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TFI Friday

TFI Friday was a weekly interview and music programme, hosted (mainly) by Chris Evans and produced by Ginger Television. It was broadcast on Fridays at 6pm on Channel 4 from 1996 to 2000, with a repeat later that night. The show's theme tune was actually Ron Grainer's theme from Man in a Suitcase.

During November and December 1999, the show included a segment titled "Someone's Going To Be A Millionaire!", inspired by the ITV game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (which would not have its first million pound winner until November 2000). TFI Friday paid out the promised £1 million jackpot on Christmas Eve, 1999, becoming the first British TV show to do so.

The show attracted controversy when Shaun Ryder swore several times. Following the first interview on the show when he swore, he was not allowed to be interviewed live. During a Stars in Their Eyes skit, Ryder performed (as Johnny Rotten) the Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant". The section was transmitted live, as it was not an interview. Ryder swore several times. Ryder reamins barred from appearing live on any Channel 4 programme. Ewan McGregor also swore on the show. TFI Friday was then forced to go out pre-recorded.

There is an archive website at http://www.tfifriday.com which contains many interviews from the show.

Some or all material in this page has been adapted from the TFI Friday entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFI_Friday), or others, in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org), the free encyclopedia.