A View from the Terrace | |
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Based on | The Terrace: Scottish Football Podcast |
Directed by | Jordan Laird |
Presented by | Craig G. Telfer |
Starring | Craig Fowler Joel Sked Shaughan McGuigan Robert Borthwick Graeme Thewliss Ray Bradshaw Sean Hamilton Tony Anderson Amy Canavan Duncan McKay Duncan Cowles |
Opening theme | "The Late 90s" – Ella's Brother |
Country of origin | Scotland |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 6 |
No. of episodes | 13 - series 1 20 - series 2 21 - series 3 3 - Euro 2020 specials 20 - series 4 20 - series 5 20 - series 6 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Ian Greenhill, David Harron |
Producers | Andy Maas, Michael Dart |
Camera setup | Multi-Camera |
Running time | 58 minutes |
Production company | Studio Something |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Scotland |
Release | 1 March 2019 – present |
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]
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 [2] and the Scottish Women National Team's send off at Hampden [3] 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. [4] 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. [5]
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. [6] 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. [7]
Throughout the program's run they have conducted interviews with some of the most well known faces in Scottish football like Kenny Miller, Rory Loy, David Martindale, Gemma Fay and Jack Ross and some that are less so such as Rose Reilly and Fiona McIntyre of the SFA.
After the end of Series 4, it was announced that A View From The Terrace would be performing a live end-of-season review show at St. Luke's in Glasgow. The show saw many of the regular features (See Ya Later, Debater and Future Headlines featured) as well as a special edition of the Club Shop where audience members had the chance to win a Peterhead branded bottle of hand sanitiser, a diamanté Raith Rovers shirt claimed by Shaughan, and a Buckie Thistle torch keyring to name but a few of the fantastic prizes on offer. The show saw all the regular contributors to the show bar Bradshaw and Hamilton, as well as two special guests in the form of Marvin Bartley and Dylan Easton.
The show's sixth series started on 29 September 2023. [8] The show's 100th episode was broadcast on 24 November 2023, [9] with the previous episode having been recorded in front of a live audience in Greenock [10] and the following one in Edinburgh. [11]
Throughout the run of programme there have been many sections that have appeared throughout every series and often several episodes in the same series. These include:
After the successful appearance of Graeme Thewliss during A View From The Euros, more regular contributors and friends of the show were invited to contribute. To date, host Craig G Telfer has appeared in all but one of the studio shows (A View From The Euros, Episode 3) due to a positive COVID-19 test. However he did appear briefly via video call. In Series 2 and 3, there were a total of 3 Best Of episodes, as Telfer introduced the best clips from the previous series alone in the studio. As of Series 5, Episode 7:
Presenter Name | Club supported | Series 1 | Series 2 | Series 3 | A View From The Euros | Series 4 | AVFTT Live | Series 5 | Series 6 | Total Appearances |
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Craig G Telfer | Stenhousemuir | 13 | 19 | 21 | 2 | 20 | 1 | 20 | 20 | 83 |
Craig Fowler | Hearts | 13 | 17 | 20 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 71 | |
Joel Sked | Hearts | 13 | 17 | 20 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 70 | |
Shaughan McGuigan | Raith Rovers | 13 | 17 | 20 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 74 | |
Robert Borthwick | Hearts | 13 | 17 | 20 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 69 | |
Duncan McKay and Duncan Cowles | Hibs and N/A | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 17 | |
Graeme Thewliss | Motherwell | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
Ray Bradshaw | Partick Thistle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Sean Hamilton | St Johnstone | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Tony Anderson | Hibs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
Gary Cocker | Dundee | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Amy Canavan | Celtic and Bonnyrigg Rose | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
^ Robert Borthwick only appeared in the regular ″Social Media Review″ section for the first three series, until he became a more regular panellist from Episode 3 of A View From The Euros onwards.
^ Before becoming a more regular contributor, Graeme Thewliss made two appearances in the earlier series of the show, in a section called ″Come Consi-Dine With Me″ where a famous footballer taught him to cook their speciality. These were making sushi with former Heart of Midlothian F.C. and Dundee United F.C. player Ryan McGowan and baking empire biscuits with Motherwell F.C. player Stephen O'Donnell.
^ Podcast contributor Gary Cocker has made three appearances in the early series interviewing two players in informal setting, called ″First Mates″. These were former Hamilton Academical F.C. and Partick Thistle F.C. player Ziggy Gordon, a former child chess champion, over a chess board, former Heart of Midlothian player Oliver Bozanic at Gorgie City Farm, and former Hamilton Academical F.C. player Steve Davies in an escape room.
Throughout the program's run there have been many guest appearances from various people involved in Scottish football, including but not limited to:
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" [30] by The Scotsman; Kevin McKenna in The Observer described it as "the best football show on UK television by far". [31] Football periodical Mundial described it as "the reason why you should give a shit about Scottish football" [32] and BBC Scotland credited it as being a part of the "new wave of fan led football content". [33]
The show was nominated for a Broadcast 2020 Award for Best Sports Programme. [34]
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