CBBC's "SMart" rewound on air this afternoon. Right back past the VT clock to colour bars. Excellent.
Not quite.
It cut to colour bars (which included the logo of a Soho post production house) and then fast forwarded to a VT clock.
I don't think that these were the bars and clock from Smart, I suspect that when it was being dubbed onto server someone changed the tape machine to another.... and no-one noticed
If we're talking about CBBC on BBC1, then all the programmes go via TC9 gallery. The director there has a bypass matrix allowing them to route sources (eg VT machines) directly to line, bypassing the sound and vision mixers, which lets the gallery rehearse the next junction.
Sounds like the director left the machine that was playing out the previous programme selected to bypass, rather than changing it to the machine playing out Smart, so once they'd got into the Smart and gone into bypass, this machine, in the process of being rewound, went to air.
BBC Scotland had a trailer for a BBC TWO programme, with the orangey-red BBC ONE closing effect but with a purple BBC TWO logo.
Maybe it was a program shown on network BBC ONE but timeshifted by Scotland onto TWO? They might have just taken the clean trailer (which is delivered sans box)
Not worth starting an entire new thread for so it can go here.
Five's Brainteaser programme was forced off the air this afternoon at just after two o'clock.
They had sound troubles, took two loads of commercials in the space of seven minutes up to two o'clock and were then taken off the air due to the sound troubles mid programme and replaced with an ep from Russell Grant's postcard series as a quick fill-in proggie.
When it became clear that they couldn't sort out whatever was wrong, Brainteaser was abandoned and out came an unscheduled history programme about castles at just before ten past two before resuming normal schedules at 2:35. Ted May couldn't apologise enough.
Still at least it proved that the programme is indeed live
Whereas Blue Peter has just shown itself to be recorded, since it got about three or four minutes in then suddenly started all over again, including Konnie accidentally dropping her football over the edge of that tower thing in the studio.
