tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58934889749137925392024-02-20T02:40:02.937-08:00enjoyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893488974913792539.post-22027042552139514742009-05-07T07:01:00.000-07:002009-05-07T07:02:06.160-07:00Enjoy Yourself Tonight<p><i>Enjoy Yourself Tonight</i> was created by <a href="http://www.robertchua.com/rc_eyt" class="external text" title="http://www.robertchua.com/rc_eyt" rel="nofollow">Robert Chua</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967" title="1967">1967</a>, when he was just 21 years old. At that time the first General Manager of TVB, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australian</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colin_Bendall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Colin Bendall (page does not exist)">Colin Bendall</a>, wished to create a variety show in a format similar to <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Melbourne_Tonight" title="In Melbourne Tonight">In Melbourne Tonight</a></i>. Chua was given the task of creating such a show, and after spending five months observing the popular culture and everyday lives in Hong Kong, <i>Enjoy Yourself Tonight</i> made its premiere, and instantly gained huge popularity.</p> <p>The show aired from 9:30pm to 11:00pm every weeknight, sometimes including Saturdays. The show included singing, dancing, short dramas and variety show games that interacted with the audiences.</p> <p>The show was one of the first shows ever color broadcasted in Hong Kong in <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="1967-11-20"><span class="mw-formatted-date" title="11-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_20" title="November 20">November 20</a></span>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967" title="1967">1967</a></span>.</p> <p>In the 1970s, one of the earliest musical group to perform in the show was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Golden_Flowers" title="Four Golden Flowers">Four Golden Flowers</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Shum" title="Lydia Shum">Lydia "Fei-fei" Shum</a> would become one of the most notable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Ceremonies" title="Master of Ceremonies">MCs</a> who became the symbol for the show. Another tradition of the show was for the entire cast to congregate at the end of each show to sing the "Good Night Song", written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Koo" title="Joseph Koo">Joseph Koo</a>. These, along with the show's opening track (also titled "Enjoy Yourself Tonight"), have since attained iconic status within the popular culture of Hong Kong.</p> <p>By <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989" title="1989">1989</a> <i>Enjoy Yourself Tonight</i> had suffered a terminal decline in audience number; despite a radical change in format (which saw weeknight programmes reduced to half-hour durations, plus the traditional full-length variety shows on Saturdays), it failed to retain viewers, who by then had developed new tastes and had access to new forms of entertainment. As a result the show ended its 27-year run on Friday <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="1994-10-05"><span class="mw-formatted-date" title="10-05"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_5" title="October 5">October 5</a></span>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994" title="1994">1994</a></span>. To this day, however, TVB does not admit that Enjoy Yourself Tonight has ended its run. They merely said that if the show was to be canceled, a Farewell/Curtain Call edition will be produced and aired. As of 2007<sup class="plainlinks noprint asof-tag update" style="display: none;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Enjoy_Yourself_Tonight&action=edit" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Enjoy_Yourself_Tonight&action=edit" rel="nofollow">[update]</a></sup>, no such edition was known to exist.</p> <p>Since then there has been several attempts to resurrect <i>Enjoy Yourself Tonight</i> as a once-a-week programme, first in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997">1997</a>, then from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002" title="2002">2002</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004" title="2004">2004</a>; neither of which were successful.</p> <p>In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007" title="2007">2007</a>, to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of TVB, a half-hour weekday program known as <b>Enjoy Yourself Tonight 2007</b> was run from <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="10-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_22" title="October 22">October 22</a></span> to <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="11-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_16" title="November 16">November 16</a></span>. As the Chinese title (再會歡樂今宵, literally "EYT Revisited") suggests, it was a re-run of some of the most memorable moments of the original EYT shows, as well as bringing back some of the original casts involved for guest appearances/interviews. Even though the latest program was merely a nostalgic looking back to EYT's former glory, it nonetheless bore testimony to the show's lasting legacy to Hong Kong's popular culture.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0