Rip-off

YSTV has a long, proud history of producing unadulterated rip-offs and parodies of other channel's programming. Here's a list of some of them, starting with the obvious steals:

Never Mind The Rip-Off - Never Mind The Buzzcocks Have I Got News For YUSU - Have I Got News For You Whose YSTV Is It Anyway - Whose Line Is It Anyway? URYVision Song Contest - Eurovison Song Contest (we can blame URY for this one!) Summer Expedition - Blue Peter have been doing this idea for 40 years YSTV's Bloomers - Auntie's Bloomers Welcome To Venus - Loose Women

YSTV were approached in late 2003 to produce a rip-off of The Office called The Union, transferring Slough to Heslington, but this was never made.

Although not direct rip-offs the following owe a lot to other shows: Jim'll Sodomise You - parody of Jim'll Fix It (alledgedly) YSTV-am - inspired by The Big Breakfast and a name derived from TV-am Lazy Lunch - Name comes from C4's Light Lunch but this show had no cookery whatsoever This Afternoon - named as a parody of This Morning, was a similar magazine show Campus Today - again featuring This Morning-style set-up and theme tune This Is YOUR: Manifesto - theme tune, title and red book are from This Is Your Life Children In Need - not really a rip-off but inspired by BBC telethon of the same name Good Morning Campus - name derives from Good Morning Britain but show was more like BBC Breakfast

LipSync deserves an honourable mention for all the rounds it has ripped-off from other panel shows over the years!

Finally, YSTV were ripped-off in a way when around a year after Stereotypes was made, a very similar programme called "He Says, She Says" was broadcast on BBC2 - and the title of which was a working title for Stereotypes!