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GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
davidlees posted:
Go on then, I'll bite. What were you doing on the show? Please provide caps if possible.


Oh, nothing special. Just a bit of hob-nobbing.

I may have got that 50% wrong.
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A former member
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZrFhqnCIzM

I never know Happy days was shown in TVAM, Did tvam show all 247, which would take about a year to do so?
NW
nwtv2003
623058 posted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZrFhqnCIzM

I never know Happy days was shown in TVAM, Did tvam show all 247, which would take about a year to do so?


I don't remember personally, but I think judging by that clip they did show them all. You have to remember TV-am was disrupted for the best part of 6 months at that time, so it was likely that Batman was shown at least once a day during that period, even after the strike I think they still showed it, I can't say for how much longer they did, but it was on Channel 4 by about 1992.

TV-am also showed Happy Days and Flipper during the strike period aswell.
TV
TV Matters
Did anyone manage to record the ident with no voice-over yesterday before the ITV news (6:40 bullet-in). If so, please upload.
JB
JasonB
Invent Meridian posted:
Square Eyes posted:
Not worthy of it's own thread, but I notice that Who Wants to be a Millionaire is getting a format tweak.

The early rounds will be against the clock and have a 30 second time limit imposed on them. Phone-a-friends will also appear in-vision.


Do you have a source for this? This sounds quite good, I may even start watching it again.


From the American version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLaxWC1EKHM
AB
aberdeenboy
On a totally different topic...

Can any Welsh posters confirm what the current policy is on ITV1 Wales breakbumpers which, as most of you know, are now the only thing which routinely makes the presentation of ITV1 in Wales distinct.

When I've landed on ITV1 Wales recently, it's been a bit random - sometimes the network bumper, sometimes the Wales version.

Is there a policy? Is the use of ITV1 Wales being actively phased out? Or have their just been a lot of cock ups and carelessness? (I'd certainly bet that by 2012 there will be no regulatory requirement for regional programmes other than news on ITV1 Wales but that's another, much more important, matter.)
SW
Steve Williams
nwtv2003 posted:
I don't remember personally, but I think judging by that clip they did show them all. You have to remember TV-am was disrupted for the best part of 6 months at that time, so it was likely that Batman was shown at least once a day during that period, even after the strike I think they still showed it, I can't say for how much longer they did, but it was on Channel 4 by about 1992.


They did keep on showing it for a while, because Batman was a big hit, I remember it getting on the cover of Look-In. It took a long time to get over the strike, when it began in November 1987 the schedule was all repeats, then in early December it was mostly repeats with half an hour of live material, and then by February 1988 it was down to just an hour of repeats, including Batman. I actually had an hour or so of TVam from February 1988 on an old Betamax and there was a bit when Richard Keys reads out a phone call from a viewer asking what happened to the second part of the Batman story which started the previous day, as that day they'd shown a completely different episode. The answer, of course, was because TVam would show these imports in any old order, and screw continuity.

I've got the 1989 Christmas TV Times and the Wide Awake Club was still showing Batman, although I think the other imports were phased out much quicker, I think their final outings might have been in the summer of 1988 before they brought back the Wide Awake Club on Saturday mornings in the autumn. As well as Happy Days and Flipper they also showed Daktari quite a bit.

Immediately when the strike began, I remember they showed repeats of the Wide Awake Club with Tommy Boyd coming on in the advert breaks to tell you not to write in. In fact the first I heard of the strike was one Saturday morning when I tuned in and a repeat was on, I remember they kept referring to it as being Bank Holiday Monday, and I was baffled. Then in 1992, after they'd lost their franchise, they couldn't be bothered with any new kids shows and for a bit they repeated episodes of Wacaday from the mid-eighties on Sunday mornings, which were completely irrelevant and an outrageous bit of programming. But I watched them every week because it was quite exciting to see "old" stuff.
BU
buster
aberdeenboy posted:
On a totally different topic...

Can any Welsh posters confirm what the current policy is on ITV1 Wales breakbumpers which, as most of you know, are now the only thing which routinely makes the presentation of ITV1 in Wales distinct.

When I've landed on ITV1 Wales recently, it's been a bit random - sometimes the network bumper, sometimes the Wales version.

Is there a policy? Is the use of ITV1 Wales being actively phased out? Or have their just been a lot of cock ups and carelessness? (I'd certainly bet that by 2012 there will be no regulatory requirement for regional programmes other than news on ITV1 Wales but that's another, much more important, matter.)


Can't claim to be a Welsh poster, but ITV1 Wales bumpers will run unless there are "themed" bumpers on the rest of the network (I.e. Brighter Side/HD/footie etc) of which local ITV1 Wales versions aren't made anymore, so these will run instead. Wales I think only appears on idents into local shows, much like in England (exc-London) between 2002 and 2006.
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DA
David
No subtitles on This Morning, this morning. It started with subtitles but now has an apology instead. I wonder if the news will be subtitled in 5 minutes.

EDIT: The news was not subtitled, but This Morning is now subtitled again.
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BR
Brekkie
Wrong thread.
Last edited by Brekkie on 2 July 2010 4:24pm
RJ
RJG
Steve Williams posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
I don't remember personally, but I think judging by that clip they did show them all. You have to remember TV-am was disrupted for the best part of 6 months at that time, so it was likely that Batman was shown at least once a day during that period, even after the strike I think they still showed it, I can't say for how much longer they did, but it was on Channel 4 by about 1992.


They did keep on showing it for a while, because Batman was a big hit, I remember it getting on the cover of Look-In. It took a long time to get over the strike, when it began in November 1987 the schedule was all repeats, then in early December it was mostly repeats with half an hour of live material, and then by February 1988 it was down to just an hour of repeats, including Batman. I actually had an hour or so of TVam from February 1988 on an old Betamax and there was a bit when Richard Keys reads out a phone call from a viewer asking what happened to the second part of the Batman story which started the previous day, as that day they'd shown a completely different episode. The answer, of course, was because TVam would show these imports in any old order, and screw continuity.

I've got the 1989 Christmas TV Times and the Wide Awake Club was still showing Batman, although I think the other imports were phased out much quicker, I think their final outings might have been in the summer of 1988 before they brought back the Wide Awake Club on Saturday mornings in the autumn. As well as Happy Days and Flipper they also showed Daktari quite a bit.

Immediately when the strike began, I remember they showed repeats of the Wide Awake Club with Tommy Boyd coming on in the advert breaks to tell you not to write in. In fact the first I heard of the strike was one Saturday morning when I tuned in and a repeat was on, I remember they kept referring to it as being Bank Holiday Monday, and I was baffled. Then in 1992, after they'd lost their franchise, they couldn't be bothered with any new kids shows and for a bit they repeated episodes of Wacaday from the mid-eighties on Sunday mornings, which were completely irrelevant and an outrageous bit of programming. But I watched them every week because it was quite exciting to see "old" stuff.


Tv-am also showed Nanny and the Professor for a time during the strike. At least one episode wasn't screened in its entirity...it just cut abruptly to something else. The old programmes were treated as mere "filler" and no thought was given to screening them in any proper order. Having said that, I remember when Border screened an episode of Nanny and the Professor in the early 70s and ran the closing credits then the final scene.
SW
Steve Williams
RJG posted:
Tv-am also showed Nanny and the Professor for a time during the strike. At least one episode wasn't screened in its entirity...it just cut abruptly to something else. The old programmes were treated as mere "filler" and no thought was given to screening them in any proper order. Having said that, I remember when Border screened an episode of Nanny and the Professor in the early 70s and ran the closing credits then the final scene.


In the TV Hell documentary on TVam, Tony Vickers the Sales Director says that one day he put an episode of Flipper on backwards, although I'm not sure how that's possible. But yes, they didn't give a toss what they showed, if they overrunning at any point they'd just fast forward a bit while the adverts were on.

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