Happy Birthday BBC TWO

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BBC Two celebrates its 40th anniversary by taking a look at the people and programmes that have made the channel what it is today.
Integral to the evening are behind-the-scenes stories from the controllers and contributors who saw the channel through adversity, controversy, innovation and invention.The programme hears the stories behind such classic programmes as The Likely Lads, Arena,The Old Grey Whistle Test, I, Claudius, Boys From The Blackstuff, Not The Nine O'Clock News,Top Gear and Little Britain to name just a few, as well as some of the channel's less auspicious offerings, such as The Borgias.
The programme is punctuated by original sketches written and performed by the Dead Ringers team and dotted throughout the evening are the strange and wonderful letters from the readers of the Radio Times, who were moved enough by the channel to put pen to paper.

When is this on?

One night where guidelines can be thrown out the window and a series of reproduced and original idents can be shown? Pleeasee!

What a fantastic picture! I'm almost feeling nostalgic for the stripey 2 now (and no, I still don't want to see TWO).

It's part of the "BBC TWO Spring & summer highlights 2004" press pack, which could mean ages yet. Or it hopefully could be the 20th of April.

Hopefully they'll show clips from this http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/bbc2launch/

Let's just hope it's not in 16:9 cropporama, though it probabally will be, which means I won't be watching if it is.

Are you saying you can't enjoy something if a bit of it happens to be cut off?
I'm sure I'm not too bothered if something is broadcast cropped, if it's enjoyable to watch.

Joel.
xxx

Perhaps they'll celebrate with a power cut.

I was quite looking forward to it until I read that

Wow, it's amazing how old BBC2 is now. I remember it in 1994 when they were celebrating their 30th anniversary. It would be nice if they dug out some old idents, especially the Stripey 2, it would be good to see that again. It sounds pretty good, it would be good if they showed a couple of old programmes too.

The big 4 0 for 2.

Next it'll be the big 5 0 for ITV, that sounds good too.

If the BBC are reading this, I'd like to see a different one of their classic idents with announcer (or without) - the stripes, the "2", the revolving tri-colour 2 etc. at the start of EACH celebratory prgramme on that evening. Now that would be good...

It's not a bit though, it's a quarter of the picture, and that's a lot. I personally find it very hard not to notice. Especially being somewhat of an amatur film maker myself it makes me feel stronger about it and notice it more.