Luna
08-10-2005, 19:20
This is Your Life could be returning to screens after a production company bought the rights to the show.
Michael Aspel quit the long-running programme in 2003, leaving it facing an uncertain future.
Now SMG TV is reviving the format with a pilot episode with a new as-yet-unnamed presenter.
Managing director Elizabeth Partyka said that although details had to be decided "we can safely say that we'll be keeping the red book".
She added :"Our development team are currently looking at ways of refreshing the series, giving it a new look and bringing in a brand new presenter, who has yet to be confirmed,."
Based on a US format, the show was one of the longest-running on British television, starting on the BBC in 1955 with Eamonn Andrews.
The programme's host - carrying its trademark big red book - surprises a celebrity, then takes them back to a studio for a discussion about their life, where they are reunited with old colleagues and family members.
It was axed in 1964, but Andrews fronted a revival on ITV in 1969, made by Thames Television.
Aspel took over as presenter in 1987 when Andrews died.
The programme moved back to the BBC in 1994.
Michael Aspel quit the long-running programme in 2003, leaving it facing an uncertain future.
Now SMG TV is reviving the format with a pilot episode with a new as-yet-unnamed presenter.
Managing director Elizabeth Partyka said that although details had to be decided "we can safely say that we'll be keeping the red book".
She added :"Our development team are currently looking at ways of refreshing the series, giving it a new look and bringing in a brand new presenter, who has yet to be confirmed,."
Based on a US format, the show was one of the longest-running on British television, starting on the BBC in 1955 with Eamonn Andrews.
The programme's host - carrying its trademark big red book - surprises a celebrity, then takes them back to a studio for a discussion about their life, where they are reunited with old colleagues and family members.
It was axed in 1964, but Andrews fronted a revival on ITV in 1969, made by Thames Television.
Aspel took over as presenter in 1987 when Andrews died.
The programme moved back to the BBC in 1994.