Life On Mars

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Steve D 6 April 2007 6:25pm

tvarksouthwest posted:

Put it this way, if I was a head of Pres, and Ofcom rules didn't insist on these warnings, I wouldn't use them.

But you're not (and if you were, would YOU be generous enough to put all those nice piccies on your Flickr account?) - and they do!

The scripts for the intros for the last five episodes were written and recorded a month ago, with the billings and compliance forms as a point of reference. Two edits of each were then made to include or leave out the strong language warning for any episodes we though might be a borderline case.

BTW - the roll of paper towel wasn't holding up the globe, which is quite capable of standing on its own. It was to wipe the mirror after I'd finished trying to polish it up a bit - which is what was going on in that picture.

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Steve D 6 April 2007 6:29pm

BBCMIDSTODAY posted:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/439647266_27c8ea9c6f.jpg?v=0
Do BBC Wales still use this studio?

Very much so - around 50 news bulletins a week come from there.

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tvarksouthwest 6 April 2007 11:01pm

Steve D posted:

But you're not (and if you were, would YOU be generous enough to put all those nice piccies on your Flickr account?) - and they do!

Yes Steve, I would put all those nice piccies on public view, knowing myself what the fans like to see. But since you so bluntly remind me, I'm not a head of Pres, so it's all hypothetical.

Steve D posted:

The scripts for the intros for the last five episodes were written and recorded a month ago, with the billings and compliance forms as a point of reference. Two edits of each were then made to include or leave out the strong language warning for any episodes we though might be a borderline case.

And there are no exemptions that can be made in cases where the placement of strong language warnings might compromise artistic integrity?

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BTW - the roll of paper towel wasn't holding up the globe, which is quite capable of standing on its own.

As demonstrated by this pic from Andrew Wiseman's TV Room:
http://www.625.uk.com/tv_logos/logos/bbc1_stripy_globe_machine.jpg

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Steve D 7 April 2007 12:49am

tvarksouthwest posted:

And there are no exemptions that can be made in cases where the placement of strong language warnings might compromise artistic integrity?

Absolutely not! If by compromising artistic integrity you mean that they wouldn't have done a strong language warning in 1973 - they wouldn't ever have had to. The 'F' word and its like wouldn't have been included in a programme back then (except accidentally, as in the famous case of Kenneth Tynan) and would have been bleeped out of feature films.

As I vaguely remember (I wasn't that old in 1973) warnings for other categories now governed by the Denton Report were used when necessary - i.e. violence, disturbing scenes etc. In some cases the point would have been laboured even more than it is now. I'm pretty sure that something like 'Cathy Come Home' would have had a detailed intro from presentation that would have been signed off at the very highest level.

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tvarksouthwest 7 April 2007 8:07pm

There seems to be a lot of inconsistency in the way the rules are implemented, though. As I've repeatedly said, "strong language" is itself an ambiguous expression since, taken literally, it does not specifically mean swearing. At least call a spade a spade.

Bad Girls was an interesting case - some weeks we were warned about the language and "disturbing scenes" - others we weren't.

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Johnny83 7 April 2007 10:31pm

I still can't believe people are making a fuss out of the mock globe not being 100% accurate

Get over it!