Snub TV

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'''''Snub TV''''' (also known as simply '''''Snub''''') is an alternative culture television programme that aired from 1987 to 1989 as a segment on the ''Night Flight'' overnight programming on the USA Network, and subsequently for three seasons on the BBC.<ref name="wray">{{cite web | url = https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/jun/06/snub-tv-cult-80s-music-show-unearthed-underground?CMP=share_btn_tw | title = Snub TV: cult music show that unearthed the underground | last = Wray | first = Daniel | date = 2017-06-06 | work = The Guardian | access-date = 2019-01-06 }}</ref>

==Production==

The original American program was developed by executive producer Fran Duffy<ref>{{cite news|last=Kelly-Jane|first=Cotter|title=Funeral for a Friend|url=https://archive.org/details/FranDuffyAsburyParkPress20010226|accessdate=17 July 2013|newspaper=Asbury Park Press|date=24 February 2001}}</ref> and aired as part of ''Nightflight'' on a fortnightly basis. The first two seasons were produced in the United Kingdom by Pete Fowler and Brenda Kelly.<ref name="wray" /> A third season was produced in the United States by Duffy with help from Giorgio Gomelsky.

In 1989-1991 a British version, produced by Fowler and Kelly, aired for three seasons on the BBC,<ref name="wray" /> and was syndicated to the pan-European television channel Super Channel and in other countries in Europe, such as Russia, Portugal, Denmark and Greece.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}}

==Content== ''Snub''{{'s}} early focus on emphasis on the indie and underground music scene in the United Kingdom was very much informed by Kelly's position as editor of ''The Catalogue'', house magazine of The Cartel record distribution group, plus Fowler's work producing videos for bands. As the BBC show developed the program covered the rise of Madchester, documenting bands such as The Stone Roses.<ref>{{cite book|last=Spence|first=Simon|title=The Stone Roses: War and Peace|year=2012|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|isbn=978-0670920990|pages=134–135|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BhgXPZliqpcC&dq=%22Snub+TV%22&pg=PT124}}</ref> The British series also featured other acts such as comedians.

==Influence== ''Snub TV'' has been credited with giving many bands and musical acts initial or early television exposure vital to their careers.<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Volume 6|year=1995|publisher=Guinness Publishing|isbn=0851126626|page=4407|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CrJGAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Snub+TV%22}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Redhead|first=Steve|title=The End-Of-The Century Party: Youth and Pop Towards 2000|year=1990|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=0719028272|page=73|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WA0NAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Snub+TV%22&pg=PA73}}</ref>

==Archive release== In 2017 Fowler stated that plans to release a complete archive had been shelved due to lack of funds.<ref name="wray" />

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==External links== * Ian Jones: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110608033928/http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?page_id=588 "Everyone Must Be Young and Beautiful": DEF II Revisited—Part One: "I Want to Subvert Mainstream TV"] (October 2001) (includes brief interview with Fowler, bottom of page 1) * Daniel Dylan Wray: [https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/jun/06/snub-tv-cult-80s-music-show-unearthed-underground Snub TV: cult music show that unearthed the underground] (''The Guardian'') 6 June 2017

Category:BBC Two original programming Category:1980s British music television series Category:1987 British television series debuts Category:1989 British television series endings