A new dawn breaks for announcer warnings

27 July 2006 Rob Buckley UK TV 1 Comment

Gordon Ramsay and familyWarning: May contain scenes of violence

Warning: May contain strong language

Warning: Contains scenes of nudity

We’re all familiar with those kind of post-watershed caveats that TV announcers utter in those particularly concerned voices of theirs.

So what should we make of last night’s The F Word which contained these two particularly new and original warnings.

Warning: contains scenes of tail docking and castration

Warning: Gordon and Jonathan Ross are going to learn the best way to kill an eel

It’s as though someone at Channel 4 suddenly had an LSD flashback to the 60s. Suddenly, I’m looking forward to next week’s episode, just to see if they dream up something even stranger.

Warning: During this programme, Gordon Ramsay will use just the power of his mind to destroy all vegetarians within a range of 20 metres.

Warning: When the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planets, and love will steer the stars.

I’m not sure I can wait.

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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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