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Doesn't look like a body double, just looks like CGI. Good for what it is but not even slightly convincing. The clips and reminiscences are ok but the "new" hologram bits are a bit crap IMHO and the audience would laugh to see a pudding crawl. Robert Lindsay, doubling up with extravagant laughter, h...

The BBC is the corporate equivalent of "The Blunders" in some ways. You have to wonder how they keep on making these faux pas. TBH a frozen income is a good idea. They've still got fingers in too many pies, doing more and more, less and less well and they've increasingly forgotten why they're suppos...

I saw the trail for this yesterday. They showed the hologram which I thought looked nothing special, then cut to a shot of Lionel Blair's jaw dropping. Needless to say, my eyes rolled as I said: "Jesus, pass the sick bag." It sounds like it might be interesting in parts, but I've never been a partic...

It's also quite temperamental, the number of times I've seen all the whizz-bang animations on Sky Sports staggering frame by frame presumably (guessing here) because the VIZ has a "just in time" rendering system which seems to periodically throw a wobbly. But then sport coverage has become such a pi...

Yeah he was into his American cars and bikes. Sad news but not unexpected. Bless him, a really, really nice chap. I know he was disappointed not to be well enough to appear in the live ep. He'd been in fairly poor health for a very long time. I worked on "Emmerdale" a lot (until the soaps finally ha...

There is a saying in the business, when an on-set pedant points out an "error". "Christ! If they notice that, we've really lost them anyway!" I speak from experience ;-)

Pop fact: before devising NTNOCN, John Lloyd seriously considered auditioning to be one of the 'We spoke to the gas board' men sitting behind St Esther. Which you can absolutely imagine him doing can't you? Thankfully, however, somebody said to him 'Um, why don't you do something good instead?'. Th...

That's why "TV Burp" had the occasional gem. It could also be quite barbed on occasion but was unusual in that. There's a bitch in all of us and I think barbed humour is something to be savoured occasionally.

Oh yeah absolutely, wasn't there some rather puerile "Kinda lingers" "Cunnilingus" play on words song I vaguely remember. I'm sure NTNOCN was far from "exemplary" and was guilty of some of the crimes it decried in others. Those piss-takes are still fucking funny though ;-)

I enjoyed 'That's Life' though it was open to parody,not least on 'Not the Nine O'Clock News'.Still,it was only this week that someone of TV was wittering on about the skill needed to segue neatly from an item on the dangers of flammable furniture to the possibilities of unusually-shaped vegetables...

We only really watched School's television programmes at Primary. It featured regularly in the timetable and there was a massive ITV preference amongst the teachers. The overwhelming majority of our School telly was ITV. Basic Maths, Good Health, Stop Look Listen, Starting Science, A Place To Live, ...

This thread prompted me to search on the YouTube for some ITV schools programmes junctions and it's amazing how hearing the various slide and clock music from the various years/terms, within a few seconds I'm humming along and can actually remember every flourish of the pieces concerned. It's like "...

Granada's "Brass" made the switch from ITV to C4 didn't it?

Disappointed but not surprised to see a new ITV Studios global entertainment caption inserted to cover the mix to the Anglia knight production caption. I did a sad face when that happened.

I hope Network don't start getting supplied with doctored source material.....

I don't remember the children in a playground titles. I only remember the animated versions. One had the words against black, flying forward with a trail effect - individually and then all together. Then there was the one with the cartoon face featuring an ear and an eye looking about and then the s...

I made a point of tuning in for the launch night. Of the two, I preferred "The Job Lot" and thought it had more about it than "Vicious". Which was, I agree, a very generic scenario and extremely badly made technically. What is it with multi-cam sit-com these days? The same Directors and Cameramen ch...

Though pronouncing H "Haitch" seems as awkward to me as pronouncing M: "Mem" or N: "Nen." Haitch-MV, V-Haitch-S, N-Haitch-S or Haitch-from-Steps sound so wrong! Hearing "Haitch" always makes me look sideways at whoever just uttered it.... And then mouth, Les Dawson style, "riffraff" if I have a lik...

He's one of my favourites. I'll be interested to read it.

I must confess that when I hear British people on TV or radio saying "either" or "neither" with the first syllable as "ee" rather than the proper "aye" I do repeat the word very loudly with the correct British pronunciation I've just checked with the ultimate authority, the full version of the OED ...

I'm all for languages evolving. However, English really does seem to be evolving to suit idiots. The meanings of words change over time, syntax changes and languages evolve. I just object to the extent to which it seems to be evolving to accommodate fools. Why exactly is it foolish to pronounce eit...

There were certainly some howlers in "Downton Abbey".... But then anyone with any intellect realises that's just scripts from "Acorn Antiques" re-made with feature film production values. "Drama" for half-wits. On the occasions when I'm forced to sit through it by family or friends, I regard it as s...

Firstly, Mr Moran was a thoroughly "good bloke". One of those inspirational and genuinely heart warming teachers who, even now, I remember with fondness and respect. He was ex-Navy, and much the better for it. Not one of those nit-wit teachers who'd lived their entire, sorry, little life in academia...

I don't agree that something has necessarily been lost in the current selection process. We've just finished RXing the next series and the quarters, semis and final were fantastic matches. Very exciting. I think it's a very good show and I'd rather see a genuine contest between the sharpest minds a ...

It seems to have been given a fair old bashing by some of the critics....quite rightly IMHO

Yeah I agree Simon, the closing shots do work. The closing music and the shots work well together but it's spoiled by the stupid Toblerone effect. IMHO it just doesn't work. It looks silly! As an optical effect, done in post, so that you were seeing the frame reflected like a kaleidoscope it would h...

I remember at School one Xmas just before we broke up for the holidays our Technical Drawing master, Mr Moran, used a double period to show us "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" as a seasonal treat. I can't remember exactly but we were in the 4th or 5th form, so about 15 or 16 years of age. One, miserable,...

I couldn't disagree more. I think the original titles - although charming for their own sake and their novelty value - are rather limp. The later titles are smashing! ;-) They are dynamic and perfectly demonstrate what the show is. They're also extremely well shot. Indeed, the shot you mention with ...

Very funny, and typical of "new build" TV facilities. Most of the sensible old guard have gone now and these shiny new workspaces are planned by grinning half-wits and lunatic architects. A certain other recently built TV production facility was proudly "tapeless". When sensible, operational people ...

Besides which if you are working overnight it has various social and indeed health implications, therefore a proper enhancement for the employee/penalty for the employer is perfectly fair. Only the other day I walked into a studio that had been turned around overnight. I said to my mate the scenic ...

I like to think that in those days, when ITV was making massive amounts of money, it was just a fair distribution of the wealth - rather like the John Lewis Partnership ;-) Besides which if you are working overnight it has various social and indeed health implications, therefore a proper enhancement...