We love the ads for Sky that feature Dog and Duck. It’s mainly because Sarah’s a bit like Duck (she even has charts marked “Pickles” and “Trumpets”) and I’m a bit like Dog (I put on puppet shows occasionally…); but I think the whole world be nicer if all adverts contained dogs and ducks, anyway.
The music to the ads brings back memories of children’s programmes that weren’t designed purely to make money. An innocent age, I know. In case you’re too young to remember that time, you’re probably too young to remember The Herbs, which is where the music for the ads come from.
You can download the music as a WAV file from Dave the Wave’s Herbs page.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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