JW
Former BBC Man, Adrian Finighan, perfectly sums up the BBCs coverage in his Twitter feed. I couldn't have put it better myself.
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Which is ........
Former BBC Man, Adrian Finighan, perfectly sums up the BBCs coverage in his Twitter feed. I couldn't have put it better myself.
Which is ........
GI
Adrian Finighan Twitter
I see no lies said there.
Just too much filler on BBC.
Quote:
Shame the BBC's coverage of the river pageant, patriotic crowds and unique British atmosphere is so lame....
...weak B listers detracting from the sterling efforts of Claire Balding and others who know how to do this sort of thing...
I know the weather will have upset wireless camera technologies but the commentary feels woefully under researched and prepared....
...we've turned over. CNN's doing a better job of conveying the atmos with far fewer resources!
...weak B listers detracting from the sterling efforts of Claire Balding and others who know how to do this sort of thing...
I know the weather will have upset wireless camera technologies but the commentary feels woefully under researched and prepared....
...we've turned over. CNN's doing a better job of conveying the atmos with far fewer resources!
I see no lies said there.
Just too much filler on BBC.
JW
I think you're right.
Maybe the BBC was missing someone like David Dimbleby commentating
I think you're right.
DA
Huw Edwards seems to have the series presenter role. He introduced the coverage today and will introduce the concert tomorrow. He also introduced Prince Charles' Home Video Howlers on Friday night and may introduce Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty's Service later today too. I suppose it is similar to Jeremy Vine's role on Panorama.
I feel that it was generally the correct programme for BBC One but probably not the right programme to be shown on the BBC News Channel. If it had been a BBC News production then I would be saying the opposite, something is always going to jar when a general entertainment channel broadcasts the same thing as a news channel.
Maybe the BBC News Channel should have used the red button feed and only simulcast the commentary with none of the studio or entertainment bits. It wouldn't have cost any more and would have provided two different types of coverage.
Been dipping in and out of the coverage on the BBC today. I never understood the point of having Huw at Buckingham Palace, or at all if I'm honest. We saw him for a bit at the start and a bit at the end and that was it, kind of seemed a bit pointless.
Huw Edwards seems to have the series presenter role. He introduced the coverage today and will introduce the concert tomorrow. He also introduced Prince Charles' Home Video Howlers on Friday night and may introduce Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty's Service later today too. I suppose it is similar to Jeremy Vine's role on Panorama.
Only other irritants were naturally Fearne Cotton & Tess Daily, both with ego's bigger than Tower Bridge and not really suitable presenters for this type of occasion. Also didn't really understand why they thought many people would be interested in people painting on the Millennium Bridge, though I suppose it filled some air time.
I feel that it was generally the correct programme for BBC One but probably not the right programme to be shown on the BBC News Channel. If it had been a BBC News production then I would be saying the opposite, something is always going to jar when a general entertainment channel broadcasts the same thing as a news channel.
Maybe the BBC News Channel should have used the red button feed and only simulcast the commentary with none of the studio or entertainment bits. It wouldn't have cost any more and would have provided two different types of coverage.
BR
I spent all afternoon thinking it was Stuart Storey until he was name checked - never been able to tell them two apart.
Having watched the tennis most the afternoon I managed to skip through the BBC coverage in little more than an hour thanks to all their cutaways - with an early one seeing them miss the Royal Salute. It's interesting actually that the instant reviews Twitter provides might finally begin to end the BBC's dominance of such occassions as for as long as I can remember pretty much any time the BBC and ITV have shown the same event I've found the ITV coverage much better and although in the end they served the tennis well today having ITV1 and ITV4 showing it had the boat pageant been on ITV1 I think it would have done rather well for them off the back of the Royal Wedding last year.
P.S. I'm guessing there hasn't been any special idents anywhere for the occasion, other than France2?
It's quite notable that many of the BBC's location presenters are just popping up randomly rather than being introduced or even Astoned. Has the commentator even been introduced or mentioned by name yet?
I spent all afternoon thinking it was Stuart Storey until he was name checked - never been able to tell them two apart.
Having watched the tennis most the afternoon I managed to skip through the BBC coverage in little more than an hour thanks to all their cutaways - with an early one seeing them miss the Royal Salute. It's interesting actually that the instant reviews Twitter provides might finally begin to end the BBC's dominance of such occassions as for as long as I can remember pretty much any time the BBC and ITV have shown the same event I've found the ITV coverage much better and although in the end they served the tennis well today having ITV1 and ITV4 showing it had the boat pageant been on ITV1 I think it would have done rather well for them off the back of the Royal Wedding last year.
P.S. I'm guessing there hasn't been any special idents anywhere for the occasion, other than France2?
Last edited by Brekkie on 3 June 2012 7:06pm
MA
Huw Edwards seems to have the series presenter role. He introduced the coverage today and will introduce the concert tomorrow. He also introduced Prince Charles' Home Video Howlers on Friday night and may introduce Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty's Service later today too. I suppose it is similar to Jeremy Vine's role on Panorama.
I feel that it was generally the correct programme for BBC One but probably not the right programme to be shown on the BBC News Channel. If it had been a BBC News production then I would be saying the opposite, something is always going to jar when a general entertainment channel broadcasts the same thing as a news channel.
Maybe the BBC News Channel should have used the red button feed and only simulcast the commentary with none of the studio or entertainment bits. It wouldn't have cost any more and would have provided two different types of coverage.
The commentator was very poor.
Anyone who starts off by introducing Her Royal Highness The Queen shouldn't be doing the job
Marcus
Founding member
Been dipping in and out of the coverage on the BBC today. I never understood the point of having Huw at Buckingham Palace, or at all if I'm honest. We saw him for a bit at the start and a bit at the end and that was it, kind of seemed a bit pointless.
Huw Edwards seems to have the series presenter role. He introduced the coverage today and will introduce the concert tomorrow. He also introduced Prince Charles' Home Video Howlers on Friday night and may introduce Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty's Service later today too. I suppose it is similar to Jeremy Vine's role on Panorama.
Only other irritants were naturally Fearne Cotton & Tess Daily, both with ego's bigger than Tower Bridge and not really suitable presenters for this type of occasion. Also didn't really understand why they thought many people would be interested in people painting on the Millennium Bridge, though I suppose it filled some air time.
I feel that it was generally the correct programme for BBC One but probably not the right programme to be shown on the BBC News Channel. If it had been a BBC News production then I would be saying the opposite, something is always going to jar when a general entertainment channel broadcasts the same thing as a news channel.
Maybe the BBC News Channel should have used the red button feed and only simulcast the commentary with none of the studio or entertainment bits. It wouldn't have cost any more and would have provided two different types of coverage.
The commentator was very poor.
Anyone who starts off by introducing Her Royal Highness The Queen shouldn't be doing the job
AC
Who was that by the way? I think I missed the discussion of that.
Anyone who starts off by introducing
Her Royal Highness The Queen
shouldn't be doing the job
Who was that by the way? I think I missed the discussion of that.
GE
Who was that by the way? I think I missed the discussion of that.
Paul Dickenson, a veteran BBC athletics commentator, who has also covered events such as the Lord Mayor's Show.
Anyone who starts off by introducing
Her Royal Highness The Queen
shouldn't be doing the job
Who was that by the way? I think I missed the discussion of that.
Paul Dickenson, a veteran BBC athletics commentator, who has also covered events such as the Lord Mayor's Show.
WI
william
Founding member
My thoughts (having stuck with BBC for most of the afternoon, then switched to Sky at around 5pm out of frustration. Will review remainder of BBC coverage later):
BBC:
- Some lovely camera angles, as you'd hope (and it didn't seem - at the start of the day anyway - that they really missed anything - including some nicely rehearsed but complex set piece stuff like the 'War Horse' bit on the roof of the National Theatre.)
- The BBC used no astons at all the entire afternoon - why? There really weren't *any* unexpected presenters or guests for them to identify. The full screen 'schedule' put up during Huw's intro looked like a decent colour scheme that would have worked perfectly well...
- At one point, in contrast to those graphics (and the 3D Thames) we suddenly saw a rather dodgy brown map with a flashing crown.
- Anneka Rice on the Millennium Bridge (o/s Tate Modern) seems like it *ought* to have worked on paper, so I don't blame them for trying it (or using her or John Sargeant). Maybe the fact that the paintings were 'questionable' and being ruined by the weather actually made rather good telly...
- There should have been someone else in Huw's studio for him to talk to briefly (was there at the end?) rather than him being entirely alone.
- I thought the Tower Bridge studio was slightly too "gaudy", Buckingham Palace one about right.
- Too many unnecessary shots of Matt and Sophie - plenty of instances where if we needed to here from them they could have just talked over the pictures.
- Too much talking generally (as usual).
- Quite a few people have remarked on Sophie's false laughter coming out of the Horrible Histories thing (which I though really worked given the crowd were enjoying
it).
- At times I rather found myself thinking Huw & Clare Balding were the only two safe pairs of hands in the presenting team.
Sky:
- Actually rather liked Eamonn's irreverence/honesty about the conditions, given how exposed their position was. Pity (as often happens in big events on rolling news channels) when the three of them did the handover to Dermot they never actually said goodbye beforehand.
- Camera angles for the bits I watched seemed weaker (though I was watching more at the end than the beginning) that the BBC's, though clearly certain bits were pooled.
- They were getting extremely good value from Alistair Bruce, as usual.
Overall - I did wonder if the 'One Show' style tone the BBC went for was a deliberate (some might say desperate) response for the pasting they got after the Royal Wedding - when everyone praised Phillip Schofield and Julie Etchingham and said the BBC was too dull. It's a shame we'll never find out what it would have been like if the two of them had done it really...
BBC:
- Some lovely camera angles, as you'd hope (and it didn't seem - at the start of the day anyway - that they really missed anything - including some nicely rehearsed but complex set piece stuff like the 'War Horse' bit on the roof of the National Theatre.)
- The BBC used no astons at all the entire afternoon - why? There really weren't *any* unexpected presenters or guests for them to identify. The full screen 'schedule' put up during Huw's intro looked like a decent colour scheme that would have worked perfectly well...
- At one point, in contrast to those graphics (and the 3D Thames) we suddenly saw a rather dodgy brown map with a flashing crown.
- Anneka Rice on the Millennium Bridge (o/s Tate Modern) seems like it *ought* to have worked on paper, so I don't blame them for trying it (or using her or John Sargeant). Maybe the fact that the paintings were 'questionable' and being ruined by the weather actually made rather good telly...
- There should have been someone else in Huw's studio for him to talk to briefly (was there at the end?) rather than him being entirely alone.
- I thought the Tower Bridge studio was slightly too "gaudy", Buckingham Palace one about right.
- Too many unnecessary shots of Matt and Sophie - plenty of instances where if we needed to here from them they could have just talked over the pictures.
- Too much talking generally (as usual).
- Quite a few people have remarked on Sophie's false laughter coming out of the Horrible Histories thing (which I though really worked given the crowd were enjoying
it).
- At times I rather found myself thinking Huw & Clare Balding were the only two safe pairs of hands in the presenting team.
Sky:
- Actually rather liked Eamonn's irreverence/honesty about the conditions, given how exposed their position was. Pity (as often happens in big events on rolling news channels) when the three of them did the handover to Dermot they never actually said goodbye beforehand.
- Camera angles for the bits I watched seemed weaker (though I was watching more at the end than the beginning) that the BBC's, though clearly certain bits were pooled.
- They were getting extremely good value from Alistair Bruce, as usual.
Overall - I did wonder if the 'One Show' style tone the BBC went for was a deliberate (some might say desperate) response for the pasting they got after the Royal Wedding - when everyone praised Phillip Schofield and Julie Etchingham and said the BBC was too dull. It's a shame we'll never find out what it would have been like if the two of them had done it really...