#bbc2

[squirrellypoo]

What a day to be in the fandom!

First all the episodes dropped early onto BBC iPlayer ahead of its British premiere tonight at 9pm, but also it occupies THE TOP PROMO SPOT for the whole iPlayer app!!

And now there’s a new interview with Jacob in the NME too!

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #jacob anderson #louis de pointe du lac #bbc iplayer #bbc2 #nme magazine

[riepu10]

Richard Armitage in BBC2's Between The Covers 6.11.2023

#Richard Armitage #Geneva promo #Between the Covers #BBC2 #riepu10 #my RA gifs

[bobbie-robron]

David Tennant & Michael Sheen on The One Show

10-Jul-2023

#david tennant #michael sheen #good omens #the one show #interview #talk of doctor who return too #bbc2 #20230710 #a few gifs

[noel-fielding-web-page]

Noel Fielding And Pixie Lott Perform An Extra Intro

#Noel Fielding #Phill Jupitus #Joey Page #Chris Ramsey #Example #Pixie Lott #Tinie Tempah #Never Mnd The Buzzcocks #BBC #BBC2 #2011

[beatlepaul4ever]

BBC2 are taking us on a tour of Paul McCartney’s childhood home in ‘Hidden Treasures of the National Trust’ at 18:35 today (Saturday)!

Tune in and log out. 😁

#paul mccartney #forthlin road #bbc2

[rainbowpopeworld]

From this video reel:

#michael sheen #michael fucking sheen #welsh seduction machine #he’s very excited about Eurovision costumes #whip it #whip it good #i made this #gif #eurovision #zoe ball #zoe ball and friends #instagram #bbc2 #olly alexander

[rebeccafergusonfan]

Rebecca Ferguson | BBC Radio 2 in London, England | Life interview | 2017

#rebeccaferguson #life movie #bbc2 #film interview #candids

[theuniversitychallengereview]

Admitting I Was Wrong

Modern sports punditry, as with everything else in the modern news cycle, exists in a 24 cycle where there is a constant need for more content. Often, this is fine because there are enough sporting events to talk about (there is almost always a sporting event happening which someone who likes sporting events will be happy to talk about), but sometimes there is a brief lull which still needs to be filled.

So you have pundits and presenters filling dead days with hours of inane chatter, predicting and repredicting the same things over and over again in an industrial-sized chucking-shit-at-the-wall machine.

If you run that machine for long enough eventually some things are going to stick (that's the whole point of the industrial-sized chucking-shit-at-the-wall machine), but at the same time there is an inordinate amount of stuff which doesn't. However, no one seems to care, because the cycle moves on at such a pace that by the time you've noticed one mistake another one comes along to take its place, and by the time you notice that mistake...

Its why Gary Neville can say Liverpool will win the league one week then flip-flop to Man City the next week. Its why politicians seem to be able to get away with similar flip-flopping on almost every major issue (and of course they are allowed to change their mind, but you get what I mean). There is no accountability for anything that anyone says because the content factory comes along to bury it under another mound of tasty soundbites and out of context ten second clips.

But I am here to change this, and change starts at home.

A few weeks ago, I predicted that Open, Trinity, Manchester and Imperial would make the semi-finals. Open were eliminated last week, but my prediction was already in the mud when UCL qualified a week before that. So I am here to acknowledge my fallibility as a pundit and all round University Challenge dogsbody.

I got it wrong, and that's okay. But you needed to know.

Before we start, you can watch the episode at this link (I've actually done this so quickly that I've beaten Cosmic Pumpkin to the punch, but you should be able to find the video on that channel, if not at that exact link), and I'm going to double down on my prediction by saying Manchester will take this.

Here's your first starter for ten.

Christ Church's avocado mascot has given birth to a smaller version of itself (which is what generally happens when something gives birth, I suppose), and one of these (probably the small one) influences the Manchester skipper to buzz in incorrectly on the opening starter, allowing Wotton to win the first points of the match.

There is another early buzz from Senehedheera, but this time he is right (no luck for mini avo this time round). A hat-trick of bonuses tied the game, and Grady gave them the lead with King Kong. A second neg from the Manchester captain, with an amusing guess of boogie-woogie (just because its a fun word, not because it was a stupid guess), gave Christ Church the opportunity to level the game, but they couldn't take it, and Senehedheera moved to 2/4 on the following starter to extend the Northerners lead.

Another from Senehedheera wins Manchester a bonus set on surnames of philosophers which can be found within other words. Agonisingly, they come up with Coelacanth and guess Kant, but the answer is Lacanth. Then on the next one the answer is Kant but they miss it. Mercifully they get the third, with John Locke.

Some more brilliance from Wotton gets Chirst Church going again, and Dean takes the next question too to bring them within 5 points. They would have tied it, but went Ella Fitzgerald rather than Billie Holiday on a question about Strange Fruit.

No matter, the chief avocado wrangler is back, and he gives them the lead after both sides drop the music starter. They don't get any of the music bonuses though, and Grady quickly snatches the lead back with gravitational waves.

I'm losing track of how many starters Wotton has got so shall we just say its five? Actually, its six now (Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, or Mecklenburg Pomdragon, as I frantically typed after hearing him say it once). He can't be stopped.

Lowe takes the second picture starter to put an end to his captain's dominance, not that his skipper will mind - their lead was up to 35 points.

To demonstrate just how fickle we pundits are, I had forgotten that at the start of this very post I predicted a strong Manchester win, but they'll need to pull their finger out if they harbour hopes of the semis. Kullmann and De Los Reyes White duly oblige, with back to back starters which give Manchester the lead.

Their little run has rattled Christ Church, and Dean apologises to her teammates after a premature buzz. A neg from Senehedheera follows hot on its tails, but no one picks it up, allowing him to take the replacement question with Lucien Freud.

Aggression on the buzzer continues with a neg from Wotton, but again no one from Manchester can capitalise and he makes up for it immediately, closing Christ Church to within 5 points.

There's only one question left. Whoever gets it wins.

Buzz, Manchester Grady!

Simone de Beauvoir.

If he's wrong we'll go to deadlock.

He's not wrong.

Manchester 145 - 130 Christ Church

As close a game as you can get, coming down to the last few words of the last starter. Christ Church's Dean says that she was buzzing at the same time as Grady, but he pipped her to the post. Fine margins.

And I guess I can claim some serious credit now, because I knew Manchester were going to win this, didn't I? My faith in them never wavered once, did it?

What a game, though. Well done to both teams, especially Wotton who very nearly dragged his team into the semis. I'll see you next time for the last quarter final (which I predict will be won by Trinity), but for now its goodnight.

#university challenge #bbc2

[squirrellypoo]

Interview with the Vampire is next Thursday’s pick in Radio Times! This is great publicity, on top of the between-show idents BBC started playing this week across all its channels.

Radio Times is still MASSIVE in the UK - there’s no real US equivalent cos TV Guide hasn’t been relevant for decades but Radio Times still has a huge readership, esp in “middle England”, ie: folks who think the internet is only Facebook and don’t “do” streaming (ie: my in-laws).

So even though the reviewer hasn’t got a clue 🙄, the important thing is the prominence here - and that all episodes will be available on iPlayer after the first ep airs on BBC 2 on Thurs 12 Oct at 9pm!

Photos by Bernadette on Twitter

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #radio times #bbc #bbc2 #bbc iplayer

[riepu10]

Richard Armitage in BBC2's Between The Covers 6.11.2023

#Richard Armitage #Geneva promo #Between the Covers #BBC2 #riepu10 #my RA gifs

[twopoppies]

Re: post on BBC Radio 2 album of the week. It is a specific slot on a specific show, Ken Bruce’s show. Now 11am might seem odd to most but radio 2 is the station that is streamed in offices and has the largest audience of all the BBC radio stations. Admittedly it is not played at any other time but what it does mean is that it is played on a popular show on a popular station and to reach outside the fandom. This is still big for the UK. This is good!

Oh, that’s good to hear. I know nothing about UK radio beyond the station name. So I’m glad at least it’s being played at a decent time. But being played once in the whole day seems pretty ridiculous given that most songs get played something like 30x a day (at least that’s how it feels).

#bbc2 #fitf promo

[placidhousee]

Via https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/12/22/the-stone-tape-nigel-kneales-christmas-ghost-story-turns-50/

#the stone tape #hauntology #nigel kneale #jane asher #bbc2 #1972

[lifeinasmalltowninjapan]

#BBC2 #MOVIEDROME #CULT FILMS FOR SUNDAY NIGHTS

[corpyburd]

Vienna Blood Season 3 is now on BBC 2 & Iplayer

#vienna blood #matthew beard #juergen maurer #Luise von Finckh #Conleth Hill #Amelia Bullmore #Charlene McKenna #BBC2 #Iplayer

[the-time-lord-oracle]

BBC2 Junction - Friday 17th December 1993

A bit of BBC2 continuity from the evening of Friday December 17th 1993, 30 years ago today, featuring a trailer for The Wrong Trousers and the continity introduction to Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons’ Shadow of Fear. Alas, BBC don’t show quality programming like this anymore!

#youtube #bbc2 #1993 #wallace and gromit #the man from uncle #captain scarlet and the mysterons