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ABC1 Videos: Chaser's War

This week in current affairs shows: Part 6

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This (slightly belated) weeks lesson: interviews

If you missed it, here is part one, two, three, four and five.

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ABC1 Videos: Chaser's War Videos: Idents

There’s more to.. deconstructing idents

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I’ve just finished catching up on the last two episodes of The Chaser’s War on Everything, and thought this was really well done. Its just a mock directors commentary to one of the new ABC idents, its kind of similar to what Dead Ringers do in between sketches with BBC idents, but still cool, and its nice to know that we are not the only people who notice when idents change.

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Web Misc

And I’m back

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I’m back in Australia, the trip was awesome, I didn’t get to capture any international idents, Ireland was interesting, their RTE Two looks a lot like FOX8 (but green). Ireland and Bahrain both had Paramount comedy channels which I hadn’t seen before, and I got to watch BBC Prime in Manama (pictured) which was interesting (even if there wasn’t that much I really wanted to watch on it).

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SBS Videos: Promos

SBS Emulator

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(Before I went overseas I pre wrote a few posts to fill the empty space while I was gone.. this is one of them.)

This promo from SBS about digital TV has been around for a while, but its a cool take on it.

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BBC One Videos: Promos

Planet Earth

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(Before I went overseas I pre wrote a few posts to fill the empty space while I was gone.. this is one of them.)

Promo from BBC One for the awesome new Planet Earth series.

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BBC One Videos: Promos

Chris Moyles

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(Before I went overseas I pre wrote a few posts to fill the empty space while I was gone.. this is one of them.)

A few posts ago I showed you the BBC Radio 1 promo for Zane Lowe, this is the one for Chris Moyles.

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Videos: TV Web Misc

God, we have fun.

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“God, we have fun”, that was a line from the opening scene of this weeks episode of The Simpsons. I thought it was an appropriate line, nicely reflexive and retrospective and timed perfectly for The Simpson’s Movie trailer.

My love of the Simpsons is pretty well documented, so I couldn’t not post this.

I leave the comfort of my Arlington wifi tomorrow so probably won’t bug you with Simpsons crap for a few days.

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Web Misc

Marge Simpson: Dove spokeswoman.

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I was in a Rite-Aid today and took this picture, I don’t know why it seems so cool, I just love that Dove got Marge Simpsons (a cartoon character!) to sell their hair styling products.. she’s never looked better by the way.

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BBC One Videos: Idents

The BBC Brand

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(Before I went overseas I pre wrote a few posts to fill the empty space while I was gone.. this is one of them.)

This is one of the new BBC brand videos. Its designed to not promote one specific BBC venture, but instead the whole corporation.

This is the one about the liberation of Kabul.

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Foxtel Videos: Openings

But before I go.

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I’m sure you’ve already seen this on YouTube, but now that its been used as the actual opener for this weeks new episode of the Simpsons (the Ricky Gervais episode), I thought I’d share it again in this context.

They cleaned it up for use in the episode by adding the ‘created by’ credits etc. I don’t think Sky could of could have imagined how well this would go.