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He went out there and recorded a series of links which they showed in the second series; but the rest of his links is done from a set in the UK made up of a back projection screen, some parcans and a couple of lengths of trussing.

I suppose it would be a fair bet that the cameras and other equipment in Argentina is used by all broadcasters when they come to shoot their versions.



Yes, I also heard that the IPPs are gone for both Who and Norton and will not return.

Oooh its nice being in the know occasionally.

The Aussie version of Wipeout was passed off as HD, but whether it was true HD or not I don't know.

Don't think it has ever been CSO. One series has been shot in the UK with back-projection, another series has had him on-location in Argentina, but with the same kind of "frame" around the view.

Yes, Hammond makes it quite explicit that he isn't in Argentina and frequently refers to the fact he's in London. As mentioned, he did record a series of inserts from Argentina which were shown during the second series, but he did the celebrity specials at Christmas "from" Argentina, although seemingly to emphasise his role they kept exactly the same set and he was miles away from the action.

Just changing the subject here, as I didn't feel this was worthy of a new thread, but the last time I watched Crimewatch they said they were back on Monday 26 April. Now it's on Wednesday with a three part drama on Sunday - Tuesday instead. Does anyone know if this was pulled due to Monday being the 11th anniversary of Jill Dando's murder, because I realised the date as soon as they said it.

No disrespect to Jill, but that's not a date I had committed to memory.

Can hardly believe its been 11 years.

I can't see them moving Crimewatch because it happens to fall on the aniversery of Jill Dando's death. Its not like it could be considered bad taste to show it on that day. If it was an entertainment show, maybe.

In other news, a person makes a video which she claims shows The One Show provoking a swan. Despite the fact that the video consists mainly of her speaking to camera and doesn't show anything that wasn't shown on The One Show itself. The Sun and Daily Mail have obviously run this as a story. Here is the video...
http://www.youtube.com?v=NfGJyCx6U_8

Here is The One Show report...
http://bbc.co.uk/i/s7tpm/?t=8m26s (point of interest: this episode has the wrong subtitles on IPlayer, they were fine when it was broadcast on BBC One).

The Celebrity Special where Hammond actually was in Argentina wasn't used that well. They gave him the same studio, albeit outside, and the only links were when you could see more of the outside beyond the border and when Hammond would link to Amanda, and you could see his rig above her.

It's called being ironic.

Problem with the start of The One Show just then. There was a really long ident (not sure if it had a voice over as I turned over part way through it) and then The One Show titles appeared but were frozen. It then cut to the studio with the presenters saying they didn't know what happened.

What did the nations do?

Interesting junction into The One Show - pres played out a clean ident, then the One Show's titles failed to play (they were still for a couple of seconds).

Eh?