''Under the Moon'' was an offbeat, late-night 1990s sports show on the United Kingdom's

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. The show was originally hosted by Danny Kelly and comedian Tim Clark. The pair lasted for 10 episodes before Clark left to be replaced by another comedian,

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. Binns was axed from the show after he offered to "give

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one up the arse" after he scored an impressive goal in the 1998

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. He was replaced by

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but the show was cancelled later that year. The show consisted of sports guests, live phone calls from viewers, comedy from Binns, music, and reports — all connected to

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. Although a sports show, after the main show had ended, Kelly would later act as an in-vision host providing links to the next programme and were thus listed as part of the show. Examples of these were repeats of the now defunct Channel 4 ''

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'' which ran between 1992–1998. Regular guests included Martin Johnson and Roger Black.

References

External links

Channel 4 - "Interview with Danny Kelly"The Guardian - "The best worst sports TV show : Under the Moon"Tom Binns Topical Jokes websiteThe Independent - "Sport on TV : Under the Moon, over the tolerance threshold"
Channel 4 original programming 1990s British sports television series 1997 British television series debuts 1998 British television series endings {{UK-comedy-tv-prog-stub