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Eamonn Andrews, CBE (19 December 1922 – 5 November 1987) was an Irish radio and television presenter, employed primarily in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s.
The Eamonn Andrews Show: With Eamonn Andrews, Spike Milligan, Sandie Shaw, Peter Cook. A 45-minute late-night chat and music program from ABC hosted by the genial Irishman in which a collection of guests, some daring, some downright boring, had Eamonn's forehead in an even greater lather than usual.
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Denis Touhy presents a special edition of Late Night Line-Up, live from the RTÉ Television Studios in Dublin, that examines and discusses the work of the emb...
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By 1955 the BBC - now well aware of Eamonn's talent and popularity - were on the lookout for a new show for him to front. Ronnie Waldman, the then head of BBC Light Entertainment, had his sights set on creating a British version of a hugely popular American show called This Is Your Life.
May 22, 2011 · The Irish broadcaster Eamonn Andrews became the first subject of the British version of the television programme This Is Your Life when the host and creator of the show’s American version,...
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The Eamonn Andrews Show was the first real British attempt to repeat the success of American chat shows like Johnny Carson. The BBC had made an earlier series of the same between December 1956 and April 1957 and Thames briefly made a third generation of the series between January and April 1979.
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Dec 9, 2022 · It was This is Your Life that caught the public’s imagination and established Eamonn Andrews as a national treasure. At its peak, 20million viewers tuned in to see who Eamonn would ambush for his show — although viewing figures were more regularly around the 10million mark.
