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| Enjoy Yourself Tonight | |
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| Created by | Robert Chua |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| No. of episodes | 6613 |
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| Running time | 1 hr 30 mins per episode (started as 1hr show and at one stage went up to 1 hr 45 mins per episode) |
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| Network | TVB |
| Release | November 20, 1967 – October 5, 1994 |
Enjoy Yourself Tonight or E.Y.T was a popular variety show in Hong Kong. It made its first broadcast on TVB in November 20, 1967. The show lasted 27 years with its last broadcast on Friday October 5, 1994. During the 1980s, it was compared with the American Saturday Night Live to become one of the world's longest running live-shows.
History
Enjoy Yourself Tonight was created by Robert Chua in 1967, when he was just 21 years old. At that time the first General Manager of TVB, Australian Colin Bendall, wished to create a variety show in a format similar to In Melbourne Tonight. Chua was given the task of creating such a show, and after spending five months observing the popular culture and everyday lives in Hong Kong, Enjoy Yourself Tonight made its premiere, and instantly gained huge popularity.
The show aired from 9:30pm to 11pm every weeknight, sometimes including Saturdays. The show included singing, dancing, short dramas and variety show games that interacted with the audiences.
The show was one of the first show ever broadcasted in Hong Kong in 1967. On January 26, 1971 the show switched to color broadcasts from Black-and-white.
In the 1970s, one of the earliest musical group to perform in the show was the Four Golden Flowers. Lydia "Fei-fei" Shum would become one of the most notable MCs who became the symbol for the show. Another tradition of the show was for the entire cast to congregate at the end of each show to sing the "Good Night Song", written by Joseph Koo. These, along with the show's opening track (also titled "Enjoy Yourself Tonight"), have since attained iconic status within the popular culture of Hong Kong.
By 1989 Enjoy Yourself Tonight had suffered a terminal decline in audience number; despite a radical change in format (which saw weeknight programmes reduced to half-hour durations, plus the traditional full-length variety shows on Saturdays), it failed to retain viewers, who by then had developed new tastes and had access to new forms of entertainment. As a result the show ended its 27-year run on Friday October 5, 1994.
Since then there has been several attempts to resurrect Enjoy Yourself Tonight as a once-a-week programme, first in 1997, then from 2002 to 2004; neither of which were successful. In 2007 it has been announced that the show will return on October 22; while it remains to be seen whether this latest attempt will be a success, the very fact that such attempts were made at all bears testimony to the show's lasting legacy to Hong Kong's popular culture.
See also
- List of programmes broadcast by Television Broadcasts Limited
- In Melbourne Tonight
- Saturday Night Live