[2] Bailey didn't have any trouble translating the show across the Atlantic to the UK, he said "I expected a more reserved response but in fact there's a much broader range than in Manhattan Cable.
Buxton filmed his links from his flat in Brixton Hill on a camcorder in front of a set he built using old TVs playing feedback patterns he has made when he was at art school.
[11] The programme was decommissioned in 1996, but Buxton and Cornish remained at Channel 4 with their new series, The Adam and Joe Show, which launched that December.
By the time of the third series revival rather than requesting people send in tapes E4 were able to set up an accompanying website for viewers to submit video spoofs.
[12] Despite being a vehicle for amateur videos The Independent on 12 July 1996 criticised the programme for appearing too professional compared to Made in the USA which had debuted stateside previously.
They made the case that the programme has "quality control" whereas "in real public access television, the notion of weeding out the incompetent, the marginal and the impossibly eccentric is anathema.