A View from the Terrace

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A View from the Terrace
Based onThe Terrace: Scottish Football Podcast
Directed byJordan Laird
Presented byCraig G. Telfer, Craig Fowler, Joel Sked, Shaughan McGuigan, Robert Borthwick
Opening theme"The Late 90s" – Ella's Brother
Country of originScotland
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4.5
No. of episodes13 - series 1
20 - series 2
21 - series 3
3 - Euros 2020 specials
20 - series 4
Production
Executive producersIan Greenhill, David Harron
ProducerAndy Maas
Camera setupMulti-Camera
Running time58 minutes
Production companyStudio Something
Release
Original networkBBC Scotland
Original release1 March 2019 (2019-03-01) –
present
External links
Website

A View from the Terrace is a Scottish football magazine and factual television 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]

History[]

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 VTs 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 the first series closed with a popular Scottish musician or band playing a version of one of their team's most famous songs; some of the artists to perform have been Admiral Fallow, Fatherson, HYYTS, STPHNX and We Were Promised Jetpacks. This feature was used intermittently in following series. Along with continuing to shine a light on up-and-coming musical talent from Scotland and beyond, the show began to curate archive-based love letters to some of Scottish football's most iconic moments, using fan voices to tell those stories with features including St. Johnstone's famous Scottish Cup win and the Scottish Women National Team's send off at Hampden ahead of the 2019 Women's World Cup.

The original 10-part series was extended to 13 episodes to take the show 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. 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]

The third run of the show launched in October 2020, navigating a UK-wide lockdown to produce 20 episodes of fan-focussed studio and short feature content. The fourth in began October 2021; it included more guest panellists than previous seasons, including podcast regular Graeme Thewliss and comedian Ray Bradshaw.

Following Scotland Men's National Team qualification for the delayed Euro 2020 Championships in 2021, a 3-part spin off titled A View from the Euros was aired to accompany the tournament. Applying the show's trademark humour and style with a continental twist, it celebrated what it meant to be Scottish as the national side returned to major tournament football. During A View from the Euros, famous Scottish football songs were covered in different genres from countries partaking in the Euros competition. For example The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" was played by a Spanish flamenco band.

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] Football periodical Mundial described it as "the reason why you should give a shit about Scottish football"[6] and BBC Scotland credited it as being a part of the "new wave of fan led football content".[7]

The show was nominated for a Broadcast 2020 Award for Best Sports Programme.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "New BBC show A View From The Terrace is a fresh look at Scottish football". The National. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  2. ^ "The Best of A View from the Terrace". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  3. ^ "To View from the Lockdown". terracepodcast.net.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "WHY YOU SHOULD GIVE A SHIT ABOUT SCOTTISH FOOTBALL (BEYOND THE OLD FIRM)". MUNDIAL MAGAZINE. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Is it time for the fans to take over football analysis on TV?". BBC Scotland. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
  8. ^ "Broadcast Awards shortlist 2020 revealed". Broadcast.

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