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Fame Academy breakdown

(August 2003)

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A former member
Surprised no-one's mentioned this yet. Breakdown slide at the start of Fame Academy on Three


The main reason for this thread is now obsolete
KA
Katherine Founding member
Larry Scutta posted:
Surprised no-one's mentioned this yet. Breakdown slide at the start of Fame Academy on Three
(Matt: 27 minutes..... very slow, must be the weather!)

The main reason for this thread is just to get everyone to phone
09011 21 01 06 (she's a friend of mine)

Yeah, she was the best one out of the six!! Hope her tonsils get better soon!!
BR
Brekkie
No one watches the BBC1 show, so I doubt anyone would notice the problems on BBC3!
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Brekkie Boy posted:
No one watches the BBC1 show, so I doubt anyone would notice the problems on BBC3!


That's true
EH
Ed Hammond
While we're on the subject of breakdowns, there was one on BBC1 last night at about 1.45 in the morning. A documentary about asylum was playing out mistakenly - for a good five or ten minutes or so - and then it suddenly went off air halfway through, was replaced by an apology caption for about five minutes, and then the correct programme ("In Search of Shakespeare" with signing) came on. No announcement or anything though.

I was only up because I couldn't get to sleep because of this bloody weather!
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A former member
It's Bargain Hunt on Sign Zone tonight! Very Happy

(Which reminds me, how the hell can they screw up the showing of Bargain Hunt...Can't they just show the episode from last Thursday?! e.g last Thursday was Rugby Playes but tonight is the Caribean people!
AN
Andrew Founding member
I believe there was a breakdown during today's Quincy wasn't there?
WH
Whataday Founding member
Andrew posted:
I believe there was a breakdown during today's Quincy wasn't there?


Yes, for a few moments, ITV was on acid. Lots of pretty colours flashed on the screen.
AN
andyrew Founding member
Larry Scutta posted:
Surprised no-one's mentioned this yet. Breakdown slide at the start of Fame Academy on Three
(Matt: 27 minutes..... very slow, must be the weather!)


Oh Matt, was that you? Shocked
AS
Asa Admin
Yeah caught that - as soon as Patrick said "turn over to BBC Three", I (like the tens of other viewers who did) turned over to be presented by the start of the ident (wonderful timing) and no anno at all under I assume, the end of the ident. Screen goes black, shocked breakdown blob caption appears and silence...and more silence before Claudia turned up and apologised.

Now I have absolutely no idea of controlling a channel when it comes to live output but it was quite poor, especially for a show doing poorly on BBC One, let alone BBC Three. Is there just one person in charge? Is it a case of being understaffed or just asleep?
OH
ohwhatanight Founding member
Whataday posted:
Andrew posted:
I believe there was a breakdown during today's Quincy wasn't there?


Yes, for a few moments, ITV was on acid. Lots of pretty colours flashed on the screen.


In the olden days of regional television things like this would surely never have happened?

Did it onlt affect HTV Wales or were other regions affected aswell?
SP
sparkiestu
I expect Fame Academy will end up being at the top end of the BBC 3 Viewing Figues, it did well last year.

A slow start can always be expected with these kinda shows. FA did pretty poorly at the beginning but by the end was doing really well.

Stu

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