Obscure pres observations thread

They should avoid trying to be witty then. I've caught a lot of announcements recently in which the CA has parroted a catchphrase from the following programme, apparently in the belief that it makes them sound hilarious, rather than sounding like a wanker who repeats comedy catchphrases witlessly. I'm not sure whether it's the same announcer or not, since the men all sound pretty much alike to me. I did spend 40 minutes beating up an armchair after the Celebrity Mastermind one on Friday night, because I've got to take it out on something. I rather hope that by voodoo, or quantum mechanics, the announcer in question might have wound up dead by 9:45, but I doubt it. This world sucks.

You could try calling BBC Information. Even if it doesn't make a difference, it'll help amuse the dozens of staff who use the audience logs as a source of amusement, if only because of the way the call centre staff choose to rephrase the complaints.

I think that's a rather extreme and worrying train of thought to go down. I think it's time we distributed your picture to the security guards at TVC reception so that they know to be wary if you come anywhere near the revolving doors.

In all seriousness though, your comment is in very bad taste, and really quite offensive.

The reason for the lack of regionally-related idents is because what was a wonderful network of regional TV companies, each with its own identity and audience, has been merged into one drab, bland, homogenised and audience-losing mass. One day, some brave young exec will come up with the idea of having "local" TV, but until that much-awaited day....

I grew up in the westcountry, where we had a truly regional ITV company called Westward TV (followed by TSW). Today, it's all gone, to be substituted by "regional ITV down the line" from Carlton. Absolutely dire....

Colin

Looks like some at channel 4 was in a rush to get home tonight, Just before the first Big Brother it had a menu trail and it said:

Now
Big Brother

10.00
Big Brotber

Yes it's not the first time Channel 4 have made a typo of spelling mistake like that recently. I remember 'The Ozbournes' not long ago.

Doesn't anyone bother to check before these menus are broadcast?

This one?...

An apparently innocuous daytime programme on C4 got a warning announcement going into the second half the other day: "French Leave includes scenes of a duck being force-fed to make foie gras".

Incidentally, I notice that Channel 4 apparently didn't think to keep a copy of Derren Brown's Russian Roulette stunt without the LIVE DOG.

Hmm, Dog and Duck? Maybe that's where the pres teams have been - would explain the mistakes! Mine's a Carlsberg, lads!