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TV Live Forum | TV Live

rob posted:
JamesWorldNews posted:
Thanks for the welcome notification email, Rob! It’s all getting real and near!


With one absolutely colossal balls-up...


Two surely? Smile

Am both disappointed pre-registered people have to wait a whole month to login after launch but also pleased I'll be able to mark up the form with green ink and post copies off to you in the new, efficient 'report by post' system Smile
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…and finally

I think I probably speak for a lot of the founding crew that TV Forum has been a really important part of our lives for all these years.

We’ve grown up with it, it’s nurtured our interest in presentation and the way tv ‘works’ and it also helped us realise that we were not alone in having an interest and passion - and it’s hard to underestimate how important that has been at times.

The familiar names - Bail, Isonstine, Rob, to name just a few - it’s been a pleasure being part of the community with you.

To the insiders - whose insight is valued beyond words by 95% of us who share your passion, thank you, your posts are always a highlight.

To Asa - you’re a legend. Thank you for putting up with the rotas and the tantrums. As someone who briefly hosted the TV Home Forum in one of our great forum crashes in the early days, I’m genuinely proud to have been a small part of this site.

I hope someone can capture the best of this site and continue the discussion. But it genuinely will be the end of an era - for me, for many. And for a website that involves people chatting about the stuff that most don’t notice, that’s quite a legacy.
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End of the road for UTV?

I guarantee the word ‘Ulster’ will not be used.
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Wales Today Central Square launch

dvboy posted:
Evening edition of Wales Today not available on iPlayer after an interview guest left a *ahem* item *ahem* on the bookshelf behind them.

What a cock up eh
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BBC One Christmas idents 2020

The music on the Gruffalo’s Child one is particularly lovely.
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Edited out of Masterchef

Inspector Sands posted:
Having died is no reason in itself for not having someone appear on a programme. It depends on the relatives.


In terms of quality of the edit, if the issue was found before post production they'd have never edited him in in the first place.

One theory I've read online (according to a 'friends mum who works on the show') is that the contestant told one of the judges to, erm, f themselves.


This feels like the most plausible - two go through from that round, but while one was above the rest and went straight through, they then judged the two featured contestants to pick the next.

So it appeared they were only judging three to me - so either the edited out chef was awful - or if they’d told someone to F off, disqualified.

But then that doesn’t explain the lack of a group shot in the reveal.... unless they refilmed the judging and reveal, but presumably it would need to be quickly after for the rest of the competition.

All really odd!
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Odd opening titles on Look North

Andrew posted:
Some quite odd opening titles were used at the start of lunchtime Look North (Yorkshire) today

The footage of places featured included Leeds, Sheffield, Hull and Manchester, and instead of place names animating around, it said ‘North Today’ instead (the endboard still said Look North)

Also Luxmy said that viewers in East Yorks & Lincs were also with us this lunchtime


They definitely looked like emergency titles for if either Manchester or Hull couldn't opt - presumably North Today to try and cover off the North West Today audience!
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Slight issue with the headlines on the One

Andrew posted:
Yes it has happened again and then we were met with a ridiculously stretched image on the catwalk where one image was stretched across all three screens


Bit different today - the opt happened with sport headlines on News Channel, but then the opening clearly went wrong as we cut to the camera panning from chair to catwalk...
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Coronavirus | Schedule Changes

FBC posted:
TIGHazard posted:
CBBC have scheduled "bitesize for primary", the week after half term @ 10AM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl9r/2020/11/02

I don't really want to get all speculative here, but with the hints of a "circuit breaker" lockdown, I can only imagine that is the reason why.

The circuit breaker in Wales is scheduled to last until the 9th of November, so that does make sense.


Except primary schools in Wales reopen on the 2nd - they aren’t included in the lockdown.

However, there’s no harm in transmitting shows like this at the moment as there are plenty of children who are self-isolating and can’t go into the classroom.
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BBC News nostalgia, including BBC World

Spencer posted:
Steve Williams posted:
I was on the MHP mailing list at the time and there was great discussion about which one was going to go next, seemingly it was just whichever show needed a new set the soonest and when they had a spare weekend to do it, it was a very slow roll-out over a year or more.


That makes sense. I remember Look North Leeds were quite late to adopt it, presumably as they'd only had a new look and set in October 1997. Newcastle had also got new titles on the same date, but I don't think they updated their set at that point, so it was probably more due for replacement by late 1999.


Leeds was April 2000 IIRC
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The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

Andrew posted:
I might be wrong but I'm sure when they went corporate, they kept the old pre-corporate circular desk for North of Westminster as well. The corporate soft set debuted much later


They did indeed - the soft set launched well into the Christa Ackroyd era. Having sat on one of the chairs, I can confirm they were not comfy!
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The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

Steve in Pudsey posted:


Loved these titles - the ones they were replaced with (in the YouTube clip above) were not a patch on them.

Also, that clip shows the size of the Woodhouse Lane studio where you could have two sets opposite each other. Such a shame to compare that to what they have now!