So BBC One just did something a little different, at some random site four presenters did a live experiment which sort of looked like the Honda Cog advert. Partially failed but got there in the end with the 'big bang'.
The show went direct from The One Show (no closing) and then ended with a trail endboard with the live announcer and straight to EastEnders.
It had been advertised all week as "Before EastEnders", and though it technically was it was all done by 7.29pm. Surely would have been better squeezed in after EastEnders, or given 5 minutes on Saturday night or something.
And as good as it may be to do something different, my main thought watching it was what a waste of money, rather than must watch that show.
From the trails I was expecting an experiment, not a 'Pythagoras Switch'*/ Honda Cog Advert type of thing. Plus the people involved were far too excited, I hope the series is a lot better
And as good as it may be to do something different, my main thought watching it was what a waste of money, rather than must watch that show.
It's part of an BBC Learning (not Open University as I had previously thought) drive, so it wasn't such a waste as I'm sure parts will be replicated over the country (as I think I remember reading that they were touring this project).
Don't know if anyone noticed that the sound used in the Rubens' tube section (1:20 on the video) was the BBC One three-note jingle - a nice touch.
I think the Big Bang! was produced by the marketing bit of the BBC (or outsourced to Red Bee Media?) rather than the production bit - as it was an extended trail rather than actually a part of the programme.
It was a nice idea I guess.
Wasn't sure about some of it though - it didn't feel like a trail, it didn't feel like a programme. I didn't really know what or who I was watching and why - but I did keep watching until the end board so I guess it worked in that respect. Hope it's not typical of the programme though.
(Bits of it looked a bit cheap - particularly the LIVE text and the boxed insets (which must have looked ridiculous in 4:3 centre cut and not that nice in 14:9 letterbox?))
Thank you for that completely unprovoked superfluous detail. But it remains that any 'Rube Goldberg machine' is rendered a bit sh*t by the fall-back 'strike with piece of wood' stage.
Slightly unfortunate that a question from a viewer mentioned on Bang Goes The Theory just now (concerning whether you stay drier if you walk or run through rain) had been the subject of a feature on the One Show which preceded it.