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From: api053@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Garion)
Subject: Re: Yorkshire and Countdown
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:57:45 GMT

In article <C1B7w9.2wv@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk (The Freak) writes:
>       It is beyond me how Countdown has continued to live its 
>       exsistence after all these years.It is one of the most dire
>       shows ever to have been known on this god-forsaken planet
>       of ours.
>       But there again this does not surprise me....
>       ..the programme is made by Yorkshire TV.
>       The Yorshire originators of such a difficult concept...
>       (ie making words from astring of random letters!!)
>       must have surely been excelling themselves.

Neal, this is probably because you couldn't do Countdown if you tried!  You
would probably be as good at Countdown as a certain Mr Whitely is...
Though I think the plastic smiles could do with a change, and we should be
treated to some interesting characters in dictionary corner....
What's happening to Carol Vordermann?  She's been slowly deteriorating in 
recent times.  In the past couple of weeks, in the only two shows that I've
managed to watch recently, she hasn't been able to complete the numbers game,
where others have (My mum and the guy in dictionary corner).

I might find my way to apologize, Neal, if this is just another joke: ie
does Ms Rutherford spring to mind??????

Yours,



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From: MCPerry@cen.ex.ac.uk (M.C.Perry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: West Country TV - replaces TSW
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:41:23 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Computer Unit. - University of Exeter. UK

In article <1993Jan20.135909.11409@vax.oxford.ac.uk> susher@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
Path: cen.ex.ac.uk!strath-cs!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!oxuniv!susher
   From: susher@vax.oxford.ac.uk
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   Subject: Re: West Country TV - replaces TSW
   Message-ID: <1993Jan20.135909.11409@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
   Date: 20 Jan 93 13:59:09 GMT
   References: <1993Jan13.114604.15307@aber.ac.uk>
   Distribution: uk
   Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620
   Lines: 36

   In article <1993Jan13.114604.15307@aber.ac.uk>> wrote:


  > West Country TV makes TSW look like the most professional and up-to-date TV
  > station in the world. West Country is a complete disaster!
  >
  > They can't work the equipment.
  > The presenters can't present.
  >
  > Come back TSW, all is forgiven!
  >
  > Steve

 
er.. you saying TSW presenters could present ? They looked like puppets...
Gus Honeybun (cringe) could have done better... anyway WTV doesn't have
any presenters they have cool gfx and decent voice overs ... TSW bodged up
loads more times than WTV and they didn't even have any decent technology...
then again I did move down from Central land so I wasn't use to such archiac
crap like TSW!    TSW was pathetic! Helluva WTV!
 
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From: dowds@iiasa.ac.at (Angela  DOWDS)
Subject: Lost Empires Help
Organization: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:16:27 GMT

Please could anyone help me in my desperate attempt to get a video copy of
the Granada Series Lost Empires (book by J.B. Preistly)  Will pay of course.

Many thanks.

Angie
From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
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Subject: Re: Granada address
Date: 23 Jan 93 11:57:31 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.


It's in my list of useful UK TV addresses but...


%%
Granada Television
Granada TV Centre, Quay Street, Manchester, M60 9EA
Tel: 061-832-7211

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Exactly who makes the Tannoy announcements in M*A*S*H?  It can't be Radar
and there is never anyone else in the office.  (This refers to `classic'
M*A*S*H of course, not M*A*S*H*Lite with all the Radar removed at source.)
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From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: Star of Inspector Morse
Organization: Morituri Te Salutent, Inc.
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 18:14:20 GMT

Paul S Wain (ee89psw@brunel.ac.uk) wrote:
> 
> My other (non-related) claims to fame are that my mum used to go out with John
> Motson and the Rory Bremner has been round my house... 
> 
"John Motson knew my mother".  No, it doesn't work, Lloyd George still 
sounds better.  Do football commentators have a social life?  It must be 
hard dealing with someone who can only say things like "You're the sort of
person who's sooooo unique!"

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From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
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Subject: Re: Marti Caine TV shows
Date: 25 Jan 93 09:16:38 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.


She should junk all the padding and just tell jokes like she used to do.


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Exactly who makes the Tannoy announcements in M*A*S*H?  It can't be Radar
and there is never anyone else in the office.  (This refers to `classic'
M*A*S*H of course, not M*A*S*H*Lite with all the Radar removed at source.)
From: mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: MORSES NAME (Spoiler)
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:56:31 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, U
Originator: mbeattie@black

In article <1993Jan21.194626.11434@vax.oxford.ac.uk> operator@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>The name of Inspector Morse begins with an E.
>
>Must be Everybody...
>
>
>As in Everybody wants to know my name!!!
>
>
>Apparently Colin Dexter will reveal the name one day. In one of the books (and
>maybe a TV Special). Morse will receive a letter. which will state his name in
>full. The letter from his past will spark off another new mystery.!!
>

According to the radio this morning (as pinched from one
of today's papers, I think) Colin Dexter often referred to
Morse on set as Ernie Morose (sic) so current betting seems
to be on `Ernie'.

--Malcolm

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From: cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk (The Freak)
Subject: Re: Bring 'em back.
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:16:39 GMT

In article <C1HDLJ.M84@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei308@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jet Girl) writes:
>In article <C1H72L.C7F@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk (The Freak) writes:
>>In article <C1H6p9.9M0@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei308@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jet Girl) writes:
>>>In article <C1H64u.5w8@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk (The Freak) writes:
>>>>In article <C1H5tA.3Eu@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei308@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jet Girl) writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>BTW Freaky dear, can you imagine what it would be like if COVENTRY UNIVERSITY
>>>>>were on University Challenge????  Tee hee!!!
>>>>>
>>>>>love
>>>>>Joolz
>>>>>
>>>>    Especially if the team consisted of EBAT second years.We may just 
>>>>    scape a score of a starter for 10,but only if the question was to
>>>>    do with lifting disabled people in and out of swimming pools.
>>>
>>>
>>>Hmmmm...if ONLY EBAT students made up the team, I wonder who'd be on it???
>>>I guess you'd be okay if it was about Prisoner:Cell Block H and I'd be okay
>>>if my starter for ten was on Jeanette Winterson, but after that I guess we'd
>>>be a bit stuck!!!
>>
>>   Well we could maybe have that mature student...James Walton,specialist
>>   subject how to bloody annoy everyone without ever trying.But that
>>   still leaves one more seat to fill....
>>
>>>
>>>What is your answer for the lifting device BTW???  Me and Poldark liked the
>>>idea of just pushing them in, but....   Or indeed a device very similar to
>>>a torture dunking chair......
>>>
>>
>>           The catapult idea is quite good,as is the bungee jumping idea.
>>	   I can imagine them now springing up and down,fractionally
>>	   touching the swimming pool now and again.
>>	   Have you done your Brainstorming yet.?
>>	  
> Oh we thought of bungee jumping too!!!!  And lassoo.  Yeeeeee-haaaa!!!
>
> Yep, we have done our brainstorming exercise, but have we finished our
> decision matrix???   NO!!!  And when has it to be in????  THURSDAY!!!
> Will we get it done???  NO!!!!!!!!!
>
   Well last week Mr.Wood told us we had done our report completely wrong.
  *BOO* and so we had to do it again.Sonja and I were due to have a meeting
  yesterday but she never turned up...*DOUBLE BOO*
  So I hope she has done it coz I havent.!
  Are you going to fix your decision matrix.? Of course you dream of
  doing anything like that would you.? Not like us...
  God I hate design,nearly as much as I do Blakes 7.
  Oh, by the way what do you reckon to us setting up -OUR- own 
  problem page newsgroup.? The Freak and Luddite Help Page.
  I reckon it would be excellent.!


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From: cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk (The Freak)
Subject: Star Meetings.
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:42:53 GMT


      If we are going to start the the topic on which 'celebs'
      each of us has met,I may as well add my two pence
      worth.
      I have shaken hands with Val Lehman outta Prisoner
      Cell Block H,
      Met him who used to play the gay one in Eastenders
      (Colin I think),although whether thats a good thing or a bad
      thing I dont know.
      and wait for it...this is the best one.....
      Waved at Paul Daniels on a countryside road.
      WOW.!
      
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From: mei172@cch.coventry.ac.uk (guru)
Subject: Re: Channel 4 adverts
Keywords: Channel 4, bloody annoying.
Organization: guru's 24-hour TV viewing den, Coventry University
Distribution: uk
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:57:23 GMT

In article <7247@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> mark-r@spec0.ee.man.ac.uk (Mark Robinson (JO PhD)) writes:
>And what are those funny, psychadelic(sp?) animated diamond
>thingies (well you try describing them :-) that Channel
>4 has started showing before each advert break. OK so
>they last <1 second, but they're still bloody annoying.

guru sez:
	it seems to be some way to remind people they're watching C4..like
	putting the 4 logo in the corner of the screen on everything. 

	The first time I saw it I thought it was a mistake, but now I think
	it's quite a neat little gimmick.

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From: arkhive@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Ailsa Jenkins)
Subject: Granada address 
Distribution: world
Organization: QLA - Quantum Leap Anonymous
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:36:04 +0000


In article <1993Jan21.140034.868@iiasa.ac.at> dowds@iiasa.ac.at writes:
 
> Could someone please give me the address of Granada Television?

Granada Television
Granada TV Centre
Manchester M60 9EA

Tel: 061-832 7211
Fax: 061-832 7211 ext 3405

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From: mprc@troi.cc.rochester.edu (M. Price)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: More Coronation Street Crap
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:36:29 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

Does any kind soul know where I can get Coronation St.
updates--contemporary UK ones rather than the somewhat behind the times
U.S. versions? I've gone three weeks without a fix--help me!!!

                                                                 mp
From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Yorkshire and Countdown
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:10:50 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Jet Girl (cei308@cck.coventry.ac.uk) wrote:
> In article <C1B7w9.2wv@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk (The Freak) writes:
> >       It is beyond me how Countdown has continued to live its 
> >       exsistence after all these years.It is one of the most dire
> >       shows ever to have been known on this god-forsaken planet
> >       of ours.
> 
>  On this point I have to agree with you.  It is totally dire and Richard
>  Whitely is a patronising, condescending git.  I dont know anyone who likes
>  him...but then again I know no one who even watches Calendar (YTV regional
>  news programme).  We're all too busy delighting in the charms of Harry and
>  Judith on the other side...
>  

Is it true that Richard Whiteley is really about 7ft tall? I've seen him
from a distance and he looked awfully large -- one of those tall, gangling
people who consists mostly of extra knees and elbows...

pete
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From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: Star Meetings.
Organization: Morituri Te Salutent, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 19:28:11 GMT

Marlon Cole (cczcole@mips.nott.ac.uk) wrote:
> I once discovered Magnus Magnusson signing books in a store in York (c. 1981)
> when I was out with my girlfriend of the time - we asked if we could take his
> photo - he said only if we bought a book, but we were students at the time so
> couldn't.
> I was only allowed to take his piccy if my young lady was also in the picture,
> so they stood together, they both grinned broadly and I snapped away.
> On leaving the shop I was told that all the time MM had been groping my gf's
> backside - so there you have it, MM's a dirty old man :-)
> 
Not quite.  Celebrity does funny things to your life.  Robert M. Pirsig, 
author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" relates (through his
autobiographical character Phaedrus in the new book "Lila") how the 
publication of the first book got him approaches from women that middle-aged 
professors from backwater US Universities wouldn't normally expect to 
receive.  Not just crazy women with fright hairdos either: we're talking 
corporate lawyer types here.

I guess that enough of this will get you to believe that you can take the 
odd liberty here and there and get away with it.

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From: ramsey@cua.edu (Betsy Ramsey)
Subject: Re: Blake's 7 Jan releases
Organization: The Catholic University of America
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:37:31 GMT

In article <C19AJt.2FM@cck.coventry.ac.uk> csg194@cch.coventry.ac.uk
(Morph) writes:

> Tape 1 *has* been edited.

I just checked, and there is indeed some footage missing from the
commercial B7 "Space Fall" tape.  The scene in question occurs
approximately 24:07 into the episode (for those with real time
counters on their VCRs).  It's when Avon is fighting with the
technician in the London computer room, just after the scene where
Gan persuades the guard to open the door.

I've compared the BFS (NTSC VHS) commercial tape with two off-the-air
recordings, one from KTEH in San Jose, CA and the other from WETA in
Washington, DC.  (The two off-the-air recordings are identical, btw.)

In the scene in the computer room prior to the one with the missing
footage, the technician has just punched Avon twice.  Avon has
stumbled backwards, and the technician is seen to follow him off
camera.  Then we cut back to Blake and company in the prisoner
quarters.  Gan gets the guard to open the door, and the prisoners
cautiously file out.

In the commercial tape, the next thing we see is Avon grasping the
technician by the hair.  The technician is holding his face as if in
pain.  Avon hurls the technician against the door, and the technician
collapses, unconscious.

In the off-the-air recordings, the next thing we see after the
prisoners file out is Avon, with the technician's hands wrapped around
his neck, being slammed against the computer room wall.  Avon grasps
the technician's arms, trying to break his grip.  And a nasty grip it
is, too.  At one point it almost looks like the technician is gouging
a hole in Avon's cheek with the thumb of his right hand.  Unable to
pull the man's hands off him, Avon instead bashes the technician's
ears with both hands (one to each side of the head).  Evidently this
is quite painful because the technician releases him and nearly
collapses, his hands moving to the sides of his head near where Avon
struck him.  This is where the commercial tape comes in.  Avon grasps
him by the hair and arm and hurls him against the door, which does the
job.

So the commercial tape is missing about nine seconds.

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From: dave@yoyodyne.demon.co.uk (David Bisping)
Subject: Re: WHERE IS QL? 
Distribution: world
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:55:59 +0000

In article <2980.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg> imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk writes:

>In article <1993Jan27.104447.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>, clg171@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
> wrote:
>
>>what has happened to QL,the last time it was shown was before christmass
>>and as I understood, there was still some episodes left.
>>Does someone out there know the present situation.
>
>After "Last dance before an execution" the announcer said that QL would
>return in February.  This means to me that it will begin again after Police
>Squad has ended.  If I have counted right, 4 out of 6 have been shown so
>far. 
 
Which just happens to be when Spender finishes on Beeb1. Who says Auntie 
doesn't favour there own programmes :-)

Dave...
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From: stevep@apollo.HP.COM (steve pearce)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Why is UK Gold thus unpunctual
Date: 22 Jan 1993 13:24:23 GMT
Organization: SSG/CSY Pinewood, UK
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In article <1joqrfINNk2q@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, s_goetz@irau31.ira.uka.de (Oliver Goetz) writes:
|> I am watching UK Gold for a while now and I couldn't
|> help but notice how unpunctual they are.
|> 
|> I can't understand that, since they've got NO
|> programming of which they don't know exactly
|> how long it is. 

The major problem is that the BBC programs that they show are really 30 minutes
or 60 minutes long, after you insert adverts the whole thing starts to get out
of hand. By the end of the evening they can be up to 15 minutes late!

|> 
|> And the worst thing is that they are not only
|> running behind schedule. Their shows and films
|> sometimes begin much earlier than scheduled.
|> (Two times, when I tried to tape the Sunday
|> repeat of Alexei Sayle, I didn't have the 
|> beginning of the show, though I had programmed 
|> my VCR to begin recording 10-15 minutes early.)

To compensate I believe that they do start some programs early In the knowledge
that they will lose time later on!

|> 
|> Why can't they have VPS (Video Programming System),
|> or is this completely unknown in the UK?
|> 

It exists. However the teletext on UK Gold is very simple (in fact it is 
only in testing currently).

|> 
|>                                 |  "Ich kann mit einem
|> Oliver "Oli the Grate" Goetz    |   Eierloeffel Fledermaeuse toeten!"
|>   (s_goetz@ira.uka.de)          |                     - Monty Python
|>  

You may have problems later on, they are almost certain to scramble this year and since they are supposed to only be transmitting to the UK, the smart cards
will not be generally available outside the country. But I'm sure that will be
overcome :-)

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From: py1djf@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk (D J Ford)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: That many complaints?
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:40:30 GMT
Organization: School of Physics, University of Bath, UK

In the referenced article, cei308@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jet Girl) writes:
>
>>The most outstanding complaints (in that they were specificially mentioned
>>on the radio) were the Claire Rayner Sanitary towel ad (the one in a Kilroy
>>like setting) 
>
>Just out of interest, why did so many people object to this advert???  Okay,
>admittedly it was BLOODY AWFUL, but...
>
	True, but no better than any of the other coy ads.
	Atleast I say a minor breakthrough last night.
	The woman on the Always Ultra advert actually said
	"period" I think its the first time ive heard it on
	ITV advertising.

>I reckon that most men just get embarrassed about having sanitary towels
>advertised on TV - GROW UP !!!
>
	Errm, actually. From what Clair rayners said in
	interviews most people who complained were
	young women. This shocked here, and rightly so.

>Actually I remember hitting my housemate last year when he said something
>about the content of that advert, but I guess that's the kind of person I
>am...
>
	What did he say?

Dave Ford. Bath Uni.

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From: noel@lonemb.demon.co.uk (Noel Bradford)