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Martin Lambie-Nairn has died

benriggers posted:
If anyone is interested an official Youtube Channel has been set up: The Martin Lambie-Nairn Collection.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQafatcDPLwhWoxB4qxpl2w/videos

Cool, the balloon closedown montage in widescreen (55 secs in):

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YouTube Gold

Inspector Sands posted:
I still don't really understand why there's a solitary window on site there.... I assume that the director saw it there and though that's too good an opportunity to miss using it

just came across this spin-off thread that seems to explains it somewhat.
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Good Morning Britain

Jonwo posted:
On the flipside, let's hope people don't go OTT with the hugging when the day comes that 2m is no longer required.

We may be out of lockdown by then but we’ll still be British!
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YouTube Gold

If I understand the Twitter thread correctly, it’s just that someone who works for the BBC found the rushes in the archive recently and has the means to do it, I don’t think it was done for any sort of commercial release.
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The original film footage for the Bottom opening titles has been transferred to HD:

https://vimeo.com/515651356
paul_hadley and Larry the Loafer gave kudos
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Top Gear new series from Television Centre

Top Gear’s a pretty good show at the moment. I’d prefer watching any episode with the current presenters over the latest Grand Tour special.
Cando, Joe and Brekkie gave kudos
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TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread

That's a slightly unusual breakdown for the time isn't it, instead of the programme slide with music it's an odd programme with footage of aircraft but no narration, which still allows the announcer to break in from time to time to explain what's going on (along with a caption). Well handled though I have to say.
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What you like about this telly stuff...

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Larry the Loafer posted:
I think we'd be kidding ourselves if we didn't think our kink for telly stuff was "niche", to put it lightly.

For me though it's just a niche of an interest in a much bigger topic - design. Product design, brand identity, graphic design, user interfaces, title sequences, it's all stuff you wouldn't want to bore people about at a party but it's still a pretty big topic, and TV presentation is just one part of it for me.

I've always just loved TV in general so it's no surprise that these two interests came together. I think what sparked it off for me was these great animations that CITV used to use:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOi5A9fsLGM

Yeah, I'm pretty much the same. For me, it was watching CBBC, and seeing the graphics used on the continuity but also lots of the other shows. The most exciting time for me was when the CBBC channel launched, and the use of the green bugs interrupting both CBBC continuity and BBC One. It felt like the buildup to the launch took ages back then, but I guess it was only a couple of weeks.

The idea of going from CBBC Choice to a proper full-time channel felt very cool to me. I guess as an adult I would say that it was exciting that so much was being invested in young people, though of course I wouldn't think of it in those terms.

Anyway, I loved the graphics but I also loved the sets, and how it worked in the sense of studios. I still think the 2002 TC2/9 CBBC sets are things of beauty. Bright colours, very on-brand, but in a suprising, modern way. And the presenters themselves added to the 'cool' vibe (certainly for a child). I always wanted to see behind the scenes of the live shows – Blue Peter, continuity, XChange, the Saturday morning shows and so on. At one point as a child, I wanted to be a camera operator. In a funny old way I've kind of achieved that goal through my current work.

The 2002 CBBC relaunch was really great. It felt like they'd given it all a massive upgrade even if you couldn't get the new channel (which I couldn't until we got digital later that year). Plus the fact that CBBC now felt more 'grown up' because of the split helped a lot as I was the right age for that to appeal to me. Is it just me or did the presenters start dressing a lot more cooler at the time too? Not that I am any authority on what is cool!

Hard to believe that not only did CBBC and CITV have big fancy sets for in-vision presentation, but so did Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel! We were spoilt.
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What you like about this telly stuff...

Larry the Loafer posted:
I think we'd be kidding ourselves if we didn't think our kink for telly stuff was "niche", to put it lightly.

For me though it's just a niche of an interest in a much bigger topic - design. Product design, brand identity, graphic design, user interfaces, title sequences, it's all stuff you wouldn't want to bore people about at a party but it's still a pretty big topic, and TV presentation is just one part of it for me.

I've always just loved TV in general so it's no surprise that these two interests came together. I think what sparked it off for me was these great animations that CITV used to use:

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Revivals

Jonwo posted:
james-2001 posted:
I'd argue despite being a spin-off, Frasier is a very different show to Cheers. Even Frasier's character is different in many ways, I guess at least partly because he was the main character rather than just one part of an ensemble so he needed to be able to carry the show.

It's interesting that Frasier managed to be a success but something like Joey was a two season wonder.

Frasier had likeable supporting characters. Joey did not.
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Bank Balance

Andrew posted:
JonathanE19 posted:
I absolutely disagree. I think he was an amazing host for a game show. Very normal and down to earth... I really enjoyed it

I'm not sure, his patter was a bit wooden. Focussing on "going out out" about 10 times like that's all he had from the initial chat

He seemed a strange hybrid of game show host and his usual persona, neither one or the other at times.

I've always found him to be a bit wooden when he tries to do straight presenting to the camera, so not especially surprised to hear this.
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Coronation Street

Wasn't the actual programme address something like itv-coronationstreet.co.uk?