Looking through my old tapes today I found an old tape of L!VE TV from the first few weeks of 1999. It had a complete episode of Lie Detector, a complete 'Britain's Bounciest Weather', and some Magic Show. I'll try and get some captures up although my video recorder doesn't like playing it most of the time. During this time the DOG went transparent, and then back to opaque.
Can we take it as read that basically L!VE TV are going to introduce themselves with a sort of "we're back" approach, as if they'd just come back from adverts, rather than making a big fuss?
Christ, this is L!VE, like they would miss an opportunity to make a fuss of themselves!
Am hopeful that it'll return as it used to be, with the bouncy weather and news bunny stuff. Absolute class, and I'm sure there's a market for it.
Can we take it as read that basically L!VE TV are going to introduce themselves with a sort of "we're back" approach, as if they'd just come back from adverts, rather than making a big fuss?
Christ, this is L!VE, like they would miss an opportunity to make a fuss of themselves!
Am hopeful that it'll return as it used to be, with the bouncy weather and news bunny stuff. Absolute class, and I'm sure there's a market for it.
I wouldn't mind seeing the female Sky News weather presenters bouncing around that videowall...
From what I recall from the original announcement of L!VE coming back. I thought that they were going to heavily rely on all their past transmitted material rather than finding money to make new programmes. I mean, come on, fancy a digital channel finding money to make new programmes, they would rather have a +1 channel than make new programmes! (ahem, rant over)
Nope, all the programmes have been shown at
some point during the earlier run of L!ve TV.
How come the Sky EPG info banner shown on my screengrab, features an 0906 premium rate phone in
competition? If this is all archived stuff they're showing, then shouldn't that premium rate phone number
have either a 0898 or 0891 prefix? Surely they're not running a phone in competition for the benefit of
the obviously small number of people (and TV presentation anoraks like us lot) watching these test
transmissions? Has anyone actually tried (or even bothered) to phone that premium rate number?
How come the Sky EPG info banner shown on my screengrab, features an 0906 premium rate phone in
competition? If this is all archived stuff they're showing, then shouldn't that premium rate phone number
have either a 0898 or 0891 prefix?
The EPG is not archived. Cable didn't have an EPG when L!VE was around before. They've obviously typed it in as part of their testing.
When L!VE has launched the archive programming will be sandwiched between various new competitions. From what I've been told, News Bunny will be returning to new live news bulletins, so it won't all be archive footage.
That would be interesting to see. For a company that took the station over only to take it off within days of takeover, would we see the channel back on the platform that so easily took it away.
One hopes that they bring back Tiffanny's Big City Tips (Better than CNBC anyday!), actually I hope they bring back L!VE Late (There's me sounding rather seedy) It was a good channel, full of crap, but good crap, crap worth watching. I liked many of the programmes, the News Bunny was good, I seem to remember something called Bunny Bingo and I have on tape somewhere a little segment called The Adventures of Rod and Dot (Basically it was a CGI cartoon featuring !) L!VE TV was one of they only few good reasons to get cable for.
I think that after the way the cable co's eventually treated L!VE TV, I think it would be nice of them to stick their two corporate fingers up to them and stick to being a Sky exclusive channel. That would pi$$ ntl: and Telewest off big time
Simon
PS: Anyone else think that L!VE would have been a *PERFECT* candidate for Freeview?
