A View from the Terrace
| A View From The Terrace | |
|---|---|
| Based on | Terrace Scottish Football Podcast |
| Directed by | Jordan Laird |
| Presented by | Craig G Telfer, Craig Fowler, Joel Sked, Shaughan McGuigan, Robert Borthwick |
| Opening theme | Season One Toy - Young Fathers. Season Two The Late 90’s - Ella’s Brother |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 13 Season One, 20 Season Two |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Ian Greenhill, David Harron |
| Producer | Andy Maas |
| Camera setup | Multi-Camera |
| Production company | Studio Something |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC Scotland |
A View From The Terrace is a Scottish football magazine, factual television series. It is broadcast on BBC Scotland and repeated on BBC One in Scotland.
The show is produced by creative agency Studio Something and is adapted from the long-running podcast The Terrace.[1]
Format
The show was launched in the opening week of the new BBC Scotland channel. It is hosted by Craig G Telfer and features the recurring cast of Craig Fowler, Joel Sked, Shaughan McGuigan and Robert Borthwick. The panel take a loving and scathing look at Scottish football from the top of the leagues to the bottom as well as exploring the culture that surrounds the game in Scotland.
Each show is built around studio debate as well as number of outside 'VT's' that explore the further culture of the game. These have to date taken the form of observational documentaries, light entertainment pastiches, short films, spoken word, animation and scripted drama. The most common features used in the show are "The Boyata Index", "On The Fence", "Time Capsule" and "See Ya Later Debater".
Each episode of season one has been closed with a popular Scottish musician or band playing a version of one their teams' most famous songs; to date some of the artists to perform have included Admiral Fallow, Fatherson, HYYTS, STPHNX and We Were Promised Jetpacks.
Following the abrupt end to the 2019-20 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a compilation show entitled 'The Best of A View from the Terrace’ was screened.[2] Additionally, the show’s team continued to create similar output via their long running podcast, including a series of shows entitled ‘A View from the Lockdown’, where the presenters took popular elements from the television show to discuss non-football related topics.[3]
Reception
The show has been described as 'quietly but bravely pushing boundaries' and 'injecting the fun back into the football on TV for the first time since Baddiel and Skinner's Fantasy Football League[4] by The Scotsman, Kevin McKenna in The Observer described it as 'the best football show on UK television by far'[5] and 'the reason why you should give a shit about Scottish Football'[6] by football periodical Mundial and BBC Scotland credited as being a part of the 'new wave of fan led football content'.[7]
The original 10-part series was extended to 13 episodes to take the series up to the eve of the 2019 Scottish Cup Final. The show was recommissioned by BBC for a second season of 20 episodes and returned on 27 September 2019.
The show was nominated for a Broadcast 2020 Award for Best Sports Programme [8]
References
- ^ "New BBC show A View From The Terrace is a fresh look at Scottish football". The National. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ "The Best of A View from the Terrace". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
- ^ "To View from the Lockdown". terracepodcast.net.
- ^ "A View From The Terrace: How a football podcast-turned-TV show became BBC Scotland's most promising production". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
- ^ McKenna, Kevin (19 May 2019). "Derided before its launch, BBC Scotland has silenced the critics with its excellence | Kevin McKenna". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ^ "WHY YOU SHOULD GIVE A SHIT ABOUT SCOTTISH FOOTBALL (BEYOND THE OLD FIRM)". MUNDIAL MAGAZINE. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "BBC Scotland - BBC Scotland - Is it time for the fans to take over football analysis on TV?". BBC. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
- ^ "Broadcast Awards shortlist 2020 revealed". Broadcast.