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Discussion of presentation and programming (October 2011)

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JA
Jamesypoo
Text Santa was a good programme, tonight's felt better than the launch show, and a mixture of children in need and Saturday Night Takeaway. Ant, Dec & Holly did a great job, and over £3million isn't a bad total for the first year, unlike Children in Need & Comic/Sport Relief, they didn't say if the total contained money raised from Merchandise.

Does any body know what was used to create the backdrop to the lovely set design? With the animations, twinkling stars and many overlays, I presume that it was some Sort of display, but it seemed to fill the whole wall of Studio 1.


There were lots of little (what I assume were) LED screens like the Sky Newswall, with everything from the roofs of the buildings upwards being a graphic placed on top using a little trickery to move with the camera at certain times. If you looked closely you could see the seam.
JO
Jon
I'm glad to see Helen Mirren has offered to stand in for The Queen today as she contintues to look after Prince Phillip.

http://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail.asp?id=111810590
:-(
A former member
WHY Cant the BBC give us other CHRISTMAS Special on Christmas morning instead of the great M&W: How about the

* Two Ronnies 1985 Special:
* Mike Yarwood?
JA
JAS84
I'm glad to see Helen Mirren has offered to stand in for The Queen today as she contintues to look after Prince Phillip.

http://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail.asp?id=111810590
lol, right description, wrong photo! Idiots. I bet they also have a picture of Tony Shalhoub for CITV's Monk (there's two completely different shows called that, and CITV's is a cartoon).
JO
Jon
It would be nice for Channel 4 to return to a non serious christmas once in a while, historically it was good mixture with some years being something more 'fun' and other years something more 'worthy'. The last few years it just seems to have been the 'worthy' ones. You'd think they'd be more scope to do one of each now that they seem to be allowing two.

I feel this years message should have been done by Angelos Epithemiou, a comedy talent that's really emerged in the last couple of years and is about to start his own Channel 4 show.
Last edited by Jon on 25 December 2011 7:30pm
ME
mediaman2007
Text Santa credits thanking all on screen 'talent' yet nothing for the production team, crew etc as there would be on any normal programme. How charitable.

But the thing is people don't really care who worked behind the scenes on a programme.


They're called credits for a reason.

Even if this programme was odd enough not to include credits, don't include the 'stars' and not those who actually make the thing happen.
JO
Jon
Text Santa credits thanking all on screen 'talent' yet nothing for the production team, crew etc as there would be on any normal programme. How charitable.

But the thing is people don't really care who worked behind the scenes on a programme.


They're called credits for a reason.

Tesco is called Tesco for a reason I don't see how that's relevant.
JB
JasonB
Is there a Christmas special of TV Burp this year?
J1
j10cool10
Was watching 4Music eariler, and noticed they billed the 10pm programme as "After EastEnders". This is the second time I've seen Channel 4 do this (the first being Black Mirror, after The X Factor). Have they done this for any other shows?
JA
JAS84
Was watching 4Music eariler, and noticed they billed the 10pm programme as "After EastEnders". This is the second time I've seen Channel 4 do this (the first being Black Mirror, after The X Factor). Have they done this for any other shows?
It's a good idea. The plan is, you change the channel after the programme finishes, and Channel 4's show should be about to start. The only reason we don't see this advertising technique more often is that they don't really like advertising rival channels' shows.
ME
mediaman2007
Text Santa credits thanking all on screen 'talent' yet nothing for the production team, crew etc as there would be on any normal programme. How charitable.

But the thing is people don't really care who worked behind the scenes on a programme.


They're called credits for a reason.

Tesco is called Tesco for a reason I don't see how that's relevant.


Lmao.
WP
WillPS
So rounding up -

BBC One - mediocre and annoying, but nice to see variety
BBC Two - wonderful
ITV1 - bland, boring, mediocre
Channel 4 - nothing, unsurprising but still slightly disappointing
Channel 5 - meh
ITV2 - great and unexpected
E4 - can't complain
Sky1/2 - nothing, very disappointing
Challenge - nice effort
Sky Movies - lovely stuff

Overall, a pretty poor show - notable exceptions being BBC Two and ITV2. I just hope the lack of Sky1 presentation means they're unwilling to invest in the set since they're planning its replacement.

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