BBC Shop

recently on holiday in New York i visited the NBC Experience Store at Rockerfeller Plaza. and i really liked the idea they had.

They sold merchandise of almost every NBC programme, but they also had interactive features.

Some where:
Al Roker's (The Weather Forcaster on NBC Today) Weather Challenge
Conan O'Brien's Wild Desk Ride
Be A Star with Jay Leno
and the NBC Photo Shoot.

With the BBC re-doing Broadcasting House, and IIRC, they are bulding a new BBC Shop in the ground floor area, wouldnt it be a good idea for the BBC to make their shows merchandise available to the public?
and of course, make interactive features, such as the BBC News On Tour style news presenting, preseting on Newsround, CBBC, and interview with some person, like Jonathon Ross, or (my personal favourite) Peter Snow's Election Night Challenge, which is basiclly doing the swingomiter ect.

what does anyone else think? just a though i had

They already do at the BBC Shops in Central London, do they not?

yea they do, but they dont really do as many of their programes. They sell DVD's books, and stuff, but what i more so mean is things like mugs from say Breakfast, or collectable items, like badges ect.
i really should have made that clearer

The BBC used to have "The BBC Experience" in addition to the Broadcasting House BBC Shop - but I think they closed it a few years ago... It was similar in some ways to the NBC operation.

There is a BBC Shop in Belfast - 21 Arthur Street, just off Cornmarket.

Apparently the Breakfast mugs are limited edition and only ten or so were made. According to the programme, who I emailed, as soon as the programme is over, the mugs are locked away in a special cupboard so chances of buying collectables like the Breakfast mug look next to none.

Yes, I remember going to that. It was in the basement of Broadcasting House, and you could play around with Bodger and Badger, present the weather, look at the history of the BBC etc.

I take it the rooms where the Experience was in are all now offices/studios/storage rooms?

well thats the point im making, they could start to make them to sell in the shop, and only that one shop. cos what i think a lot of people would get them.

like for example, i bought the NBC Today show mug, the excat one that Katie and Matt have. and like many people do buy them. whats the harm!

I do agree with you. I'd definitely buy a BBC Breakfast Mug if they were available (hence why I emailed them asking if there was any chance of purchasing one).

I assumed they had them all over the country, surely the belfast shop isn't unique?

I've only ever come across the one in Belfast and the one at TV Centre in the same room where they put audiences who are waiting to go into the studio.

Although last time I was at the Museum of Film & TV in Bradford there's a big automated thing there whereby you can read the news against a bluescreen and then it shows the whole thing back to you, dancers ident and all.

you will be pleased to hear that the bbc midlands shop at the mailbox (part of bbc english regions, unlike the london shop who are part of worldwide) sell midlands today mugs, pens, bbc wm key rings, wallets, clocks, archers oven gloves, mugs etc etc, together with bbc midlands/birmingham related exhibitions (for example, the chance to have a go at doing the midlands today weather) in the open space.