Oh, and what really irritates me most is when you watch a show and it comes back from commercials and it's just the end credits.
Thank god, that doesn't happen over here, yet. Give it time though.
I agree with you about ECPs, as well. It's not so bad when the end credits are designed to fit the ECP template - but 99 times out of 100 they just get squashed. It looks incredibly ugly.
Cheese Head - how can you complain about the cost of digital TV when there's Freeview on the market. (...and before you get pedantic it's the receiver you pay for, the digital tv channels are free apart from the BBC channels which are included in the license fee.)
What annoys me most is as mentioned when the last part of a programme is only a few minutes long.
In retrospect, Martin Bashir annoys me, metaphorically speaking. Yes. He does.
I hate coloured and overly large channel logos/'dogs'.
I also hate commercial breaks - I appreciate they save us from paying for the channel (sometimes) but usually record a programme so I can scan through the breaks when watching it.
Cheese Head - how can you complain about the cost of digital TV when there's Freeview on the market. (...and before you get pedantic it's the receiver you pay for, the digital tv channels are free apart from the BBC channels which are included in the license fee.)
I just think all the extra Digital equipment is expensive. 500pounds for an STB can be found on the market now a days. If you were, at any point in your life, interested in sat stuff youll know what I'm on about.
Also, I was talking about Pay Digital Services, I think £50 pounds a month can be a bit much... or I'm just young, foolish, and skint..
A typical example of this would be when David Letterman was off sick for about 5 weeks with shingles
earlier this year, and more recently when Letterman decided to take a few Fridays off. As the official
title of his show is "The Late Show With David Letterman", as opposed to just "The Late Show", the
announcer (not the CBS station announcer, but Letterman's own anno) always said, for example,
when "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammar filled in for Dave one Friday a few weeks ago . . .
In instances like this, they can't really change the name of the show, to fit the guest host.
That's easy; they just produce a set of 'Late Show with David Letterman' titles and a set of 'Late Show' titles. 'The Late Show' is good enough by itself.
This has often been the case with programmes in the UK.... can't think of any examples at the mo, but there have been some - either removing the name ofthe host or day of transmission form the titles
Not particularly grand but North East Tonight removes it's "with Mike Neville" when he's off - but they're not an integral part of the titles though...rather just a bit of text at the end but the concept is the same.
1. 24-hour broadcasting on *all* five channels, with only BBC2 the exception (even if it's just at weekends).
2. The need to rebrand every few years "to keep the channel fresh". The longer you keep an identity, the stronger it will be surely. And what happened to "if it ain't broke don't fix it"?
3. ECPs.
4. Reality TV.
5. The almost-death of programme slides on BBC1 and BBC2.
6. BBC junctions getting longer and being filled with expensive, counter-productive promos, while the programmes get shorter.
7. ITV Nightscreen sticking to just one music compilation, despite being on 7 days a week, and then with bottom-of-the-barrel music. You'd think that as ITV devote so much time to Nightscreen, they'd play something listenable!
8. The addition of a third break to hour-long programmes and the relaxing of rules banning ad breaks in half-hour CITV shows.
9. Automated presentation. The scourge of technical staff and lamentable when it screws up.
10. The ITC. A non-regulator which Carlton and Granada have twisted around their little fingers.
Not necessarily in that order. There are more, but I shan't commandeer the thread...
I complain at the need for Coronation Street to trail James Bond during the credits then advertise it again after! What do I get from the girlfriend? "Who cares about the end of porgrammes and what happens between them? Just watch thr f**king things."
BLASPHEMY TO THE LIFE LONG IDENT FAN!
The fact Carlcon have taken over the network and claim to own most things pre-1993 (Carry On Don't Lose Your Head made in 1966 and Carlcon founded in 1987... course you do! ) and still use the 1993 logo that could be altered to for the word LONDON but that doesn't seem to matter now does it?
POP S H I T E shows that produce more maunfactured crap instead of giving the real singer/songwriters the big break they deserve.. Goldfrapp anyone?
Yankie dross eg Friends, Frasier etc... How much more of this termininally unfunny Yankie s h i t e will we have to put up with before someone takes note of he thousands of strugging UK writers like myself who are not given a chance as it's cheaper to import US trash?
A typical example of this would be when David Letterman was off sick for about 5 weeks with shingles
earlier this year, and more recently when Letterman decided to take a few Fridays off. As the official
title of his show is "The Late Show With David Letterman", as opposed to just "The Late Show", the
announcer (not the CBS station announcer, but Letterman's own anno) always said, for example,
when "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammar filled in for Dave one Friday a few weeks ago . . .
In instances like this, they can't really change the name of the show, to fit the guest host.
That's easy; they just produce a set of 'Late Show with David Letterman' titles
and a set of 'Late Show' titles. 'The Late Show' is good enough by itself.
This has often been the case with programmes in the UK....
can't think of any examples at the mo, but there have been
some - either removing the name ofthe host or day of
transmission form the titles
It may well be easy to do. But, to all intents and purposes, they just won't. The only time they'll change the title
to "The Late Show with Someone Else" is when Dave decides to retire, and they replace him with a new host,
as was the case when Johnny Carson retired from hosting "The Tonight Show" for NBC. Jay Leno took over.
Letterman's 56 now, I think he'll be retiring sometime within the next 3-4 years. When that happens, then
they'll make all the necessary cosmetic changes to the titles, and the set inside the Ed Sullivan Theater.
"The Late Show with David Letterman", has had the same opening titles since sometime during 1999, with only
minor changes in Sept 2001, due to the sudden tragic loss of the WTC twin towers, due to the attacks of 9/11.
The show has even had the same studio set, and main backdrop since the Ed Sullivan Theater was refurbished
in May 1996. Since then, it's only had occasional (relatively minor) modifications and a few cosmetic upgrades.
The fact is, they will not change or even shorten the show's title, just because the host is off sick, and someone
like Bruce Willis, John McEnroe, or some other last minute guest host is filling in. When it's a nightly talk show,
with a very tight schedule, realistically, they've just not got the time to start making such trivial, last minute
changes to the name of the show, or the opening titles, when they have their own studio announcer.
Even when the show's musical director, Paul Schaffer, has had time off, he's still been featured in the opening
titles sequence, both physically with the other members of the "CBS Orchestra", with his name on full display.
From New York . . . the greatest city in the world! It's The Late Show
with David Letterman! Dave's guest host tonight is Kelsey Grammer.
Kelsey's guest tonight are . . .
In instances like this, they can't really change the name of the show, to fit the guest host.
Somehow, I very much doubt they change the official title of the show just for guest hosts . . .
Tonight with Trevor McDonald springs to mind. It often uses martin Bashir, so shouldn't they rename it just plain Tonight? It's been a while now since Yorkshire's local Tonight show bit the dust after all!
The other thing I dislike about US TV is their compulsion to list and show - normally standing cross-armed with cheesy grins - the entire cast of a programme in the opening titles.
(...and before you get pedantic it's the receiver you pay for, the digital tv channels are free apart from the BBC channels which are included in the license fee.)
