BBC One Cock Up 8pm 1/5/2006

But the result was also a lot less slick, Simon, no?

Television was a lot less slicker generally, no-one's pretending it wasn't. But if things did go wrong, someone would notice and act there and then.

Computers are literal beings - they only do exactly what they are programmed to do, automation errors in pres are well-documented.

Yes, I must admit, breakdowns are generally not very well handled these days. The results of the manual intervention required in such circumstances can make for interesting viewing though!

In place of what I think would/should have been a slide of some sort of slide, this Capoeira still before the trails preceding the current film:

http://www.duke1401.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bbcone-capoeira-defaultstill.jpg

I assume this is the equivalent of BBC TWO's Bounce first frame still.