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C4's "Your Face Says It All" vanishes at mid point break.
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Anyone else watching "Your Face Says It All" on C4 only for it to not return after the 30 minute advert break?
Instead they're running a repeat of Gadget Man. I didn't see any "We apologise for the interruption" alerts.
Instead they're running a repeat of Gadget Man. I didn't see any "We apologise for the interruption" alerts.
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Your Face Says It All is supposed to be on, but has been replaced "due to technical problems".
I always thought that these days programmes were on a HDD with at least one back up; not like the old days when tapes could go wrong!
Perhaps they mean a rights or legal issue has prevented them from showing it?
It's very odd isn't it.
We cross posted at the same time, I'll get them merged
Maybe technical really means legal issue ????
...which had me thinking "well pranked, Channel 4!. Very good. Had me fooled. Now put the programme back on."
Channel 4?"
Has there been a situation where a programme has been pulled halfway through in recent times? I know of strike action pulling programmes during broadcast in the past but nothing like this, particularly so because technical difficulties are rarely, if ever seen nowadays.
ETA: It's being repeated on Channel 4+1 with no forewarning like a caption or verbal warning. Have your recorders and YouTube upload pages ready for around the half hour mark (as this will inevitably be uploaded to YouTube by many).
True, but I'd have thought that there would be inbuilt resilience these days.
I believe that even in the days of U-Matic tapes, they ran two together, so that in the event if a problem, they could easily get the programme back on the air.
Pulling a programme off halfway through hasn't been seen since the days of industrial action!!
With the exception of Channel TV who had special IBA dispensation (on financial grounds) no mainstream UK TV broadcaster has ever broadcast programmes from U Matic tape, they were only permitted for news acquisition, and play-out of news reports, (and ONLY news)
Dual running Quad Tape Cart Machines were used by the larger ITV companies for commercials playout, and I'm sure key programmes had alternative copies ready to go
on standby VTRs.
If its a "technical" issue, then I bet this means a technical compliance with the programme as delivered. If C4 failed to play-out something that was scheduled and delivered to them in full compliance with spec, then that's a full systemic fail rater than just a technical one.
BBC4 have an interesting show about black holes, apparently there's one at the centre of the universe. As some broadcasters think that they are ....... Well you get the gist, and yes its been a bad day and I'm being facetious.
Remember that C4 don't play out their channel themselves any more - it's all done by a third party. Anything could go wrong.
Hmmmm, so it is a black hole then?
This happened on the night Michael Jackson died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gioP_kxFSU
This just seems incredibly strange. I have a theory of what got the programme pulled but no way of verifying it without the source material which only Channel 4 and the programme makers will be privy to and won't share publicly.
Channel 4 doesn't look as if it is going to rebroadcast the programme, merely put an edited version on All4 tomorrow.
It's already on All4 via Sky. It's listed as 49 minutes which is about right for an hour long programme (with no ads) although I haven't watched it.
They said it was a technical problem and that's all it was. Things go wrong sometimes.
I thought it was a Granada Plus moment all over again!! Didn't they just got to an ad break then pull the programme off air mid way through the ads before they closed down for good? Pie in the Sky or something I think they were showing at the time?
At the end of the replacement programme, the CA said that the programme could be seen at 0:05 on Friday (she meant Saturday).
After doing a TiVo search, there are scheduled repeats before this slot.
If this is an indication that the programme won't be aired until it's last scheduled repeat showing, I think that those who think that this is something other than a technical problem are correct.
Tonight's episode was about celebrity faces; perhaps one of them made a complaint that was felt to be possibly or actually justified and the programme had to be pulled very quickly??
The correct version is already on All4.
No legal threats or conspiracies, just a genuine error.
It was Pie in the Sky. I was watching it at the time as I was off work ill!
I watched the first half, up to the add-break and then decided I'd had enough and watched something else.:p
The BBC played out Open University programmes from U-Matic for many years through a dedicated OUCon suite. This was notable in that one announcer worked both BBC 1 and 2 simultaneously, completely self op. It's been speculated that using a non broadcast format might have been a concession to avoid union issues, with one person doing what might be expected to be the work of at least 6 in those days.