Editing Through the Keyhole (section)

==History==
===Original series===
''Through the Keyhole'' originally started as a segment on [[TV-am]], first being broadcast on its launch day on 1 February 1983.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/370964/Rise-and-shine-The-joys-of-breakfast-television|title=Rise and shine: The joys of breakfast television|last=Hassell|first=Katherine|date=15 January 2013|work=[[Daily Express]]|publisher=[[Northern & Shell]]|access-date=17 February 2013}}</ref> The idea was created by Kevin Sim as a chance to look around some of the most influential homes with Grossman at the helm as the tour presenter. Grossman was mistakenly given the job after someone had confused him with another journalist.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/television--long-runners-no-35-through-the-keyhole-1421961.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/television--long-runners-no-35-through-the-keyhole-1421961.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Long Runners: No 35: Through the Keyhole|last=Thompson|first=Ben|date=12 June 1994|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=17 February 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> It became a regular feature of TV-am throughout 1983<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/01/arts/morning-tv-is-the-talk-of-britain.html|title=Morning TV is the Talk of Britain|last=Bedell|first=Sally|date=12 January 1983|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=17 February 2013}}</ref> until May 1985. 

In Spring 1986<ref>Brief Note: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph, P2: Monday 05 May 1986</ref><ref>Role reversal, Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express P15, Saturday 10 May 1986</ref> Frost transferred the concept to [[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]] who picked up format, to produce a full half-hour programme for [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], where a celebrity panel tries to guess whose house is being looked at From 1987. It ran in primetime on Friday nights for eight years on ITV and was rarely out of the top ten entertainment programmes on TV. The executive producers were Kevin Sim and Chantal Rickards. From 1996, it was produced by Frost's own production company, Paradine Productions, at Yorkshire Television. That same year, the show also moved to [[Sky One]] for one series. It then moved to [[BBC One]] ''Daytime'' in 1998 until 2004. The final three series aired on [[BBC Two]] from 2006 to 2008, when it was cancelled by the BBC. However, a special aired in March 2011 for ''[[Red Nose Day 2011]]'' as part of marathon panel show ''24 Hour Panel People''.{{cn|date=December 2024}}

===Revival===
[[File:Through the Keyhole set.jpg|thumb|left|Through the Keyhole set at [[BBC Elstree Centre]] in 2018.]]
In 2013, the programme returned on its original broadcast channel ITV with [[Leigh Francis]] (in character as Keith Lemon) taking up the dual roles of studio presenter and house detective. The new series was filmed at [[Pinewood Studios]] until 2018, with series 6 filmed at the [[BBC Elstree Centre]]'s Studio D in the latter half of the year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virginmedia.com/tvradio/news/story/2013/01/24/keith-lemon-confirms-through/|title=Keith Lemon confirms Through the Keyhole revamp|date=24 January 2013|publisher=[[Virgin Media]]|access-date=17 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comedy.co.uk/news/story/000001014/keith_lemon_through_the_keyhole/|title=Keith Lemon to present Through The Keyhole revival|date=13 January 2013|work=The British Comedy Guide|access-date=17 February 2013}}</ref> [[Dave Berry (presenter)|Dave Berry]] was a regular panellist. The first episode of the revived series aired on the same day that former host Sir [[David Frost]] died, although the news did not break until the following morning.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a511567/sir-david-frost-dies-aged-74.html |title=Sir David Frost dies, aged 74 |date=1 September 2013 |work=[[Digital Spy]] |access-date=1 September 2013}}</ref>

Before his death in August 2013, Frost gave his backing to ITV's remake, saying: "I am delighted that the Keyhole format is now entering its fourth decade on TV. I know the pilot show went down very well with the studio audience and I wish Keith and his team the very best of luck for the series."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a482027/keith-lemon-through-the-keyhole-gets-sir-david-frost-backing.html |title=Keith Lemon 'Through the Keyhole' gets Sir David Frost backing |last=Fletcher |first=Alex |date=16 May 2013 |work=Digital Spy |access-date=1 September 2013}}</ref>