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Christmas campaign

I was thinking the same. Thought it was the underside of a crumpet originally

By Brekkie

2 replies

666 views

AM 12 Dec 2020 6:09pmAlfie Mulcahy

Barbara Windsor Has Died

Carry On star has passed away aged 83

Under UK law you can legally use 'Fair Dealing' on moving content - for the purposes of reporting current events, criticism and review or quotation. However you can't use that legislation on...

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By JKDerry

41 replies

1,964 views

NG 12 Dec 2020 10:24amnoggin

Sunday evening TV memories

News Review's style reminds me a bit of EuroNews in the 00s. There'd be relatively long stretches with no voice over. The Money Programme was also a sort of a 'thinking-man's' consumer affairs...

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By itsrobert

66 replies

2,042 views

MA 10 Dec 2020 4:22pmMarkymark

Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary to join This Morning team

The dynamic duo will share hosting duties with Phillip, Holly, Eamonn and Ruth from January 2021.

Holly and Phil's last 2019 show was Thursday 12th as the General Election coverage replaced it.

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By DanielK

27 replies

1,917 views

JO 10 Dec 2020 2:39pmJonwo

Cbeebies into BBC Four breakdown

Cbeebies breakdown slide appears just before Four startup.

This is normal. CBeebies and BBC Four share a video stream, so just before 7pm the video going to the encoder is switched from CBeebies output to BBC Four's output. At the same time the ID on the...

By LWTfan1968

1 reply

423 views

OV 9 Dec 2020 7:32pmOrry Verducci

BBC scraps TV Channel Controller roles

In favour of a Streaming first approach

The latter.

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By dbl

18 replies

1,218 views

TI 9 Dec 2020 12:14pmTIGHazard

Britain's Got Talent 2020 Set Design- Discussion

Looks like the auditions are going to be filmed in January with a proper, albeit socially distanced, audience: Filming at the London Coliseum which I don't think they've used before. Also...

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By p1k11

168 replies

9,858 views

SC 8 Dec 2020 10:22amScore

ITV breached Ofcom competition rules over postal votes

Some viewers who posted off competition entries for various shows "had no chance of winning".

Ironically I would say ITV Play was one of the 'fairer' call to lose channels back in the day! I continually got through to the studio using the free web entry, won around £20,000 over several...

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By Josh

20 replies

797 views

JO 8 Dec 2020 7:56amJohnr

BBC iPlayer

Promo Refresh

Huh, wonder if the same thing will happen with The US Office, it’s on demand via Sky Comedy, but it still airs on Comedy Central? Will it move at the same time as Fresh Prince?

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By dbl

56 replies

2,824 views

TL 7 Dec 2020 4:28pmTyler LastName

BBC Lionheart TV

Lionheart was the BBC's North American sales and co-production operation for a number of years. It's one of the now-defunct BBC divisions, like BBC Enterprises, that have effectively rolled into...

By SA100

3 replies

371 views

NG 7 Dec 2020 7:51amnoggin

BBC's "Voice of Golf" Peter Allis has died.

Well the R&A are such a forward thinking organisation. Let's face it - money talked and anything else was just excuses. I didn't realise Peter Alliss was so old actually - thought he was at least...

By DJGM

6 replies

847 views

BR 6 Dec 2020 11:51pmBrekkie

Neville Wanless has died

Former TTTV continuity announcer

May he RIP, and he will be missed, still it's good to see that ITV Tyne Tees has acknowledged him

By rob

6 replies

671 views

RD 6 Dec 2020 9:06pmRoger Darthwell

Daytime TV in the UK

TV hours were rationed prior to 1972. The allocations were as listed here as of 1963, I don't think they changed much in the nine years afterwards: As to the background: TL;DR - it was...

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By ToasterMan

15 replies

1,301 views

NJ 6 Dec 2020 6:18pmNeil Jones

30 years since the closure of BSB

Yes, my question was actually prompted by this video I found of someone watching a D2-MAC widescreen broadcast and changing the settings on the receiver between 16:9 and 4:3 cut-out!

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By Roger Darthwell

42 replies

2,202 views

VM 6 Dec 2020 11:52amVMPhil

Sky Arts goes FTA

Available on Freeview channel 11 from Sept. 17th

Behind the scenes at Sky Arts Book Club Live.

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By Josh

117 replies

7,317 views

LL 5 Dec 2020 8:20pmLondon Lite

The state of TV fonts

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By johnnyboy

83 replies

3,179 views

NG 5 Dec 2020 11:24amnoggin

BBC 1997 rebrand - the unsullied era

Who wishes it would come back?

I liked the uniformity of the logos, to be honest. And I agree with you that the uniformity of the logos forced designers to assert visual identity in different ways. Had they been allowed...

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By johnnyboy

15 replies

610 views

JO 4 Dec 2020 7:42pmjohnnyboy

Pointless Sound Fault

BBC1

That said - if it was at the continuity announcer end that the fault condition happened (which it sounds like it might be) - I would imagine that they have a small bespoke sound desk which has inputs...

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By Brekkie

43 replies

2,573 views

NG 4 Dec 2020 10:27amnoggin

Spitting Image to return on BritBox

It’s such a shame Dominic Cummings had to go back to Epsilon 5..I mean Russia..I mean Durham!

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By bilky asko

297 replies

16,712 views

JO 2 Dec 2020 9:29pmJonwo

Wheel of Fortune to return?

Alison Hammond to present pilot for potential series

This what the Triple Toss Up is like on the US version of Wheel:

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By Jonwo

58 replies

1,748 views

JO 2 Dec 2020 6:49pmJonwo