TOT Generation game

[Clive Arthur]

OMG, you watched it?

Whatever happened to whatever happened to the likely lads?

Cheers

[DerbyBorn]

TV seems to be manipulated by the agents of a few "stars" in order to get them air time to pay tha fees of the management company.

[DerbyBorn]

newshound wrote in news:W86dnWPMQ_fy51 [e-mail]:

The agents have sold the BBC quotas of hours that must be filled by their clients.

[alan_m]

Take two hours of material that should have been binned after the hitting the cutting room floor and make it into 6 hours of broadcast TV by dividing it up into 60 second clips and get celebrities to talk about each clip at length before showing it.

Get yet another 2 hours by endlessly trailing the programs in the weeks before broadcast.

[spuorgelgoog]

The film version was on yesterday, I think.

Along with the three On The Buses films on ITVn (we didn't get them at Christmas, so they were due for their annual outing).

Owain

[rick]

Because it is easy to fill a schedule slot with such stuff

[spuorgelgoog]

I see that at 5.30 pm tonight both BBC2 and Channel 4 are featuring car boot sales (and neither programme is Flog It, Street Auction, Bargain Hunt, Dickinson's Real Deal, or Money for Nothing, all of which I suspect are of that ilk).

Never mind, there's Trust Me I'm a Vet, Supervet, Yorkshire Vet, Secret Life of the Zoo, and Animal House, all on today.

I'm waiting for the two genres to merge in Celebrity Taxidermy Challenge.

Owain

[Dave Plowman (News)]

As with all such unscripted game shows, it's only as good as the presenters and contestants make it. And you either like members of the public having themselves made to look like fools or you don't. We have enough making themselves look like fools on here without needing it on TV too. ;-)

[Andrew]

They should move it to BBC4 HD. Those folks in London with a cheapo Group A aerial will not now actually be able to see it. :-)

Meanwhile in Sussex, Quest and couple of channels that I do watch have gone to transmitter group 29, which my cheapo group C/D aerial, tied up in the loft with some string is struggling with.

We're in the doldrums here. I have line of sight to Midhurst which is Group C/D, but the southern slopes of the village have properties with Group A or wideband aerials pointing at the IOW, about 42 miles distant, while the Northern slopes of the village have houses with Group A or wideband aerials pointing up stane street, the old Roman road to London.

A couple of houses trying to get the IOW or CP have sprouted log-periodic aerials, and one or two have those massive tri-boom jobs. One bungalow with line-of-sight to the south downs even has a log-periodic aerial in vertical mode pointing at the IOW.

[Andrew]

Well, they tried resurrecting the Liver Birds, complete with grown up drug addict son. That didn't last.

'Still open all Hours' is a total waste of bandwidth.

'Friends' seems to have come back as Top Gear.

I think the broadcasters are too afraid to upset someone, so nothing is funny to anybody.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

A log beam has a good DP and bandwidth, but is also low gain, so not much use on its own for low signal strength.

[Jethro_uk]

So true ... fond memories of "Minder" are best kept that way. Avoid the reruns at all costs ...

[Jethro_uk]

Is there some lapse of copyright or something ?

What's My Line Juke Box Jury

[whisky-dave]

For me that makes the other two more intersting.

[whisky-dave]

How about Porridge it's almost identical to the original virtually the same gags but updated a bit with mobile phones, I guess it's OK if you hadn't seen it all before with Ronnie Barker.

I thought they tried to remake Steptoe & Son but it was just Corbyn and abbot in a party political broadcast.

[Max Demian]

Mainly avoid the modern 'ironic' takes. Like Life on Mars vs Sweeney.

[Jethro_uk]

Just remembered the Comic Strips "Detectives on the Edge of A Nervous Breakdown" ...

[The Natural Philosopher]

For once that is actually coherent and funny.

[Andrew]

I swear by Justin Smiths Aerialsandtv.com web site for anything to do with aerials, but I have counted at least 8 log periodic aerials around the village and only one points towards midhurst, about 10 miles away.

Most still have el cheapo contract C/D jobs and about a third have 'digital' aerials.

Their log36 aerial has the benefit of no massive reflector so I could get it higher up in the loft. It's either that or an XB10K which seems to cover the range. For some reason there is no XB10E on ATV.com which is what I really need.

[Terry Casey]

As there is no such thing as a digital aerial which, from your use of inverted commas, I assume you well know, could you enlighten us as to what these 'digital' aerials actually are?

(I would assume that the contract crap was sold under that guise as that's what seems to have happened elsewhere.)