Hunting Ban

Have to remember to set the video then.

Why didn't they do it on Monday, in the 'Inside Out' slot ?

(I noticed the Sunday Mercury TV Listings still show Billy Connolly though! How much notice do TV Listings companies get ? Seems to be virtually none IMO !)

No, I'm currently recording Billy on that channel.

Well Look North NE&C special has some strange orange/white titles. The studio seems to have some computer graphics overlaid onto some walls. Astons are the same as the usual Look North programmes.

The chair Carol is sitting on looks like it's been grabbed from the smoking room.

you've gotta love the HUGE name astons on the midlands special, and mike collie in a big wooly jumper and wax jacket.

Astons from Hull

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So was the programme title branded under your usual BBC local news programme name, or did it have a special name? I missed the beginning of the BBC South West programme but it basically just looked like a normal edition of Spotlight - usual astons and music...

And why was the programme not listed correctly in the Sky EPG etc? It's been planned for ages!

It seems only London and North West didnt put out a special.

I can see why London didnt put out a special, but North West Tonight? The North West was home to the last of the country's big hunting events earlier in the week at Altcar, and BBC North West covers Cheshire and Lancashire, yet we still didnt get one.

But surely there's no way they'd get Burnsy out of his coffin on a Sunday, is there?

all in all a nice programme - i sensed a little bias from one reporter, which is a shame, but 10/10 for effort. in the old days central would have wheeled out a 30 minutes special - i guess this is evidence that the bbc realise they're going to have to pick up the bits itv once did.

there was a lovely long announcement into the programme - although no mention of where viewers will get to see the episode of billy they have now missed.

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some rather graphic footage - the dogs rip the fox apart, then that bloke lets the dog lick his face ... and who says theyre not all interbred in the country

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and no credits at the end

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oh and they slipped in a les ross trailer - which ran out and faded to black. i notice they've made a version of the trailer with 7.00 on the digital clock ... i wonder if its incase they give the morning show to les full time. oh well, we can but hope!

How did the various English Regions introduce their programmes? Did they use generic "This is BBC 1 <insert name of region>" annos over the symbols, or did they use specific annos? If the latter... who did they use to voice the symbols? Any old random person from the news room... or a local radio DJ or newsreader... or someone else?

BBC South's introduction was voiced by Caroline Richardson, who happened to be reading the news earlier in the evening. Not that it's unsusual for such a thing to happen in this region, until recently that's how Inside Out was introduced most weeks.

I liked the minor set alterations, a huge picture of a fox behind Sally Taylor. I felt the programme was only let down by one of the 'live' interviews, where a clock was clearly in-view (I forget the time but it was early evening) shattering the illussion that Sally had come into work on a day she woudln't normally and stayed up late.

linsey doyle voiced over the midlands ident. although its worth noting you very rarely hear network announcers over midlands idents anyway.