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What stuff-ups have you seen? (October 2010)

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Worzel
Just watch the BBC News channel, you don't have to watch it for long usually before something goes wrong. Wink They have been a lot better in recent months though. Smile
JA
Jamesypoo
Worzel posted:
Just watch the BBC News channel, you don't have to watch it for long usually before something goes wrong. Wink They have been a lot better in recent months though. Smile


Those bloody barco's.
IS
Inspector Sands
Neil Jones posted:
Also the infamous launch of Central News South from 1989, where everything and then some more went spectacularly wrong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPVTXwdHvXc

Oh my, I'd never heard of that before.... how painful. However did they let it launch when it obviously wasn't ready? What a awful set/studio too
WO
Worzel
Inspector Sands posted:
Neil Jones posted:
Also the infamous launch of Central News South from 1989, where everything and then some more went spectacularly wrong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPVTXwdHvXc

Oh my, I'd never heard of that before.... how painful. However did they let it launch when it obviously wasn't ready? What a awful set/studio too


I'll give the BBC NC some credit... it isn't that bad in heinsight!
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
This one never fails to make me smile :

Warning contains strong language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYAMDhVT50I

What was she thinking ? Laughing
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Worzel
Some of my favourites...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BImuobqTcds (BBC News channel: Tomasz Schafernaker sticks his fingers up at the camera without knowing he's on air)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HtEmhMfz7M (BBC News channel: Tomasz Schafernaker doesn't get a cue to walks off the green screen set before his weather forecast).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5hcm-CZkKQ (Sky News: Harold Pinter has died... has won the Nobel Prize blooper)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jYffROhaqo&NR=1 (Sky News: Sky News play out an earlier take of Richard Littlejohn fluffing up an opener - with him swearing).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rsfhADDKcs&feature=related (Sky News: Football Hooligans mob Sky news after England defeat).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsQW1JqOGqU (BBC News 24: The gallery cut to James Landale at Downing street when he was cueing the gallery by waving!).

And the ultimate... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG9kCi3dbL8 Adam Bolton Looses his rag with Alastair Campbell!
Last edited by Worzel on 20 October 2010 1:39am - 5 times in total
IS
Inspector Sands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaYnLbAKQrA
WO
Worzel
Infact any interview with George Galloway goes one way or the other, as poor old Anna Botting found out on Sky News...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249JaIaubVw&feature=related
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Worzel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgFGK9yE83o&feature=related

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOc4XgBespw

This is very funny....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA0W0h9ABv8&feature=related
Last edited by Worzel on 20 October 2010 2:03am - 2 times in total
DA
David
This is a little like a real life version of this

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