The Wilko Show

The Wilko Show was a cancelled talk-show programme to be broadcast on YouTube in the Summer of 2010. It was replaced by The Sunday Show in October 2010. No episodes of The Wilko Show have been seen in their entirety, but short clips of the show have been mocked or crudely edited to give the false impression of a dirty-minded show. 35 minutes, 51 seconds of footage was recorded for the programme, constituting for three out of the six episodes planned. It was presented by Chris Wilkinson, not under the guise of The Upper Class Maniac, but as himself. Only the first episode has been edited down to an acceptable format, while the other clips have not received treatment. However, the third episode featured an ending that was designed as a tribute to the people of "Last Of The Summer Wine", as the show, at that time, had only recently been cancelled.

Theme Tune
From the brief appearances of The Wilko Show clips that were included into The Sunday Show, viewers were heavily critical of the music. In actual fact, the theme tune was reversed, and was entitled "Atlantis". It was made for the 1997 game "Theme Hospital".

Format
Each episode would have featured three rants about various topics. Some documents still survive about the planning of the series and what would be involved in it. As well as Chris Wilkinson, the show also featured a character called "The Voice", who would try to keep the conversations going, injecting counter-arguments to anger him. The show was deemed "too humorous﻿" and that it "lacked any real meaning, as it was just another show that talked about pointless subjects". The producers and Chris Wilkinson decided not to film any further than three episodes and production was cancelled. More recently, Chris has stated "The whole idea of making The Wilko Show was to provide something which would be able to compete with the more popular shows of the time. As the show didn't meet the standards we expected it to, it was cancelled. Afterwards, I revised the format and created The Sunday Show, which was more appeasing to audiences".

Future Plans
In February 2011, Chris Wilkinson stated that he might bring The Wilko Show back, but this plan was thwarted by the return of The Sunday Show, which had also been cancelled in December 2010. The Sunday Show returned for a third and final season and an updated format in June 2011, with the last episode airing in July 2011.

More recently, in October 2011, another less publicised revamp was mooted, but nothing came about. At the time, ChrisCam, a similar style show, was still broadcasting.