Wogan

Wogan
1985 opening titles
Starring	Terry Wogan
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	1131
Production
Running time	30–52 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC One
Original release	4 May 1982 (1982-05-04) – 3 July 1992 (1992-07-03)

Wogan was a British television talk show which was broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 until 1992, presented by Terry Wogan. The show was generally broadcast live from BBC Television Theatre in Shepherd's Bush, London until 1991. It was then broadcast from the BBC Television Centre. Some shows were pre-recorded, but broadcast unedited, 'as live'. Wogan ended its run in July 1992 (it was replaced by the soap opera Eldorado).

Wogan's first foray into TV interviewing, and indeed to British television, was in 1972 on Lunchtime with Wogan on ITV, in 1973 he left and joined the BBC. In 1981 he was given another chat show; What's On, Wogan? running for 9 episodes in the spring of that year, primarily on Saturday evenings. In 1981 he had a chance to host a one-off chat show, Saturday Live. Among his guests on this show were Larry Hagman, promoting SOB, and Frank Hall. Hagman was at the height of his fame, which gave the show a high profile.A year later Wogan was given his own chat show, Wogan, initially broadcast on a Tuesday evening, the series was moved the following year to Saturday nights to replace Parkinson.

When BBC1 was relaunched on 18 February 1985 the show was moved to weekday evenings at 7:00pm, three nights per week, and inter-scheduled with EastEnders to help streamline and maintain viewers throughout the course of the evening, as designed by the then-controller of BBC One, Michael Grade. Grade was also determined to end the "dated and inept" BBC1 scheduling which was "hampering the network and which was holding back good programmes". Grade said "When I took over BBC1, I discovered there were wonderful things, it was just a case of where to put them." Grade also said "The series would bring a much needed element of surprise and unpredictability to BBC Television".