Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Television odds and ends

Most amusing quote of the day so far came from Annabel Croft on GMTV regarding last night's match between Murray and Wawrinka which went to five sets as "Wawrinka was playing [Murray] at his own game" makes sense I'm sure the match would have over much quicker if Wawrinka thought he was playing cricket. Word of advice sports metaphors rarely work when described sports.

Also caught an old Milky Way advert featuring two cartoon cars red and blue with red guzzling away before coming a cropper trying to leap a ravine. Okay might just be me but have they changed one of the lines? Blue eats the fluffy cloud covered in chocolate representing a Milky Way to "Because it tastes just right" [from memory] whereas I'm sure it used to be the catchphrase of "Won't spoil his app-e-tite" Anyone agree?

Also the scale of professionalism gets better. Annabel was cut off mid-sentence; Kate was left with an obvious unscheduled pause in her 7am introduction presumably expecting a cut-away and on the BBC between an OB and studio shift we were presented with a still image of Michael Jackson for no apparent reason. Oh and last night on the 6 o'clock news George turned to the camera such that the big board was behind him which showed the Wimbledon graphic as he discussed Gordon Brown and the latest parliamentary session. The mistake was quickly realised, but instead of replacing the graphic they switched to the standard head-on shot. After that piece we returned to exactly the same shot... oo deja vu.

Again I might just be picky here, but don't these sorts of glitches seem to be occurring more often?

Oh and good advert time I caught the Oasis drink Rubberduckzilla advert, happened to be with my parents at the time. Their reaction was "What the hell was that"; mine - "That was bloody brilliant".

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