It would have to have been more like a live pause set up than recording network programmes and playing them out. At least one programme started on Midlands before it had finished on network.
Something different on tonight's MTD. An animated Nick Owen into a package about retro games. Coming out of the package Nick Owen decided to make a joke, which lead to an unnerving 4 seconds of silence while Nick grimaced at the camera.
Something different on tonight's MTD. An animated Nick Owen into a package about retro games. Coming out of the package Nick Owen decided to make a joke, which lead to an unnerving 4 seconds of silence while Nick grimaced at the camera.
Something different on tonight's MTD. An animated Nick Owen into a package about retro games. Coming out of the package Nick Owen decided to make a joke, which lead to an unnerving 4 seconds of silence while Nick grimaced at the camera.
That's Nick's type of humour - he's very droll and sends himself up - hence the deliberate "silence". He's good at raising his eyebrows - a bit like Roger Moore used to with great effect!
THE most dramatic tapping of a button on a keyboard I've ever seen. I'm sure the BBC still have this incident in the back of their minds when allowing a resigning or sacked staff member on the air.
In terms of the Midlands, Sue Beardsmore and Suzanne Virdee were taken off air suddenly without a farewell when they left for whatever reason. Kay Alexander got a farewell but she did put in a good innings and retired from the BBC amicably.
Was quite an ending for Alan though! Despite this Alan was amicable once again with the BBC after a while when he was invited back as a guest to the last episode at Pebble Mill in 2004.
Perhaps only very few people were aware of his intention to leave. There's always the danger with a live programme that the presenter goes off script.
What happened to Suzanne Virdee is well documented:
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The former Birmingham Mail reporter announced in March last year that she would not be signing a new five-month contract because of what she had called ‘circumstances beyond my control.’
It later emerged that the 42-year-old had been unable to fulfil the final two days of her contract following claims she had been ordered to leave early by Cath Hearne, head of regional programmes in the West Midlands.
Ms Hearne had been at the centre of an alleged bullying row in September 2010 after the NUJ passed votes of no confidence in her and the then acting editor Mark Hayman’s management.
