The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Life on Mars meets Camberwick Green" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2007/01/life_on_mars_meets_camberwick.php Comments for the entry "Life on Mars meets Camberwick Green" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:56:13 +00:00 Comment from Poly I find this info from a blog at the Manchester Evening News.

http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ianwylie/2006/11/life_on_mars_the_windy_miller.html

The sequence is part of episode 5 apparently.

]]> 2553@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c19125 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:56:13 +00:00 Comment from Scott M I don't know whether there is actually a fantasy sequence within the series itself, but there are definitely animations to be used as teaser trailers, such as this one.

]]> 2553@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c19146 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:53:45 +00:00 Comment from Rob Buckley That's wonderful! Many, many thanks for that Scott.

The Mirror reckons there's going to be a bit in the show itself where Sam has to take drugs.

]]> 2553@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c19147 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:57:39 +00:00 Comment from Rob Buckley Digital Spy's now claiming it has the trailer exclusively: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a41914/in-video-life-on-mars-returns-to-bbc-one.html

]]> 2553@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c19148 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:01:45 +00:00 Comment from Scott M That'll be exclusive in the red-top sense, then. Looks like they've encoded it to Flash themselves, at least. (It was kind of like their Torchwood exclusives, which I think were made available through the BBC Media Pack initiative)

]]> 2553@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c19150 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:33:52 +00:00 Comment from Rob Buckley "Digital Spy" and "exclusive" are rarely found together in a sentence. Most days, even I beat them to stories. Their Tubetalk bit occasionally has good stuff though.

Agreed, they deserve some bonus points for encoding to Flash themselves: they've even got a dinky JavaScript function to embed it. You don't get much of that, even on Emily Bell's watch at The Guardian.

]]> 2553@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c19151 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:39:45 +00:00 Comment from Scott M I do feel faintly guilty about being harsh on them -- they do clearly love their telly, which is something I can completely endorse (and looking at the BBC media pack, I don't think their Torchwood video clips were from there, so apologies to them for that).

Fingers crossed we'll start getting some AV content on the TV blog soon. Quite a few internal technical things to deal with first, though...

]]> 2553@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c19152 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:08:56 +00:00 Comment from Rob Buckley Video so pleasing; bandwidth so taxing.

I'd feel more charitable to Digital Spy if they paid their staff more.

Incidentally, jJust realised that the trailer doesn't have Brian Cant doing the voiceover. There's a chance missed, isn't there?

Actually, I was just reading the Camberwick Green Wikipedia article and apparently, Brian Cant auditioned to do the Windy Miller voiceover on the recent Quaker Oats ad, but they turned him down in favour of Charlie Higson. Poor old Brian: he can't even get jobs as himself any more.

Shame on you, media companies. Didn't Shine just spend ?Ǭ£35 mill on Kudos: they can afford Brian Cant's rates! How many times do I have to repeat the magic mantra "360?Ǭ?" before they have a change of heart, do you reckon?

]]> 2553@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c19153 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:16:24 +00:00 Comment from Scott M It depends what Cant sounds like now, I guess. If his voice is old and croaky, then it may not have fit as well as it did when he did them originally.

I remember watching a BBC documentary -- The Alchemists of Sound, on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop -- and being shocked to discover, in the closing credits, that the narrator was Oliver Postgate. Age had thinned his voice out so that it was no longer the same as the warm tone that had been a soundtrack to my childhood...

]]> 2553@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c19156 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:40:40 +00:00 Comment from Rob Buckley He does sound a bit thinner than he used to, but not that far off. And I'm sure a good strong pot of coffee would fill him with the vigour necessary.

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