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Let the BBC entertain you this Christmas.

Published on December 4, 2007 in BBC One and Videos: Promos. 4 Comments Tags: bbc one, christmas 07.

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This time last year I posted BBC One’s Christmas promotion for their upcoming holiday programming, went off on a little tangent about the non ratings period, and romanticised the idea of actually sitting around the television with your family. I’ll spare you from hearing about the last two again, and instead just post this years BBC One Christmas promo.

The music is ‘Let Me Entertain You’ from the 1959 Broadway musical Gypsy.

UPDATE: Another BBC One Christmas promo (second video), this time featuring ‘Make Someone Happy’ by Jimmy Durante. This time predominantly featuring the upcoming comedy on BBC One over the Christmas season.

- Thanks Andy for the second video, and thanks anonymous internet for the first.

The Stepford Wives of the new BBC One ident.

Published on July 18, 2007 in BBC One and Videos: Idents. 7 Comments Tags: , bbc, bbc one.

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The suburbs of Britain, and the well dressed women who mow its lawns are the focus of the latest ident release from BBC One. See the rest from this series right here.

A new BBC One ident enters the forest.

Published on June 25, 2007 in BBC One and Videos: Idents. 3 Comments Tags: , bbc, bbc one.

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A rabbit, a forest and some fairies round out the 11th addition to the new ‘circle’ idents for BBC One.

See the whole collection here, or to see the Northern Ireland variant keep reading.. Continue reading ‘A new BBC One ident enters the forest.’

The new BBC One ident goes Tidbinbilla.

Published on June 18, 2007 in BBC One and Videos: Idents. 2 Comments Tags: , bbc, bbc one.

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BBC One launched two new idents over the weekend. This is the first of them, with a space exploration theme, the standard remains very high, and while they’re probably not my favourite you can’t deny the quality of production.

View all of the new BBC One idents here.

The Sanest Days are Mad: Radio 1′s Big Weekend.

Published on May 19, 2007 in BBC One and Videos: Promos. 5 Comments Tags: bbc, radio 1.

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If you live in the UK, your lucky enough to be waking up to BBC Radio 1′s Big Weekend, the largest free ticketed event in Europe, and if your waking up in Preston, you’re even luckier because your probably going to it.

Featuring a huge line up of acts including but not limited to; Bloc Party, Maximo Park, Razorlight (the first video features this song), Scissor Sisters (second video) and Kaiser Chiefs, the closest free event we would have to this in Australia would be Triple J’s One Night Stand.

Almost as impressive as the acts themselves though is the BBC’s coverage of the event, which spans not only Radio 1, but also nightly highlights on BBC Three and live coverage of the whole thing on the red button’s BBCi. The UK really seems to have embraced the promise of digital television, hopefully Australia will too.. eventually.

And, seeing as its a radio event, here’s some audio… Continue reading ‘The Sanest Days are Mad: Radio 1′s Big Weekend.’

The BBC One idents that started this blog.

Published on April 30, 2007 in BBC One and Videos: Idents. 10 Comments Tags: bbc one, idents.

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While I’ve gushed over these BBC One ‘Rhythm & Movement’ idents before, and posted the Little Britain variants, I’ve just realised I didn’t have a big post to show off the whole collection, so here it is. (I think all I’m missing is “haka” and any regional ones).

Like I’ve said before these are pretty much the reason I started the blog, and while I’m not sure I’m as excited about them as I once was, they certainly represent something I’m becoming pretty passionate about… I’m just trying to figure out exactly what that is.

Below the fold are the French and Saunders parodies, along with the “One Last Dance” video that gave the idents their final outing before they changed in October last year.

So keep reading…

Continue reading ‘The BBC One idents that started this blog.’

Top Gear of the Pops.

Published on March 18, 2007 in BBC One, Videos: Top Gear and Videos: TV. 2 Comments Tags: top gear.

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We’ve got Red Nose Day in Australia, and we even have some form of Comic Relief, but I’m absolutely struck with the intensity in which the whole campaign seems to over take the United Kingdom. This year alone they’ve raised over £40,000,000 and still taking your donations.

Among all the other TV specials they ran to motivate you to donate, the one that caught my eye was Top Gear of the Pops, which combined the now canned formats of Top of the Pops with everyones favourite ~~car~~ show Top Gear, all in the name of charity.. aww.

Dead Ringers: More of the idents

Published on March 8, 2007 in BBC One, BBC Three, BBC Two, Videos: Idents and Videos: TV. 2 Comments

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More of Dead Ringers’ take on the idents of the United Kingdom. The first video is actually Dead Ringers own creation of a BBC One ident, and not just a voice over like usual (I tried to think of some BBC One/Number 2 joke but you get the idea).

Check out last weeks here.

Dead Ringers: The scandal of the BBC2 idents

Published on March 1, 2007 in BBC One, Videos: Idents and Videos: TV. 3 Comments

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Not content with just mocking the idents, Dead Ringers went a step further and deconstructed the new BBC Two idents as part of special investigation parodying the current affairs show Panorama.

The Chaser also took a jab at the new ABC idents here.

Dead Ringers: Parody of the idents

Published on March 1, 2007 in BBC One, Channel 4, ITV, Videos: Idents and Videos: TV. 4 Comments

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As I’ve mentioned before it was literally an episode of Dead Ringers that first introduced me to the BBC One idents, so its probably that hilarious show I have to thank for even starting this site.

Series seven of the show started last week in the UK, and above is the parodied idents from the first episode.