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End of the News

(March 2012)

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WW
WW Update
David posted:


I've not seen anyone do any of these yet, so if there are any budding newsreaders on TV Forum please feel free to take one of these and make it in to your own signature sign off. You can thank me in your autobiography.

- scratch ones nose.
- stand up and walk out of shot.
- spit in to a bucket under the desk.
- kick off ones shoes.
- start shouting at someone off screen (real or imagined) and violently waving ones hands about.


- slide casually under the desk.

Oh, wait; that really happened in France when the closing sequence went on for just a bit too long:

WW
WW Update
At least the French anchor was fully clothed, unlike this anchor on POP TV in Slovenia:

JW
JamesWorldNews
Live at five with Jeremy posted:
bilky asko posted:
James Vertigan posted:
It's what they talk about once the mics go off that I want to know! Laughing


I'm sure somebody on here once said that often they'd say nothing so nothing inappropriate would get to air.


Trust me, inappropriate things are said from time to time!


The time: 6:26pm
The place: BBC Six o'Clock News set
The year: 1990
The players: John Humphrys and Moira Stuart
The words: "You're the most sensationally sexy lady I know. The best thing we can do is go down to the basement and make mad passionate love for the next hour."

Famously captured by the Ceefax subtitling people who - in those days - did subtitles on the Six for the hard of hearing.

The outcome: Moira shreiked so loud that her hair stood-up on end and remained in the same position for years, thus earning her the title 'BIG MOIRA'. She also had a big hearty laugh about it as well.

Wonder if she said yes or no...............................
GE
thegeek Founding member
David posted:
Are there really written BBC guidelines on what to do? I assumed newsreaders just found something that felt natural and worked for them and stuck with it.

Indeed. I once asked Lucy Hockings about this: just before the start of The World Today, her and her co-presenter could be seen on the N9 studio output chatting away (or studiously ignoring each other and working on their scripts) - but a few seconds before they'd go on air, they'd turn to each other, smile, and turn back to camera just as the studio went live. Apparently it wasn't taught; wasn't required, but just a newsreader 'thing' that seemed natural to do.
JA
Jamesypoo
James Vertigan posted:
It's what they talk about once the mics go off that I want to know! Laughing


On Anglia Tonight, the mics weren't faded down properly and Jonathan Wills said to the weather presenter "this is the bit where we pretend to talk". Certainly not riveting stuff.
LJ
Live at five with Jeremy
This happened on TV3 in Ireland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ8_tzOkB8A
MI
Michael
NSFW 18+ (Strong language, plus early 90s haircut)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5qU4qudJYk

And the inevitable parody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGZtaoWT96E
BK
bkman1990
Live at five with Jeremy posted:
This happened on TV3 in Ireland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ8_tzOkB8A


I cannot believe that woman Sarah Carey would say such a thing when covering Tonight with Vincent Browne. She is horrible.
WO
Worzel
DanielK posted:
At the end of the news the presenters shuffle their papers, type on their keyboard or talk to each other. Why do they do this for show?


Lee Evans did a brilliant sketch about this on one of his stand up live shows.

He said something like 'You wouldn't get a plumber tapping his pipes at the end of a plumbing job, or a builder playing with his bricks at the end of a building job'... I'll see if I can find a clip!
AG
AxG
Worzel posted:
DanielK posted:
At the end of the news the presenters shuffle their papers, type on their keyboard or talk to each other. Why do they do this for show?


Lee Evans did a brilliant sketch about this on one of his stand up live shows.

He said something like 'You wouldn't get a plumber tapping his pipes at the end of a plumbing job, or a builder playing with his bricks at the end of a building job'... I'll see if I can find a clip!



From 4:35 Laughing
FB
Fluffy Bunny Feet
WW Update posted:
David posted:


I've not seen anyone do any of these yet, so if there are any budding newsreaders on TV Forum please feel free to take one of these and make it in to your own signature sign off. You can thank me in your autobiography.

- scratch ones nose.
- stand up and walk out of shot.
- spit in to a bucket under the desk.
- kick off ones shoes.
- start shouting at someone off screen (real or imagined) and violently waving ones hands about.


- slide casually under the desk.

Oh, wait; that really happened in France when the closing sequence went on for just a bit too long:



Great clip!
It looks to me either that a final item did not make it or the count was spectacularly wrong. As the music ended I suspect the latter. Also if it's a programme fitting into a network it's possible the programe slot time was lengthened. That's why an end slide is always handy - better to sit on that than an inactive studio.
WO
Worzel
AxG posted:
Worzel posted:
DanielK posted:
At the end of the news the presenters shuffle their papers, type on their keyboard or talk to each other. Why do they do this for show?


Lee Evans did a brilliant sketch about this on one of his stand up live shows.

He said something like 'You wouldn't get a plumber tapping his pipes at the end of a plumbing job, or a builder playing with his bricks at the end of a building job'... I'll see if I can find a clip!



From 4:35 Laughing


Haha, brilliant - 4:35 in as you say Smile

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