The NEW Central West and BBC Midlands thread

Today's Other side of, for the benefit of the Tiswas Online team, at 12 noon, is Lenny Henry, talking to Doolan on WM.

Keithy Boy Middleton in for Chinnie tween 1 & 4 too!

a few problems with the halloween OB this evening - david blamed it on "old equipment"

midlands today - halloween OB

there is also a midlands version of the "this is what we do" trail running - included here for your viewing pleasure

this is what we do - bbc midlands

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Strange that that promo uses the old music at the end, even though it hasn't been used for two years. I first saw the East Midlands version of this, and as they still use that music I didn't think it was strange. Considering that more regions don't use the original corporate theme than do, it seems wierd that they're using it everywhere.

I have to say, as fab as the elements are such as david and shefalli mincing, I am unimpressed with it as a whole. Compared to the other trails it doesn't seem to convey that sense of wonder

I don't know if this also applies in the Midlands, but regional trailers actually made by the region, and not a national campaign rolled out regionally seem to be few and far between thesedays

BBC Londons one uses the old music too, despite it never being used at all since Newsroom South East was disbanded.

most regional trailers seem to be made by bbc english regions creative based in bham nowerdays iirc. although i dont think this trail was made by them - london i believe.

Catch it while you can on the WM Listen Again.

Keith Beech(Managing Editor of BBC WM) was taking calls from listeners about the station, on the middle hour of the Doolan show.

Anyone in Lye, near Stourbridge, will find Mollie opening the the Cats Protection League shop there tomorrow(Saturday) around 1 or 2pm.

(I'd go myself, but it's 3 buses from where I live, Bloxwich to Walsall, Walsall to Dudley, Dudley to Lye, plus I think the 'sad trekkies' got plans for me this weekend!)

And has since been replaced with the current London theme.

The "This is What We Do" trail is an interesting hybrid trail.

There is core footage of it common to all English regions - which looks to have been mainly shot at the Mailbox (which is BBC English Regions HQ) - with each region dropping in their own "regional colour" shots (i.e. Kim Riley getting out of a sat truck for the Norwich variant)

However the final gallery shot is, if I'm not mistaken, the BBC Mailbox gallery in all of the variations, and a few other shots are from there.

Not sure if each region has been given a kit of parts to version their own, or if each region had to file a few sequences to be edited by a common production team making all of the various versions. My gut feeling is that it may be the latter - given that the music is wrong...

tis indeed the midlands today gallery. i think a team went around to film the bits from the regions (rather than being filmed by local teams), but i am willing to be corrected on that.

the first gallery shot is not the mailbox- the bit where it scrolls down the screens is mailbox, The man going "wheres the sat van coming from" is mailbox the "cue and cut" bit is mail box. has every other region got this