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Contents 1 Archives 2 Randolph Sutherland 3 2007 Special 4 Tiswas definition --- old U.K. East Midlands word 5 Series 7 6 Fair use rationale for Image:TiswasReunited.jpg

[edit] Archives

Would it be possible to include a section of what Tiswas shows still exist in the archive? - bingo99 09:48 28 August 2006

[edit] Randolph Sutherland

Said in this entry to be a co-presenter of O.T.T. I don't believe this to be the case. For a start, who the hell is Randolph Sutherland? Has someone just made that name up out of thin air? Having seen the first seven episodes of this show recently, there's no record of him/her. - bingo99 06:00 7 February 2007

[edit] 2007 Special

According to Tiswas Online, the date of broadcast is "PEAK time on ITV1 Saturday 5th May". [1] Has this been officially confirmed? - bingo99 06:04 7 February 2007

The May 2007 edition of Sky The Magazine also promotes the Tiswas special as being broadcast on Sat May 5th 2007 at 9.30pm. Tiswasonline.com are reporting that transmission has now been delayed until June. But the good news is that the programme will feature in a longer timeslot. So we'll get more Tiswas than originally planned. 87.74.74.65 21:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tiswas definition --- old U.K. East Midlands word

I am simply astonished that no-one has pointed out that "tiswas" is a very old U.K East Midlands word. That realization has put me into quite a pucky-acky.

My mother, born in Burton-upon-Trent in 1912, would frequently declare that "I'm all of a tiswas." She and other family members in the Midlands used this expression from the earliest times that I recall, in the early 1940s, and throughout her post-WWII life in Kent (where the word was then unknown), up to her death in 2001. My cousin (born in our Burton home in 1944, later moving to be "near Auntie") and in turn her son (in his thirties), now living on the Isle of Sheppey, still use it to this day (2007).

"Tiswas" means "to be in rather a tizzy" (an equivalent state, formed from the same root), meaning uncertain about what to do, with one's mind flitting between several and sometimes conflicting possibilities. My mother, an intellectually curious and well-read woman though unfortunately educated only up to age 14, told me that it derived from a contraction of "It is, it was" :"t'is was," finally "tiswas."

It is clear to me that everyone has the logic of the origin of "Tiswas" completely backwards. The BBC program Tiswas originated in an East Midlands BBC studio.The producers did NOT dream up the title and then use its first letters as an acronym; _clearly_, being East Midlanders, they knew the word already, and devised the programme's title to fit it. And of course, it suited their purposes beautifully, as they could then quite consistently dodge around from one topic to another without much concern for continuity. It was in fact an inspired choice. Too bad that that has not been recognized.

Spock2 21:11, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Over the years I have seen assorted explanations for "TISWAS", a couple being "This Is Saturday, Watch And See" or "We Are Stupid", among others... Lance Tyrell193.130.128.2 12:55, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Series 7

The article claims that midway through series seven, "Chris Tarrant decided to go out on a high, and make it his final Tiswas series."

I'm pretty sure I recall Tarrant appearing on ATV Today to promote Tiswas, the night before the start of this new series. He revealed then that this would be his final year with the programme. Hence to claim he decided midway through the series that he was going to quit is not quite right.

87.74.74.65

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:TiswasReunited.jpg

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