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Gold to show final Monty Python stage performance live

(June 2014)

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Charlie Wells Moderator
Baring in mind the interval I'm slightly surprised that Gold didn't show the first act with a 5 minute delay or similar to allow for swearing to be properly censored. As per Markymark there were also a few audio glitches at the cinema where I was watching it. I got caught out by the 'pre-show' starting at exactly 7pm, as I assumed that time would be filled with the usual cinema adverts so missed the first 10 minutes.

I have to admit I didn't recognise Mike Myers during the Blackmail sketch. I did enjoy the appearance from Brian Cox and Stephen Hawking. Perhaps unsurprisingly I note that the Daily Mail have made no mention of the Dead Parrot sketch. Razz
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nwtv2003
The overnight's show that Python averaged at 597,000 viewers, around a 2.9% audience share, apparently it's a reccord for Gold.

29 days later

DV
dvboy
No surprises...
http://tv.uk.msn.com/news/ofcom-probes-monty-python-swearing-1
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A former member
I bet someone complain because it was cut to shreads in the first place.
DV
dvboy
623058 posted:
I bet someone complain because it was cut to shreads in the first place.


If you actually read the article I have just linked to, you will discover that people complained about both the swearing and the way the swearing was edited out.
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A former member
dvboy posted:
623058 posted:
I bet someone complain because it was cut to shreads in the first place.


If you actually read the article I have just linked to, you will discover that people complained about both the swearing and the way the swearing was edited out.


See, I didn;t even need to read the articular first to get the correct point Wink
DV
dvboy
623058 posted:
dvboy posted:
623058 posted:
I bet someone complain because it was cut to shreads in the first place.


If you actually read the article I have just linked to, you will discover that people complained about both the swearing and the way the swearing was edited out.


See, I didn;t even need to read the articular first to get the correct point Wink


No, you wasted my time replying to you because you didn't. Rolling Eyes
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harshy Founding member
Markymark posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
dvboy posted:
Really should have just recorded this and put it on after the watershed.


I'm starting to think that myself, the beep is rather beepingly annoying for beep's sake.

I can only presume that the feed going out to Cinemas is not the one that is being sent to UKTV.


Going by the reports in here, no it wasn't !! Full, uncensored f and c words, both spoken and in 'sing-a-long' lyric subtitles, and thankfully not a single frame of Dara O'Briain to ruin things either.

It was an odd experience though, packed cinema, and some people clapped, which to me didn't quite seem right. Rather surreal really, the show started at bang on 19:00hrs, with a Monty Python Live caption, and some of the songs, interspersed with video clips of the rehearsals and set build. The intermission
just had a caption with a countdown clock for part two. A girl came on to sell ice creams, would have been apt if she'd dressed up as John Cleese and had an albertross, but she was about 20, and the whole evening must have sailed right over her head.

Annoyingly the live cameras where in 'filmic' mode, (well, I suppose it was a cinema showing Wink ) but the linking clips from the TV series were interlaced. The only thing that spoilt the show were some audio glitches, not sure if they were on the feed, or a particular problem at the cinema. (Edit Seems that it was on the feed bird (5 W))

strange I remember watching on 24.5w it had the filmic effect on the hd feed as well.
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noggin Founding member
Presumably the cameras used to shoot the live performance were in 25p mode but the archived content from the original series was the usual mix of 50i studio interiors and 25p film location exteriors?

These days most (but not all) studio/OB cameras can be switched between 1080/50i and 1080/25p, so you can shoot with a 25p 'film look' live. You can also shoot live with some of the high-end D-Cinema cameras with suitable bolt-one fibre boxes - (and there is the 4K F55 system camera fibre back) though Ikegami and Arri have produced a more elegant hybrid camera with an Alexa front and an Ikegami back that gives you the best of large single sensor shallow DoF with the live ergonomics (and remote racking etc.) of a system camera.

Looks like CTV provided the OB Facilities for the O2 show - and so I suspect it was standard Sony HDC-1500 or 2500s being used (as CTV are Sony rather than LDK) - both of which can run 25p as well as 50i.

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