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BBC1 Presentation Gaffes
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On BBC1 in London the Pres announcer said at 7 pm tonight that EE would be on ''in 30 minutes'' followed by Panorama. In fact EE was on at 8 pm. This is not the first time I have heard such mistakes. Surely the BBC should give the announcer a free copy of the Radio Times ?
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Firstly I doff my cap to you sir, as you are obviously someone who has never made a mistake
Secondly, a free copy of the Radio Times? The BBC has nothing to do with that now!
Make yourself look a pratt, why not?:kitty:
It's not unusual for presenters to make mistakes. The makers of "out-take" TV programmes do very nicely out of them.
Still, over the years the BBC have improved, there was once a morning radio presenter called Jack de Manio who couldn't even tell the time, often got it wrong by an hour when he gave time checks.
Calling a show the wrong name.
If I was paid to make an announcement lasting a few seconds every 30 or 60 minutes I would make sure I got it right - thanks for your apppreciation of my comments..
The clock came up, and the announcer said-
'And now on Thames the News at One from ITN read by..... read by..........read by....... erm .... read by.... read by a newscaster who is at ITN now with the news.
By this stage the clock (still on screen) was reading 10 seconds past One, and he was getting drowned out by the theme tune.
A joke which they perpetuated through the Timpson/Redhead years!
They could have made a generic non specific announcment.
In fact as it was an Inside Out VE Day Special, couldnt it be trailed as such?
There was a BBC 1 announcer a few years ago, that said, '.......and over on BBC 4 now, A Very British Coup'. Except he pronounced 'coup' as 'cooop'
Digressing,
It surprised me that if he were still alive Jack de Manio would be 101.
How time flies?
To be fair , I think she was referring to the Bank Holiday weekend , but Billy & Louise looked a bit taken aback when the cameras went back onto them .
De Manio was perhaps most famous - when he was a duty announcer - for introducing a piece of music called Land of the Niger except he didn't say Niger
'There now follows a Party Political Broadcast with The Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stifford Crapps'
It should have been Stafford Cripps.
Edit- It was said by McDonald Hobley.
http://www.oldbrightonians.com/notable-obs/film-theatre-television/mcdonald-hobley-s.-1931-36.html
''For those of you watching in black and white Wolves are playing in yellow'' - John Motson
''Harry Commentator is your carpenter'' - Frank Bough
Actually that post is another mistake, it was David Coleman who said and your Carpenter is Harry Commentator.
I love the classics,
Cutting To adverts when a goal is going to be score, oh wait a minute it can't be said as that's an ITV error.
Attributed to Brian Johnston but some doubts
One thing which I am surprised doesn't happen more often, with continuity announcers who announce on both BBC1 and BBC2, is them mistakenly saying, for instance, something like "... and now on BBC1 ..." (when they are announcing on BBC2), and vice versa.
I think they are set up in advance, and the evening announcer had just arrived, and assumed everything had been set up correctly.
He was expecting to announce 'Songs of Praise' over the ballet dancers ident- and was somewhat taken aback to find himself introducing SOP over the Hakka ident instead!
On a similar note: James Naughtie lived up to his surname by misnaming the then Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Before an eight lane track race, it was the practice to rehearse him reading out the names of each competitor. On one occasion he had difficulty pronouncing one of the athlete's names, an Algerian, he had several attempts at it but still couldn't manage it. When it came to the live broadcast, he got round it by saying, "In lane four we have the gritty Algerian, in lane five......."