I can't help feeling if someone's so thick as not to be able to realise that a TV screen seen in the corner of a shot in a drama, reporting on children possessed by aliens, is not really a genuine news bulletin, they're hardly going to be the kind who think, "Oh, hang on, they're using Swiss rather than Gill Sans, so it's obviously not real."
You really do have to hand it to the guys who made it, its got 5.8-9 million viewers every night since launch, very little drop off over three days, which should stand it in good steed for the next two episodes.
:-(
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At the risk of this becoming a Torchwood thread (Asa - can it be split?) - I've been pleasantly surprised by the story so far. I was dreading it being a twee, kiddy type of adventure with a few swear words thrown in, but it's holding its own and I'm looking forward to tonight and tomorrow's conclusion.
This week long Torchwood has been alright in a so-bad-it's-good way. It's no Battlestar Galactica but it's much more watchable then the previous 2 series. Which is probably down to Peter Capaldi, who's acting everyone else of the screen.
well any "doctor who with a few swear words" has just been killed by that deliciously dark discussion about how to dispose of the kids who'll end up on the dole. I love how the show has changed from trashy sci fi into a very dark thriller. it reminds me somewhat of state of play.
well any "doctor who with a few swear words" has just been killed by that deliciously dark discussion about how to dispose of the kids who'll end up on the dole. I love how the show has changed from trashy sci fi into a very dark thriller. it reminds me somewhat of state of play.
Don't get me wrong - I wore a very wry smile at the mention of how to use league tables!
I've noticed that the font is wrong on torchwoods version of BBC News.
That's usually quite deliberate, to just set the "bulletins" apart from the real ones?
So people don't tune in and think it's real perhaps? I was under the impression that was the reason why there's no clock at least.
Of course there was the time in 1938 when people tuned into a radio adaptation of 'The War of the Worlds' on CBS Radio in America prior to the outbreak of World War II, heard "coverage" of a load of scary events and assumed a whole shipload of little green men were imminent if not already here so it wouldn't be the first time people took fiction as reality...
It is stated in the Ofcom Broadcasting code under section 2.10 that :
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Simulated news (for example in drama or in documentaries) must be broadcast in such a way that there is no reasonable possibility of the audience being misled into believing that they are listening to, or watching, actual news.
The lack of a clock on a BBC News Channel mock-up probably wouldn't go far enough. Nor would a different font. Blowing the picture up so it's all distorted and what not seems to do it on the basis that no "real" bulletin is ever going to go out like that.
well any "doctor who with a few swear words" has just been killed by that deliciously dark discussion about how to dispose of the kids who'll end up on the dole. I love how the show has changed from trashy sci fi into a very dark thriller. it reminds me somewhat of state of play.
I always presumed the lack of a clock was to stop continuity cock ups - stopping viewers saying "well he never could have gotten across London in that time, the aliens only appeared 20 minutes ago in the story" and the like, as well as the writers having to figure out how long apart each bulletin would be in the narrative.
I was under the impression that was the reason why there's no clock at least.