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(October 2007)

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nwtv2003
Brilliant episode Tonight! Couldn't believe John Humphrys driving around the Newsroom and Dermot Murngahan turning round Jez at the traffic lights.

The News 24 clip was obviously staged, but still LOL stuff.
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
nwtv2003 posted:
Brilliant episode Tonight! Couldn't believe John Humphrys driving around the Newsroom and Dermot Murngahan turning round Jez at the traffic lights.

The News 24 clip was obviously staged, but still LOL stuff.

I couldn't help thinking that the boardroom meeting might have been a dig at the cost cutting plans..

Does anyone have captures of the "No smoking in the studio" signs which Clarkson produced during their news segment?
GI
gilsta
Charlie Wells posted:

I couldn't help thinking that the boardroom meeting might have been a dig at the cost cutting plans..


More a dig at everything thats wrong with the BBC these days. Fantastic episode, brought tears to my eyes.
JO
Joe
Them N24 presenters look great, just like they would onscreen.

Just a quick question, would they have taken their own cameras for that or used the ones in the studio?
IS
Inspector Sands
Jugalug posted:
Them N24 presenters look great, just like they would onscreen.

Just a quick question, would they have taken their own cameras for that or used the ones in the studio?


They'd have just got the News 24 gallery to put a tape across their output. Galleries like that can be bypassed so that the studio can be used for pre-records and rehearsals while a programme is playing on air
IS
Inspector Sands
Charlie Wells posted:


I couldn't help thinking that the boardroom meeting might have been a dig at the cost cutting plans..


Probably not, the whole wthing looks like it was filmed in the summer. It was more a Clarkson dig at 'lefties' by the looks of it
JO
Joe
Inspector Sands posted:
Jugalug posted:
Them N24 presenters look great, just like they would onscreen.

Just a quick question, would they have taken their own cameras for that or used the ones in the studio?


They'd have just got the News 24 gallery to put a tape across their output. Galleries like that can be bypassed so that the studio can be used for pre-records and rehearsals while a programme is playing on air


Thanks! I ask because the angle was different, suggesting they might have been using different equipment.
DA
Davidjb Founding member
Jugalug posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Jugalug posted:
Them N24 presenters look great, just like they would onscreen.

Just a quick question, would they have taken their own cameras for that or used the ones in the studio?


They'd have just got the News 24 gallery to put a tape across their output. Galleries like that can be bypassed so that the studio can be used for pre-records and rehearsals while a programme is playing on air


Thanks! I ask because the angle was different, suggesting they might have been using different equipment.


Im guessing that was probably done whilst the One O'Clock News was on. Top Gear itself is recorded on Wednesday afternoons (occasionally Thursdays) at Dunsfold. Most of the non studio footage for the show is recoreded a few months in advance.
IS
Inspector Sands
Jugalug posted:

Thanks! I ask because the angle was different, suggesting they might have been using different equipment.


Presumably they had to frame the shot diffrently to usual because they aren't normally trying to show a car driving past the background!
MS
Mr-Stabby
Show brilliant as usual, but seeing as though this forum is about 'pres' was it just me who thought that the report that James May did which was shot at night was incredibly grainy? I've just moved from a 25 inch CRT to a 42 inch LCD with Sky HD so thats probably why things look more grainy than usual, but that bit seemed to be just that bit more grainy than it should have been.

Plus are Top Gears titles the only BBC programme titles without the BBC logo on them? Also i don't really like the new way they link the titles to the studio bits, it doesn't really work, especially not this weeks which panned away before the name of the programme even came up.

Moan over, best programme on tv though Laughing
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AxG
Mr-Stabby posted:
Plus are Top Gears titles the only BBC programme titles without the BBC logo on them? Also i don't really like the new way they link the titles to the studio bits, it doesn't really work, especially not this weeks which panned away before the name of the programme even came up.

Moan over, best programme on tv though Laughing

Maybe they should go back to the first part of the former titles with the birds eye view of the studio and logo.
MI
Michael
Thinking about it does the programme actually need the title card?
You got "Jessica", you got lots of cars, the imistakable silhouettes of the trio... the TopGear endcard is almost redundant.

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