WE
Er why did UTV join the film halfway through?
They could run a discussion prog, or some fillers instead, then continued from Morse at 245pm.
No wonder people on here slag UTV off.
The Beeb go to the trouble of delaying output in certain regions, eg Question Time.
How 'clean' (for want of a better word), did BBC 1 NI rejoin Network?
(I was watching UTV, for a change, rather than English ITV1!)
They could run a discussion prog, or some fillers instead, then continued from Morse at 245pm.
No wonder people on here slag UTV off.
The Beeb go to the trouble of delaying output in certain regions, eg Question Time.
How 'clean' (for want of a better word), did BBC 1 NI rejoin Network?
(I was watching UTV, for a change, rather than English ITV1!)
EA
It seemed to me that George Best was poorly served in death today and someone should be asking whether it was a wise decision to broadcast his funeral live for more than three hours.
Starting at 9.00am there was too much time to be filled by the TV commentators as they bumped into mourners on their way to Stormont and at times it felt more like the Lord's Mayor's Parade than the funeral of a tragic sporting legend.
With Eamon Holmes at the helm of the 'service' it was hard to distinguish it from a prime time tribute show. Maybe it should have been billed as "An Audience with...George Best".
There were far too many badly scripted tributes - aside from the family's own representatives who are entitled to express themselves as they choose. Did we really need to listen to George Best's 'doctor' talking about Saddam Hussein, George Best and Iraq?
And even the attempt to begin with a minute's silence was completely ruined by the sound of the helicopter hovering overhead. Which media organization was responsible for that?
George Best deserved a great celebration. He rightly meant a lot to the people of Northern Ireland. But this 'funeral service' was a poor offering.
Starting at 9.00am there was too much time to be filled by the TV commentators as they bumped into mourners on their way to Stormont and at times it felt more like the Lord's Mayor's Parade than the funeral of a tragic sporting legend.
With Eamon Holmes at the helm of the 'service' it was hard to distinguish it from a prime time tribute show. Maybe it should have been billed as "An Audience with...George Best".
There were far too many badly scripted tributes - aside from the family's own representatives who are entitled to express themselves as they choose. Did we really need to listen to George Best's 'doctor' talking about Saddam Hussein, George Best and Iraq?
And even the attempt to begin with a minute's silence was completely ruined by the sound of the helicopter hovering overhead. Which media organization was responsible for that?
George Best deserved a great celebration. He rightly meant a lot to the people of Northern Ireland. But this 'funeral service' was a poor offering.
EA
It seemed to me that George Best was poorly served in death today and someone should be asking whether it was a wise decision to broadcast his funeral live for more than three hours.
Starting at 9.00am there was too much time to be filled by the TV commentators as they bumped into mourners on their way to Stormont and at times it felt more like the Lord's Mayor's Parade than the funeral of a tragic sporting legend.
With Eamon Holmes at the helm of the 'service' it was hard to distinguish it from a prime time tribute show. Maybe it should have been billed as "An Audience with...George Best".
There were far too many badly scripted tributes - aside from the family's own representatives who are entitled to express themselves as they choose. Did we really need to listen to George Best's 'doctor' talking about Saddam Hussein, George Best and Iraq?
And even the attempt to begin with a minute's silence was completely ruined by the sound of the helicopter hovering overhead. Which media organization was responsible for that?
George Best deserved a great celebration. He rightly meant a lot to the people of Northern Ireland. But this 'funeral service' was a poor offering.
Starting at 9.00am there was too much time to be filled by the TV commentators as they bumped into mourners on their way to Stormont and at times it felt more like the Lord's Mayor's Parade than the funeral of a tragic sporting legend.
With Eamon Holmes at the helm of the 'service' it was hard to distinguish it from a prime time tribute show. Maybe it should have been billed as "An Audience with...George Best".
There were far too many badly scripted tributes - aside from the family's own representatives who are entitled to express themselves as they choose. Did we really need to listen to George Best's 'doctor' talking about Saddam Hussein, George Best and Iraq?
And even the attempt to begin with a minute's silence was completely ruined by the sound of the helicopter hovering overhead. Which media organization was responsible for that?
George Best deserved a great celebration. He rightly meant a lot to the people of Northern Ireland. But this 'funeral service' was a poor offering.
EA
It seemed to me that George Best was poorly served in death today and someone should be asking whether it was a wise decision to broadcast his funeral live for more than three hours.
Starting at 9.00am there was too much time to be filled by the TV commentators as they bumped into mourners on their way to Stormont and at times it felt more like the Lord's Mayor's Parade than the funeral of a tragic sporting legend.
With Eamon Holmes at the helm of the 'service' it was hard to distinguish it from a prime time tribute show. Maybe it should have been billed as "An Audience with...George Best".
There were far too many badly scripted tributes - aside from the family's own representatives who are entitled to express themselves as they choose. Did we really need to listen to George Best's 'doctor' talking about Saddam Hussein, George Best and Iraq?
And even the attempt to begin with a minute's silence was completely ruined by the sound of the helicopter hovering overhead. Which media organization was responsible for that?
George Best deserved a great celebration. He rightly meant a lot to the people of Northern Ireland. But this 'funeral service' was a poor offering.
Starting at 9.00am there was too much time to be filled by the TV commentators as they bumped into mourners on their way to Stormont and at times it felt more like the Lord's Mayor's Parade than the funeral of a tragic sporting legend.
With Eamon Holmes at the helm of the 'service' it was hard to distinguish it from a prime time tribute show. Maybe it should have been billed as "An Audience with...George Best".
There were far too many badly scripted tributes - aside from the family's own representatives who are entitled to express themselves as they choose. Did we really need to listen to George Best's 'doctor' talking about Saddam Hussein, George Best and Iraq?
And even the attempt to begin with a minute's silence was completely ruined by the sound of the helicopter hovering overhead. Which media organization was responsible for that?
George Best deserved a great celebration. He rightly meant a lot to the people of Northern Ireland. But this 'funeral service' was a poor offering.
DE
How 'clean' (for want of a better word), did BBC 1 NI rejoin Network?
BBC 1 NI decided to stay with the funeral cortege until the hearse entered Roselawn cemetery: by that stage Grandstand was already on-air. BBC 1 NI faded off their programme to several seconds of black, mixed in to a trail for Egypt, then introduced the tennis coverage, mixing to vision from the Albert Hall before fading up the sound (rather than just cutting hard in to network). It was as 'clean' as it could possibly have been, given the editorial circumstances.
Westy2 posted:
How 'clean' (for want of a better word), did BBC 1 NI rejoin Network?
BBC 1 NI decided to stay with the funeral cortege until the hearse entered Roselawn cemetery: by that stage Grandstand was already on-air. BBC 1 NI faded off their programme to several seconds of black, mixed in to a trail for Egypt, then introduced the tennis coverage, mixing to vision from the Albert Hall before fading up the sound (rather than just cutting hard in to network). It was as 'clean' as it could possibly have been, given the editorial circumstances.
AN
Just to confirm, are you saying that UTV crashed into a film that was already running?
Andrew
Founding member
Westy2 posted:
Er why did UTV join the film halfway through?
They could run a discussion prog, or some fillers instead, then continued from Morse at 245pm.
No wonder people on here slag UTV off. )
They could run a discussion prog, or some fillers instead, then continued from Morse at 245pm.
No wonder people on here slag UTV off. )
Just to confirm, are you saying that UTV crashed into a film that was already running?
WE
Just to confirm, are you saying that UTV crashed into a film that was already running?
Yep, preceded by an anno, along the lines of 'We're now joining the film', then a few mins later, the film went into a break too !
I purposlidy watched UTV after noticing the EPG had not been updated, as it was showing the likes of 'ITV at the movies', which UTV didn't take at all, followed by the film, but the film was definetely late, plus UTV News before was late too!
Shoddy IMO, despite the occasion.
Beats my previous major ITV presentation cock up, at the time of Mandela's release, Central had interupted 'Highway To Heaven' (the Michael Landon thing) to go to the ITN coverage, then when they finished, LWT took over with a caption card & an anno, saying they were returning to 'McCloud' (the Dennis Weaver thing), before Central hastily cut in with their caption card & anno, returning to 'Highway To Heaven'
Andrew posted:
Westy2 posted:
Er why did UTV join the film halfway through?
They could run a discussion prog, or some fillers instead, then continued from Morse at 245pm.
No wonder people on here slag UTV off. )
They could run a discussion prog, or some fillers instead, then continued from Morse at 245pm.
No wonder people on here slag UTV off. )
Just to confirm, are you saying that UTV crashed into a film that was already running?
Yep, preceded by an anno, along the lines of 'We're now joining the film', then a few mins later, the film went into a break too !
I purposlidy watched UTV after noticing the EPG had not been updated, as it was showing the likes of 'ITV at the movies', which UTV didn't take at all, followed by the film, but the film was definetely late, plus UTV News before was late too!
Shoddy IMO, despite the occasion.
Beats my previous major ITV presentation cock up, at the time of Mandela's release, Central had interupted 'Highway To Heaven' (the Michael Landon thing) to go to the ITN coverage, then when they finished, LWT took over with a caption card & an anno, saying they were returning to 'McCloud' (the Dennis Weaver thing), before Central hastily cut in with their caption card & anno, returning to 'Highway To Heaven'
NE
BBC One used Tai Chi instead of Ballet (they didn't use it on Remembrance Sunday either), I thought it was supposed to be reserved for funerals and such occasions.
GE
Yeah, i thought that as well. Although i think tai chi is quite a good ident for reflection also
MA
Times of National Reflection is when Ballet dusted off. Obvisously felt not to be a time of national reflection.
Newsreader posted:
BBC One used Tai Chi instead of Ballet (they didn't use it on Remembrance Sunday either), I thought it was supposed to be reserved for funerals and such occasions.
Times of National Reflection is when Ballet dusted off. Obvisously felt not to be a time of national reflection.