailed and long, BBC World Service Television - unreferenced and confusing
Copyedit : BBC News, Broadcasting House
Expand : Top 20 start-class BBC articles with most importance: BBC Japan, BBC World Service Television, BBC Lifestyle, BBC Two Northern Ireland
NPOV : Criticism of the BBC (See comments)
Stubs : Stub-Class BBC articles
Other : *Restructure the category
- Add infoboxes to the BBC articles without infoboxes
- Add free-use images to biographical articles where possible
- Add references to Goa Mix (see assessment) and Coat of arms of the BBC
- Return Dad's Army to a Good article. (See comments)
- Reassess BBC following improvements to article.

Television: British

	Television portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Television, a collaborative effort to develop and improve Wikipedia articles about television programs. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can join the discussion. To improve this article, please refer to the style guidelines for the type of work.TelevisionWikipedia:WikiProject TelevisionTemplate:WikiProject Televisiontelevision articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the British television task force.

Clarification

Guys, was it Michael Parkinson or Billy Connolly who was responsible for threatening to break Rod Hull's arm? - Richardcavell 10:38, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It was Billy Connolly who said it on the Parkinson show. He was the other guest when Rod Hull attacked Parkinson. See the Rod Hull page. --Rrsmac 10:28, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Discovered" Jamie Cullum?

It might interest you to know Michael Parkinson's brother is a booking agent for musicians. It was he who punted Cullum (and Meluah for that matter) Michael's way.

Restructure

Just a brief note to say that I've been through the article, tidied or added to various elements, and also started a "Trivia" section containing memorable moments. The article now also contains proper reference tags. Chris 42 22:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dave Allen poem

The poem that Dave Allen read out on Halloween scared the bejesus out of me as a young teenager. However, I don't think it was ever published, so I don't know its title. If memory serves, Parky offered it to Allen on the spur of the moment, as something that had caught his eye from that week's postbag. This was around 1979. Could anyone expand on this? Chris 42 22:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good article

Want to say thanks to whoever added trivia section- was a good read and sums up what Wikipedia should be about. I'd never read some of those facts before.

Thanks. You're welcome.:-) Chris 42 14:12, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is another, that he served in the Suez crisis. 81.86.76.6 07:58, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Desert Island Discs

Parkinson presented Radio Four's Desert Island Discs for some time. Anyone know any details?

Well remembered! I've now added it to the "Other work" section. Chris 42 09:59, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

interviewing style

Whover started this section meant well, I'm sure, and it's quite informative, but the tone is a little informal. It's hard to describe something like Parkinson's style in a neutral manner - especially if you're like me, and you're a huge fan - but maybe whoever wrote it initially, or somebody else, should have a go. Cheers! riana 17:16, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Needs photo

This page really needs a photo of Mr Parkinson on the set of his show or the shows official logo/splash name JayKeaton 00:11, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiprojects

For some reason, this article was listed as being part of WikiProject Biographies, but it shouldn't be since this article is about a TV series as the host has his own article. I've switched it to the more appropriate TelevisionWikiProject. 23skidoo 16:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Commented You Tube links

Look like TV footage, uploaders of footage do not appear to be either of the BBC 'official' profiles or the respective production companies in respect of the later footage. Where these links to Copyvio? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 14:57, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]