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BBC5 Launch Night
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What used to be known as Channel 5 has re-launched as BBC5 over christmas.
Last night's launch night consisted of 1985 TOTP's, followed by 'Some Mother's Do Have Them' and 'The Likely Lads'.
Don't know if I like the idea of repeating the shows the next day.
Do Channel 4 see the new BBC5 as a threat as they are running the full length film of the BBC's 'Porridge' tonight.
Last night's launch night consisted of 1985 TOTP's, followed by 'Some Mother's Do Have Them' and 'The Likely Lads'.
Don't know if I like the idea of repeating the shows the next day.
Do Channel 4 see the new BBC5 as a threat as they are running the full length film of the BBC's 'Porridge' tonight.
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but seriously I do hope Channel Five does not do this often
Channel5 seems to have given up this Christmas, is this how they will cut costs in the future.
The world has changed a lot with high rating BBC shows being produced by Talkback Thames and ITV productions and stations like STV airing BBC shows.
All things considered its a good deal for the licence payers!
Still I do wonder what the other channels offer that isnt BBC/ ITV repeats & US imports.
As for Five, as you say its a cheap option, but ratings were ok
Five has done alot worse in the past, however it did get hit at 9pm (Likely Lads)
I thought Dave was known as "The Clarkson Channel"
I think David Shayler is involved with that site.
Why? Free publicity!
Well the BBC do own 50% of UKTV which is no doubt the reason why a lot of the BBC's programming is made to fit in with adverts. Still its nice to see the BBC can go commercial if it wants too
The ad breaks in Dave are always poorly timed, the fact is most shows will have a spot where an ad break can be taken, even if they dont try to put that spot in.
Actually I think any show which may have consideration for ad breaks, is one that has co-production funding involved.
Another reaosn there maybe spots for an ad break is that its down to the production companys looking for future resale, rather than the BBC itself.
I had a strange feeling you would be one of the people disagreeing with me however people can see how long BBC shows are these days but you carry on denying
It's not that they are poorly times, but cut badly - most stuff ends up being screened in a same sized slot as it would be on the BBC but is obviously cut to shreds to fit the ads in.
The ratings were very good last night, suggesting this was a popular alternative with viewers. But BBC 5 it is not, just Channel 5 trying something a bit different.
Don't forget the occasionally shocking editing for things like Top Gear. You can tell where content should be, and you can sometimes see jump cuts where one of the hosts is about to say something but the editing removes it.
feel free to name a show? in my experince BBC shows run there time slot if not more, for example the most recent Doctor Who was 62 minutes, instead of 60.
In that case you'd have thought that given the amount of money that commercial resale brings in, they could hire better editors or get the presenters to re-record bits to help with that.
If BBC WW wants to take what aired on the BBC, edit it, maybe pay Clarkson and co to record some new links, and sell that to commercail channels, then it can, however doing that would not be a suitable use for the licence fee.
But when a channel chooses to place an ad could be literally anywhere in international terms.
American programmes used to allow for ad breaks directly after the titles.
Some programmes are becoming very annoying as they seem to have been edited into byte size chunks to allow for variations in the placing of adverts.
Often on daytime programmes they'll repeatedly have a sting preceeded by what's coming next and followed by a re-cap of whats happened so far.
The obvious hacking of programmes by stations such as Dave, shows how cheap minded they are and have just probably entered a timecode into a computer.
Channel 5 chopped a very funny scene during 'Some Mothers Do Have 'Em' to go to an ad break with a dodgy edit.
Many of the digital channels don't seem to have the creativity or money to make programmes and are heavily reliant on the BBC, ITV or C4 for content.
But then it could be argued programmes should have content that appeals to an international audience rather than UK, which can lead verrrry bland programmes.
I think TOTP's used to provided links done for foreign broadcasters but that may have been done as part of the original deal.
Never heard that before but I think they show a lot of Top Gear.
OMG I'm gonna have nightmares after that :eek::p
They don't. BBC WW does that.
Why wouldn't it?
The edits are made to accommodate the commercial breaks and are made to a set time, the exact same time for each episode. Recording new links would ruin this as they would take up more time. And the new links would be so obvious, as the TG presenters and set have changed considerably since some of the earlier episodes.
Do you think the presenters would go to all the trouble of recording new links anyway? I don't think so.