BBC Three announcer tonight...

:-(

A former member 12 September 2003 2:44am

catlitter posted:

Good lord.!!!...what about all those luverrrrrly estuary accents we are treated to now ???... so pleasing to the ear..........

and the 'any regional accent will do as long as its scottish' requirement that all channels seem to be desperate to meet?

Interesting that in the search for regional 'flavour' you never hear a scouser or a brummie or someone with a dorset accent announcing ....!

You won't hear many Welsh accents outside of Wales on national television.

Even Welsh v/o artists have an RP accent. I shouldn't grumble, I've been cursed with one too.

SP

Spencer 12 September 2003 10:38am

Interestingly the 'BBC Free' announcer now seems to be calling it 'BBC Three'. Someone must have told him!

MD

Mr D'Arcy 12 September 2003 3:51pm

I love the BBC Three idents but the CA's are bloody awful. It does make me shudder when he says BBC FREE.

I hang my head in shame and have to say the guys at ITV2 do a much better job.

:-(

A former member 12 September 2003 4:24pm

TVF posted:

I love the BBC Three idents but the CA's are bloody awful. It does make me shudder when he says BBC FREE.

I hang my head in shame and have to say the guys at ITV2 do a much better job.

That's because more often than not now the ITV1 guys and gals will be voicing continuity on ITV2.

BT

Baroness Trumpington 12 September 2003 7:59pm

A Major Setup posted:

I would, however, have thought that one of the basic skills of being a 'BBC Announcer' was that the person would at least be able to pronounce 'BBC THREE' as just that, and not 'BBC FREE'. .... And the worst thing of all is when people add the word 'like' onto the end of every sentence.

Absolutely right about the BBC FREE - disgraceful!

As for "like", I don't know which is worse - the Like at the end of the sentence, or the "mid flow" one, as in: "so he hit me, and I'm like oi wot you doing?"

What about the people who are incessantly adding "Do you kow what I mean?" to the end of their statements? It, like, drives me mad. D'you know what I mean?

DA

Dan Founding member 12 September 2003 8:50pm

So I turned round and said, "Basically, at the end of the day, right, you're, like, dead right there. Innit.".

MN

MarkNewby 12 September 2003 10:16pm

"CUMMIN UP TONITE ON BBC FREE, WE'VE GOT BERN IT. NOW THO IT'S LICKWID NOOS."

Grr that man annoys me - the only thing he's ever said which made me chuck was when he called 24 "The Jack Bauer Power Hour"

(September 2003)