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- Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:07 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: An Audience With Les Dawson that never was!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6999
Re: An Audience With Les Dawson that never was!
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...
- Sun May 26, 2013 7:14 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: What A Tragic Waste !
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3568
Re: What A Tragic Waste !
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...
- Sun May 26, 2013 7:08 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: An Audience With Les Dawson that never was!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6999
Re: An Audience With Les Dawson that never was!
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...
- Sat May 25, 2013 8:59 pm
- Forum: Tech Ops
- Topic: DMI dumped
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3229
Re: DMI dumped
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...
- Wed May 22, 2013 9:29 pm
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Richard Thorp (1932-2013) RIP
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1015
Re: Richard Thorp (1932-2013) RIP
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...
- Mon May 13, 2013 7:10 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour etc
- Replies: 159
- Views: 18691
Re: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour et
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 ;-)
- Mon May 13, 2013 7:02 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: It'll be Bad on the Night.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 9537
Re: It'll be Bad on the Night.
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...
- Mon May 13, 2013 6:49 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: It'll be Bad on the Night.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 9537
Re: It'll be Bad on the Night.
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.
- Mon May 13, 2013 6:31 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: It'll be Bad on the Night.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 9537
Re: It'll be Bad on the Night.
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 ;-)
- Mon May 13, 2013 6:08 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: It'll be Bad on the Night.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 9537
Re: It'll be Bad on the Night.
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...
- Mon May 13, 2013 4:57 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Schools programmes: why did they have to 'follow shortly'?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5890
Re: Schools programmes: why did they have to 'follow shortly
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, ...
- Sun May 12, 2013 1:17 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Schools programmes: why did they have to 'follow shortly'?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5890
Re: Schools programmes: why did they have to 'follow shortly
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 "...
- Sun May 12, 2013 9:19 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: ITV to Channel 4 transfers
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3158
Re: ITV to Channel 4 transfers
Granada's "Brass" made the switch from ITV to C4 didn't it?
- Sat May 11, 2013 6:19 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: "Knightmare" on Challenge
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2146
Re: "Knightmare" on Challenge
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 hope Network don't start getting supplied with doctored source material.....
- Fri May 10, 2013 2:12 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Schools programmes: why did they have to 'follow shortly'?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5890
Re: Schools programmes: why did they have to 'follow shortly
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...
- Thu May 09, 2013 5:43 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: 'Vicious...' and 'The Job Lot'.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4366
Re: 'Vicious...' and 'The Job Lot'.
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...
- Thu May 09, 2013 12:20 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour etc
- Replies: 159
- Views: 18691
Re: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour et
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...
- Wed May 08, 2013 9:11 pm
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: Ian Hendry Biography
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3242
Re: Ian Hendry Biography
He's one of my favourites. I'll be interested to read it.
- Wed May 08, 2013 9:06 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour etc
- Replies: 159
- Views: 18691
Re: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour et
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 ...
- Wed May 08, 2013 9:45 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour etc
- Replies: 159
- Views: 18691
Re: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour et
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...
- Mon May 06, 2013 10:03 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour etc
- Replies: 159
- Views: 18691
Re: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour et
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...
- Fri May 03, 2013 7:53 pm
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: Psycho in schools/ Film certificates
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2279
Re: Psycho in schools/ Film certificates
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...
- Thu Apr 25, 2013 2:56 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: The University Challenge 'Trotsky' incident
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2305
Re: The University Challenge 'Trotsky' incident
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 ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:04 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The Wright Way
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2453
Re: The Wright Way
It seems to have been given a fair old bashing by some of the critics....quite rightly IMHO
- Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:59 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: The Professionals from Network???
- Replies: 44
- Views: 7260
Re: The Professionals from Network???
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...
- Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:20 pm
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: Psycho in schools/ Film certificates
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2279
Re: Psycho in schools/ Film certificates
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,...
- Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:57 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: The Professionals from Network???
- Replies: 44
- Views: 7260
Re: The Professionals from Network???
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 ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2013 8:59 pm
- Forum: Tech Ops
- Topic: The Cutting Edge
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1186
Re: The Cutting Edge
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 ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2013 12:40 pm
- Forum: Forum Notes and Queries
- Topic: No Maggie obit
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5357
Re: No Maggie obit
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 ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2013 12:19 pm
- Forum: Forum Notes and Queries
- Topic: No Maggie obit
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5357
Re: No Maggie obit
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...