BB
Yes, speaking of damned frog, who the hell bought the single by "Pondlife" (aka Wes Butters, Daryl Denham and co.)?
It's the most tuneless piece of crap I have heard in a long time and comes with a cheap, tacky and nasty video.
And yes, I can tell you now (before they announce it on R1/CBBC) that the Crazy Frog will now have made it 3 weeks at the top. Who the hell continues to buy this sh!t ?!
Although I can think we can thank our lucky stars that Pondlife only got in at #11. I personally think it deserved to be much lower in the chart - around 37 would be good, together with the other frog single.
marksi posted:
Because once a ringtone made it to number one people realised it was no longer worth caring about.
Or something.
Or something.
Yes, speaking of damned frog, who the hell bought the single by "Pondlife" (aka Wes Butters, Daryl Denham and co.)?
It's the most tuneless piece of crap I have heard in a long time and comes with a cheap, tacky and nasty video.
And yes, I can tell you now (before they announce it on R1/CBBC) that the Crazy Frog will now have made it 3 weeks at the top. Who the hell continues to buy this sh!t ?!
Although I can think we can thank our lucky stars that Pondlife only got in at #11. I personally think it deserved to be much lower in the chart - around 37 would be good, together with the other frog single.
They wouldn't want to have two kinds of the same programme on 
TV
Yes, speaking of damned frog, who the hell bought the single by "Pondlife" (aka Wes Butters, Daryl Denham and co.)?
My mother, I'm sorry to say.
There's me, almost 32 and into Syd Dale, Johnny Pearson etc. and there she is at 56, buying all the chart singles as they come out. Parents eh?
BBC TV Centre posted:
marksi posted:
Because once a ringtone made it to number one people realised it was no longer worth caring about.
Or something.
Or something.
Yes, speaking of damned frog, who the hell bought the single by "Pondlife" (aka Wes Butters, Daryl Denham and co.)?
My mother, I'm sorry to say.
There's me, almost 32 and into Syd Dale, Johnny Pearson etc. and there she is at 56, buying all the chart singles as they come out. Parents eh?
DE
It's a shame: the CBBC Top40 was one of the flagship shows on the CBBC Channel from launch. It used to come from the same studio that the live studio links came from, but a pre-recorded sequence for a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon which the Playout area dealt with, allowed the studio to set up and rehearse. I liked the fact they had different, distinctive lighting and made good use of the set. And they 'linked up' with Radio 1 for the announcement of the Number 1 single. (I always suspected that that bit was pre-recorded though!)
It's perhaps indicative of the channel's ratings if a live, distinctive programme that other children's channels wouldn't bother with is being dumped in favour of a repeat of tosh like Hollywood Seven...
It's perhaps indicative of the channel's ratings if a live, distinctive programme that other children's channels wouldn't bother with is being dumped in favour of a repeat of tosh like Hollywood Seven...
MA
And I'm sure the playout directors won't be too annoyed to see the end of all those bloody backtiming sums.
deejay posted:
It's a shame: the CBBC Top40 was one of the flagship shows on the CBBC Channel from launch. It used to come from the same studio that the live studio links came from, but a pre-recorded sequence for a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon which the Playout area dealt with, allowed the studio to set up and rehearse. I liked the fact they had different, distinctive lighting and made good use of the set. And they 'linked up' with Radio 1 for the announcement of the Number 1 single. (I always suspected that that bit was pre-recorded though!)
It's perhaps indicative of the channel's ratings if a live, distinctive programme that other children's channels wouldn't bother with is being dumped in favour of a repeat of tosh like Hollywood Seven...
It's perhaps indicative of the channel's ratings if a live, distinctive programme that other children's channels wouldn't bother with is being dumped in favour of a repeat of tosh like Hollywood Seven...
And I'm sure the playout directors won't be too annoyed to see the end of all those bloody backtiming sums.
DE
And I'm sure the playout directors won't be too annoyed to see the end of all those bloody backtiming sums.
Well - yes, there was always that! But by far the worse thing was to have to ask the Top 40 production team to underrun to compensate for the huge breakdown you'd had in the time you were running the network... Only had to do that once, but they weren't too pleased!
marksi posted:
deejay posted:
It's a shame: the CBBC Top40 was one of the flagship shows on the CBBC Channel from launch. It used to come from the same studio that the live studio links came from, but a pre-recorded sequence for a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon which the Playout area dealt with, allowed the studio to set up and rehearse. I liked the fact they had different, distinctive lighting and made good use of the set. And they 'linked up' with Radio 1 for the announcement of the Number 1 single. (I always suspected that that bit was pre-recorded though!)
It's perhaps indicative of the channel's ratings if a live, distinctive programme that other children's channels wouldn't bother with is being dumped in favour of a repeat of tosh like Hollywood Seven...
It's perhaps indicative of the channel's ratings if a live, distinctive programme that other children's channels wouldn't bother with is being dumped in favour of a repeat of tosh like Hollywood Seven...
And I'm sure the playout directors won't be too annoyed to see the end of all those bloody backtiming sums.
Well - yes, there was always that! But by far the worse thing was to have to ask the Top 40 production team to underrun to compensate for the huge breakdown you'd had in the time you were running the network... Only had to do that once, but they weren't too pleased!