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Old 30-08-2014, 19:57
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CBS Reality, on shows like 48 Hours they never give you an update on what has happened since the 2 year old show was aired.

It would only take a minute.

Has the appeal succeded ?
Is he still on death row ?
Has the re-trial taken place ?

For viewers wondering re a recent episode , Ryan Ferguson's conviction was quashed in Nov. last year and he was released after serving 10 years of a 40 year sentence.
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Old 30-08-2014, 20:07
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As featured in EE tonight for instance, surely the props people could put a few telephone directories in. And characters always have brand new suitcases even when they are supposed to be seasoned travellers.

Why are all the newspapers outside the corner shop in EE six weeks old ?

Why do people on TV buying cigarettes never mention the brand, it's always ''My usual please'' even when they've never been in the shop before.
A pint of unspecific please.
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Old 30-08-2014, 20:45
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"Here's whats happening where you are" on the news is almost certainly not something that's happening where I am.
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Old 30-08-2014, 21:03
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1. At the end of the national news, on the change to regional news, the national presenter says something like "and now the news where you are". Something insufferably patronising about it. "Where you are, the poor unfortunate wretches who don't live in London". Fiona Bruce and George Alaghia are the worst.
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They used to say "Now the news in your region" but that changed after Scots and Welsh devolution. They experimented with "Now the news in the regions and nations" but that was quickly dropped. Now they use "the news where you are" as a catch-all.
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Old 30-08-2014, 21:55
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On Good Morning Britain they do similar, coming on to tell us it's time for the news in the Granada region, I assume they do it for every other region too, making it necessary to pre-film them all.
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Old 31-08-2014, 16:39
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Why do people on TV buying cigarettes never mention the brand, it's always ''My usual please'' even when they've never been in the shop before.
Maybe they fear that saying a brand of cigarette would be considered advertising - which has been illegal since 2005.
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Old 31-08-2014, 18:03
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On Good Morning Britain they do similar, coming on to tell us it's time for the news in the Granada region, I assume they do it for every other region too, making it necessary to pre-film them all.
What is the Granada region?

I don't often watch ITV news but for some reason the other night I had it on and when it went to the local news it had stories from South Yorkshire and Blackburn!

I think it's weird enough for North East viewers on BBC getting news from Cumbria and North Yorkshire, never mind Blackburn!
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Old 01-09-2014, 18:32
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What is the Granada region?

I don't often watch ITV news but for some reason the other night I had it on and when it went to the local news it had stories from South Yorkshire and Blackburn!

I think it's weird enough for North East viewers on BBC getting news from Cumbria and North Yorkshire, never mind Blackburn!
Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cumbria areas. I know Cumbria isn't included with the other for BBC North West news though.
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Old 02-09-2014, 01:55
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Cookery shows where the camera fixes on the cook's face when I want to see the procedure he is actually performing with the food! Or equally annoying, the camera pans down to the actual cooking but there is a soft-focus vase of flowers (or similar) in front of what is actually going on.
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Old 02-09-2014, 18:02
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Presenters getting their family involved.


Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver have been guilty of this in their home food programmes.
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Old 02-09-2014, 18:27
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Waffle in quiz shows. "I know it's not a because blah blah blah... it might be b because blah blah blah... I think I'll go with c."
But then Eggheads would de done in five minutes.
When a constestant gets something wrong on some and says "Oh, my husband/sister/best mate/etc is going to kill me for that" always strikes me as a very odd thing to say.
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Old 03-09-2014, 20:42
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Every Wednesday, BBC One have a backdrop of *looks it up* Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry when they have the what's on now and next after the news.

Here's a newsflash for you, BBC One - not everybody watches The Great British Bake Off. And I'm one of them - hence me having to look up the presenters of it.
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Old 03-09-2014, 22:13
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What is the Granada region?
It's an area in the south of Spain.

On Good Morning Britain they do similar, coming on to tell us it's time for the news in the Granada region, I assume they do it for every other region too, making it necessary to pre-film them all.
No, they don't; they simply announce it's time for the news in the Granada region to everyone in the United Kingdom.

Someone complained about this to them, and their response was "Those living outside the Granada region are third-rate godless scum who will burn in hell when the End Days come, and they don't deserve their own announcements."
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Old 03-09-2014, 22:17
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this also annoys me, the battle of Waterloo was before my time but I could tell you about it quite specific detail
Indeed. It was before my time as well(!)... yet I could tell you that at Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender. Oh yeah.

I saw some quiz once where the young lad had never heard of Abba
That's inexcusable, and also explains his ignorance about the Battle of Waterloo.
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Old 03-09-2014, 22:50
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Adverts that lead you into believing they've finished, but then start again

''blah blah *product* try it out now!'' *advert, music, everything ends, then: ''...and now, introducing some more things to keep you from your programme that little bit longer''

This is worse when the company has a catchphrase or slogan, which they use at the ending of both!
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Old 03-09-2014, 23:31
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It's an area in the south of Spain.



No, they don't; they simply announce it's time for the news in the Granada region to everyone in the United Kingdom.

Someone complained about this to them, and their response was "Those living outside the Granada region are third-rate godless scum who will burn in hell when the End Days come, and they don't deserve their own announcements."
Don't be a dick.
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Old 03-09-2014, 23:36
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Watching reruns of What ever happened to the Likely lads and I notice in the pub scenes they are drinking flat beer from beer mugs with handles ...in the North East beer has never been served in beer mugs and always had a creamy head.
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Old 04-09-2014, 15:13
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Watching reruns of What ever happened to the Likely lads and I notice in the pub scenes they are drinking flat beer from beer mugs with handles ...in the North East beer has never been served in beer mugs and always had a creamy head.
Locals around here, even the Wetherspoons have served ale/beer in mugs.
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Old 04-09-2014, 15:45
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John Barrowman putting on a Scottish accent when talking to Scottish people and then going back to American when talking to a non-Scot or addressing the viewers.
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Old 04-09-2014, 16:19
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Fixed that for you...
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Old 04-09-2014, 19:35
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John Barrowman putting on a Scottish accent when talking to Scottish people and then going back to American when talking to a non-Scot or addressing the viewers.
As a result of this: I wonder if his head exploded when trying to decide whether to do his Scottish accent or his American one for his part of the Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games (as, although it was in Glasgow, he was address both Scots and non-Scots).
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Old 04-09-2014, 19:42
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John Barrowman putting on a Scottish accent when talking to Scottish people and then going back to American when talking to a non-Scot or addressing the viewers.
I thought it was Canadian
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Old 04-09-2014, 20:37
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You sound grumpy, I guess you don't live in God's own country, the Granada region.

Mind you, if I knew I was going to hell for all eternity because I lived in the ITV Yorkshire area, I'd be grumpy too.
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Old 04-09-2014, 20:45
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Old 04-09-2014, 21:21
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Adverts that lead you into believing they've finished, but then start again

''blah blah *product* try it out now!'' *advert, music, everything ends, then: ''...and now, introducing some more things to keep you from your programme that little bit longer''

This is worse when the company has a catchphrase or slogan, which they use at the ending of both!
Has anyone *ever* been inspired- or even favourably inclined towards the company- by one of those corporate slogans (of the type that would normally appear beneath the logo in print).

For example, Sony's is "Make.Believe". (*) You know that some w****rs at an agency got paid silly money to come up with that . Note its oh-so-wannabe-clever wordplay that's sort of saying "make believe" and "Make." and "Believe." You can practically feel the cocaine-fuelled smugness from the agency "creatives" coming off that one.

Doesn't do **** for me- ironically, it actually distracts from and cheapens the brand name, IMHO.

Hitachi has "Inspire the Next". Vague, cod-inspiral, vapid, pseudo-grammatical garbage that I doubt anyone has ever given a t**s about.

They are- as you say- even weirder and more annoying, when they're read out in a standard "tacked on" manner at the end of the advert.

Feel free to add other bland, smug corporate slogans that you hate yourself

Despite not being a fan of Apple, the "Think Different" slogan a while back at least justified its existence from a commerce point of view by getting attention and promoting their customers' favoured view of themselves as being not quite mainstream (at least back when they used it, since that was in the pre "every man and his dog owns an iPod"- and later, iPhone- eras).

But most slogans? Pointless, self-aggrandising corporate drivel.

(*) Edit; the good news is that they apparently dropped "make.believe" just recently. (Yay!) The bad news is that the new slogan is "BE MOVED". (Yawn, plus ca change, etc etc..)
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