The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

Better off calling it can of worms because thats what its opened - no one will be satisfied. The whole point of changing the name was to appease the folk of Lincolnshire and North Norfolk who claim not to live in the north. Ironic then that if you point - or look North you end up looking over the geographical region for the news. You can't look or point east as thats just a few oil rigs and the north sea If you are in the east riding you look south.
When all of this was first muted I understand that they tried focus groups but they could not come up with anything and the Hull management dithered. Suggestions of 'Look' & 'Look here' were muted - in jest I would hope, and then we would 'let the people decide'

Will this make a difference to the standard of the news content? Proberbly not, they have spent money putting broadcast journalists into Radio Lincolnshire which the BBC management in Hull has just got its paws on - not that theres any room for them - and its why Ms Fospero was not replaced, so expect lots more Lincolnshire stories.

The list of votes coming said 'The Peter Levy Show' more than anything else. They were discounted because there was 'flood voting' from just a few dozen phones. Funny how other numbers who called repetitively with the same name were allowed to keep all their votes though!

Funny also how Alf's oh-so-accurate guess had the whole office in stitches when I pointed them to his post. And how it was never on any of the shortlists even when they were fifty names long.

Just for the record, they only started this phone vote because they couldn't fill the show... But then I imagine you could all guess that? The management types have said that changing the name will improve the viewing figures?!?

Exactly, Steve! What a farce!

It has to do with all the lime green & tangerine paint on the walls - it addles their brains

Interesting!

You wouldn't be giving us a hint as to the new colours for the BBC One re-launch, would you?

No sadly not.
Its the colour of the 2nd floor at BBC Hull Lincolnshire Yorkshire or whatever they are calling it this week. As the lift doors fly open you are stunned into silence by the walls of vomit lime green. The whole place was designed as "A space that would not to look like what the public expect from the BBC" -I'm paraphrasing there but I'm sure that is how it was explained & It certainly is that. The place is all wavey corridors and corrugated iron partitions & all the supporting pillars are covered in bright yellow and orange plastic protrusions! Is it the BBC on acid or a bad day at the IKEA. I'm not sure, its incredibly impractical too. Someone forgot to build a meeting room so they have to use the staff recreation area which is full of pinball machines and techy paraphanalia.
Radio Bumbleside in shoved in the corner on the ground floor in the public space there is a large window through which the chavs can peer through to see the studio. Thats after tripping over the costa coffee tea bar. Mysteriously there is a large floor to ceiling curtain which presumably is pulled across for studio privacy... the mind boggles. One final ironic note the building itself is one of the tallest in Hull & it blocks the Belmont tv signal to the north or a large part of the city - now who thought of that.

Which floor is the Look North Studio (Hull) on? I always thought it was on one of the higher levels.

There's a nicely presented picture of the decor here... http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/radiohumberside/
Makes it look quite respetable however the swirly carpet is far worse than it looks

believe the studio is on the third floor - with newsroom below on 2nd

The newsroom is on the second as I've had to go up the stairs at the back - the nice new lift won't take more than four people before it starts getting exited and making pinging noises. If the tangerine or lime green walls don't get you the swirly carpet will. The Beeb are quite proud of the place if you ask them I'm sure they would give you a guided tour - just remember one of those little bags you get on airplanes - just in case

lol. What do you work as there?

I doubt the BUILDING would be what would make me hurl......more likely just about everything and everyone else....oh dear.

The Hull building sounds - and looks from the picture - a bit like the TV equivalent of one of those new-fangled city academies. Odd-shaped modern buildings which seem to turn out REALLY bad results. Sadly the analogy does not extend to any private money being involved. It's us viewers paying for this tripe (and those expensive-looking chairs in the lobby), which is of course the real scandal. I have seen more journalistic professionalism and editorial judgement on student TV. Peter interviewing that young chior boy tonight was pure Alan Partridge and pure tedium ....

And dont forget, it's make or break time for East Yorkshire's caravan industry ( a genuine - and meaningless - top-line selected at random from tonight's hideousness parade).

ps how many outside-of-the-region Down The Line interviews with irrelevant guests can one 25min local news show have - tonight's 3 (poss 4?) DTLs included Brian Turner talking about chips and er the editor of Caravans Weekly..could it maybe be that these are often cheap shoddy fillers that pad out the bits between the weak tape items and the er weather (which even THEY are admitting they see as a highlight by placing it in the middle of the show)?

Oh the shame of having to work there in any programme-making capacity.....*shudders at the mere thought*