I wonder how much that cost the BBC

20 seconds of footage of Brian Cox in a Lightning

in the wonders of the solar system

extreme envy - you bastard

 

Ginge

 

Ginger by one post....

 

Only because I posted elsewhere first ...

Anyway - hog's post was journey to the centre of the earth, not up into
the atmosphere

his correction was later

 

and the answer is £10,000 for one climb to 50,000+ feet

 

In terms of overall cost of a hour's programming, not that much.
Still 10K plus crew, plus flights and hotels, etc, all for a programme
that could have been made without some ponce poncing around at
fee-payers' expense.
Makes me glad I'm not paying it.

 

you watched it, though?

typical.

 

I paid for it and didn't watch it. That's more typical.
But I did see a Lightning hanging from the ceiling
at the RAF Cosford museum and it cost me nothing.

 

If you watched it on cable in Ireland, you did pay for it.

 

No. After last week's episode, where I switched off halfway through,
sick of the grinning twat and others of his ilk, I didn't watch this
latest one.
OU programming, it ain't.

Ha.

 

Sky/Freesat.

 

I believe your taxes paid for it. Not a cheap plank either.

--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

These days that would be almost half the entire budget of your average
doc. The BBC are making docs for 25 grand at the moment.

That may sound a lot for 30 minutes, but when you take into account the
time and the wages of all the people it takes to make a professional TV
program, that's absolutely nothing. Hence why so much stuff is shit.

--
Veggie Dave
http://www.iq18films.co.uk

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim
that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

the "hence" isn't anything to do with the wankers making the shit
then? ;-)

 

The people who work on these things have little to no control. Half the
time the camera man, for example, is actually a production assistant
with a camcorder. At the production end of things, the people who know
what they're doing are too expensive so they get technical jobs done by
the unqualified instead and work to the ethic of 'we'll fix it in post'.

The editor, who has to take hundreds of hours of badly shot shite and
turn it into something broadcastable, is given less than half the amount
of time that's really needed to get the job done properly and is then on
the receiving end of a bollocking when the production budget goes over
because the edit/grade isn't finished on time (a budget that was never
going to be met but as long as the production company get the job it
doesn't matter ... apparently).

The suits have the control but don't seem to have the slightest idea how
things are made or what people want to see. Even more bizarrely, the BBC
aren't allowed to see how production companies have spent the money they
were given. So, a production company say we need £100,000 to make this
documentary. The BBC commission it because they thought it would cost at
least fifty grand more, so it must be a bargain. The production company
then cream twenty grand off the top and give the crew £80,000 to make a
£150,000 documentary.

If you know about the decline of the British bike industry up to the
80s, or I guess any other British industry that died on its arse, then
you'll know what's going on at the BBC.

--
Veggie Dave
http://www.iq18films.co.uk

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim
that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

that's a bigger sucky bite than JAWS 3D.

 

Jesus, that's what, a quarter of what they used to spend on half an
hour? Costume dramas aside.

 

Heh, it struck me that he spent the whole show smugly wondering how he
managed to get away with all these foreign trips, to present primary
school science, and couldn't stop grinning about it.

 

Cheap 'n not so cheerful.

Oh yes, I've noticed the downward trend in techniques and values over
the past year especially.