I went to a boardgame festival and he had a live show where they gave some people on the front the tools to follow his instruction. I remember he did a weed joke ;D
Woah he attends board game festivals?
I AM SPREADING MISINFORMATION
The Italian version had another host aside from Neil and I meant that one
Ah, okay haha
Oh my god, just after posting it has now hit me that the name is a pun on “heart attack”. What a life.
Before Art Attack and on the rival channel was Tony Hart and Heartbeat. Possibly a bit of an in-joke too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartbeat
I can hear the theme song already: doodoo doo doo-doo, doodoo doo doo-doo
Always preferred Hartbeat to Art Attack. Buchanan was just a bit creepy. Plus, no Morph.
Also, was there not a story that those jumpers NB wore cost about £300 or something?
I always wanted to follow along, but I could never master the trick where I could reach over and get a half-done one out of nowhere to keep working on.
Lmao, the old Blue Peter “here’s one I made earlier”
is it still going with Bec Hill?
Neil knew ASMR before it was a thing when cutting cardboard with scissors
My favourite show back in the day!
Funny you post this after I just watched an art attack video yesterday.
I never saw Art Attack, but this just reminded me of Mark Kistler’s Imagination Station. I forgot that show existed; thanks for the nostalgia!
Wow, a blast from the past!
As soon as I saw the logo the theme song played in my head.
Heavily!
I have very fond memories of the Neil Buchanan era — of how quaint, low-fi and distinctly British it was — so my mind was kind of blown when I realized it has since become an international franchise
Same! I had no idea there were versions of him in the Red Shirt in different languages, with different faces any everything
The first time I saw the Spanish one was at like four in the morning, and I thought I’d had a stroke lol
This is an Art Attack,
I still use the way he draws fish
Never heard of it. When/where is it from?
1990s, UK
It also aired in Canada when I was growing up!
I remember the 90s but I’m not British, so that explains things.
Thanks for the reply.
It was also broadcast in Germany with dubbing and a German presenter for the segments between the crafting scenes. In the dubbing, they always spoke of “white crafting glue” which always mystified me, since you could not easily buy this type of glue in Germany back then, all crafting glue I knew as a kid was clear.
Broadcast in Italy too!
Oh weird, you not have PVA?
The glue we used was actually PVA but clear. The only white glue I knew was wood glue, which could well have been PVA as well. Wasn’t allowed to play with that though.
