Did I The Announcer Really Say That?

No, were my eyes deceiving me or was he doing the news on Meridian last night?

And well done to the person who put on the trail for "Ann Summers Uncovered" on Meridian last night between Tarrant on TV which advertised it coming up at 11.30 when it actually wasn't.

Whats wrong with that?

No, they weren't, Asa, that's how I knew he wasn't on network last night!


Just to take the first three or four words, the construction should either be "There is a headache" or "There are headaches".

It gets worse from that point onwards.

I wasn't really listening (I'd left the room) but I'd heard this too...

Unless the family who own the doctor surgery in the show are called the "Sweet" family, and therefore it is the "Sweet Practice" ?

I didn't hear it, but could the CA have been making a joke about this being the 'successor' to Peak Practice?

What a generous spirit you have, sir. You may have hit upon a truth. ITV1 continuity announcers are ahead of their time. We'll catch up eventually.

1) See Nick's post, above - he talks a lot of sense, you know.

2) "THOSE Airline staff" - announcerese; who ever speaks like that in real life?

3) "FIND OUT" - sloppy scripting; obviously you can find out something in every programme, but saying so is lazy and wastes the opportunity to say something more interesting in the time available.

4) It was Friday morning so she should have said "tonight at 8:30" - why make it sound further in the future and therefore less relevant?

5) Branding. Which channel's it on?!

In the absense of anything more interesting to say, it should at least have been "Headaches for the Airline staff - tonight, 8:30, here on ITV1".

And there ends today's scripting masterclass

Pah!

"Are Dan an expert? Have a see of his posting...earlier"

Well, Dan. Are I gotting the hang of that?

Plus the fact that Airline was totally irrelevant in that junction and had nothing to do with the next programme, preceeding programme, preceeding trailers or anything.

It seems some of this network lot, besides Trish, Glen and Scottish Paul, need a good kick up the behind after all they are paid to come up with interesting announcements, 7 seconds should be ample time to say something fairly good.

I wonder if Neil Didsbury from YTV had taken the network job, would he suddenly have become rubbish the minute he arrived in London?

You're so right Nick, Thompsett with a 'p' and yes I did see him reading the news, rather well I thought on Meridian. So it couldn't have been Glen making such an awful gaff in Continuity.
I think you'll find the 'No wet Wonderfoam' ad is at least three years old and selling well, hence it's still running!!

Tutt Tutt....wasn't Glen or Trish...my favorites.
Where have those funny little quips gone, not very prevalent in the current ITV1 full time team.

If only there were ongoing repeat fees for that sort of thing.

Mr Thompsett would then be able to afford a tad more than 50p for a drink!