How Do They Do That?

Does anyone remember 'How Do They Do That?' which used to be on BBC 1 about 6 years ago? It was presented by Desnam Lynam at first before being taken over by Eammon Holmes.

'How Do They Do That?' was all about how they make things, from BBC idents to filming in the jungle.

The BBC needs to bring this programme back, if not, with another name. Anyone else agree?

I seem to remember it being the butt of a lot of jokes because most of the things were stuff you could work out how they did it for yourself. And there were rather a lot of BBC plugs disguised as 'behind the scenes' reports that fooled nobody.

Whatever happened to Jenny Hull after that anyway?

She obviously started posting on the TV Home forum!!

I was trying to think of her name, but you got it

She's back to presenting the Breakfast bulletins for South Today.

Her career never really took off then, did it?

as far as i recall there was some complains about the inadvertant 'product placement' as a lot of the stories were about specific tv commercials (like goodyear tyres, unifilla adhesive etc). As much as the beeb edited the pieces down it was always abundantly clear who the ad was for.

by the end of its run, the programme was answering questions no body was asking! as long as they had two film crews at a commercial shoot then they'd show it on the programme.

One of the classic moments on How Do They Do That was when they went behind the scenes of the making of the '2' ident and they showed us how a couple of them are down. Apparently there was a fan club for these people who loved that thing but I still haven't been able to find that society.

Russ
Who still misses Firecracker

And they also did a report behind the scenes of BBC News, didn't they? Showing the robotic cameras and that everything wasn't real.

and at the end of the series they always used to do a big film effect then show how it was done the next time they came back

there was the studio flooding and the presenters falling off TV Centre

LOL I remember that!!!!!

The sight of Desmond Lynham jumping off a tall building in central London!!

(Edited by DAS at 1:38 pm on July 20, 2001)

The one where they fell of TV centre look so fake - but the one where the studio flooded was very well done -they made a mock up - and i like it when the audience floated away. Eamon looked really scared - and he really was, because he can't swim and doesn't like water!! (a man after my own heart )

james