It was always viewed with some suspicion that Jim'll Fix It never broadcast that all-important address to write to if you wanted Jim to fix it for you.
In your house perhaps. "BBC Television Centre, London" was, and still is, quite sufficient to get your letter there.
Unless you were writing to ask for a fix of some initiative.
It was always viewed with some suspicion that Jim'll Fix It never broadcast that all-important address to write to if you wanted Jim to fix it for you.
In your house perhaps. "BBC Television Centre, London" was, and still is, quite sufficient to get your letter there.
Unless you were writing to ask for a fix of some initiative.
OK, so perhaps what I meant to say was "it WOULD BE viewed with suspicion by the media-savvy audience of 2007". But that I suppose reflects how much more we trusted broadcasters when Jim'll Fix It was running.
Even now, how many of us stop to think about whether the person being announced as a competition winner actually exists, regardless of who is running the competition? There is still a lot of blind trust being invested in our broadcasters, but events of the last few months have certainly made us think. Will the latest revelations will have an impact on donations to Comic Relief and Children In Need? That we will have to see.
Is there any consideration being given to having phone in quizzes on radio with no prizes - just playing for the sheer fun of it? After all, 'popmaster' years ago had the offer of an inflatable armchair - the prizes probably weren't why most people phoned in (unless they were after a piece of station memorabelia) Or is the issue still down to people phoning in when phone lines were closed the big issue here?
What a ridiculous state of affairs when Car Park Catchphrase or a football prediction game on the website can't be run. Next thing you'll know programmes will have to have the time and date the footage was filmed stamped on them, the entire rushes will be available at the press of the red button and after evey edit ot change of camera angle a man will appear in the corner of the screen explaining what just happened. CGI will be banned and all drama will have a continious warning graphic explaining this isn't reality.
Is TV trying to kill itself off and let the internet take over?
Does anyone know when the BBC will lift the ban? Elaine Paige said she was hoping to run her competition again in the autumn. So I would have thought October time?
I can't see why they can't reopen competitions and just use an 0800 number so it doesn't cost anything. I know it would mean the BBC wouldn't get any money out of it, but at least they'd be able to do phoneins.
