The first recording today is a repeat of last week’s Primeval. At least this one has the beginning intact.
Media Centre Description: When a young girl chases her dog through an anomaly she finds herself trapped in a dangerous new world of deserts and twinkling stars. Her amazement quickly turns to panic when something inside the sand rises up – giant Silurian scorpions! Cutter and Stephen set out to rescue her but when the anomaly closes all three of them get marooned on the other side. Will they ever be able to find their way home?
Recorded from ITV1 on Saturday 16th February 2008 14:13
After this, the recording stops during a tribute to Jeremy Beadle, who died the previous month.
The next recording starts with the end of Diary of a Nobody with Hugh Bonneville.
There’s a trail for Radio Four and for Mad Men. Nope, still not interested.
Then, a repeat of episode one of Pride and Prejudice.
Media Centre Description: A dramatisation of Jane Austen’s classic story of social mores. Elizabeth receives an astounding piece of news and Jane’s sweet nature is put to the test when she hears that Bingley and his sisters have left Netherfield Park. All Mrs Bennet’s hopes seem dashed. Elizabeth is forced to visit her cousin, Mr Collins, and his new wife in Kent, where she is finally introduced to the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
Recorded from BBC FOUR on Saturday 16th February 2008 19:08
BBC Genome: BBC FOUR Saturday 16th February 2008 19:10
There’s a new trail for The Cult of Sunday.
Plus a trail for Tropic of Capricorn.
Then the recording stops with the start of the next episode.
The next recording is Primeval. This recording is missing the pre-title sequence, in which a mammoth is rampaging on the M25.
A woman with her young son is trapped in her car. A young man tells her he’s going to come back with a crowbar to get them out, but then seconds later, his dead body lands on the bonnet of the car. This is quite grim.
Helen meets Stephen when he’s fetching a big gun. She wants him to go with her. “Every second you delay makes Lester’s position stronger.”
On the motorway, the woman trapped in the car is hitting her horn and shouting for help, but that’s attracting the mammoth’s attention. Cutter tells Connor to get a message up on the motorway sign. This is what Connor puts up. “Tactful” says Cutter.
Cutter gets the little boy, Jake, out of the car, but the mother is trapped. Connor and Abby take Jake away from the mammoth, but Abby has an idea, so she tells Connor to look after Jake, and goes to look for a car she can use. And she finds quite a good one. The soundtrack then launches into “Oh Yeah” by Yello and I’m just hooting. This show is so much aimed straight at me.
Cutter is trying to free the mother from the car, but she’s in a lot of pain and can’t help crying out, attracting the attention of the mammoth, which sticks a tusk through the window (missing Cutter and the mother) and PICKS THE CAR UP!
It drops it upside down, then starts crushing the car with Cutter and the mother inside.
Connor and Jake have got into a truck, and Jack presses the horn, which distracts the mammoth from his mother’s car.
Cutter’s able to get the mother out, and sends her somewhere safe.
Abby arrives back, with a spray bottle of female elephant urine from a nearby safari park. Their plan is to lure the mammoth back through the anomaly, but before they can, the anomaly disappears.
Cutter then lures the mammoth into the back of the truck Connor’s in. Good thing it was empty. Cutter is delighted. “We caught a mammoth.”
There’s a reporter on the scene, asking questions of Jenny. “I’ve seen the pictures, that thing. It’s too big to be an elephant.” “Do you know what you’re right? It’s actually a mammoth.” “I could do without the wind-up.” “Stop asking stupid questions.”
Stephen arrives, with Helen in tow. “So where the hell have you been? We could have been killed.” “You weren’t.” “Not this time.” Helen says “You’re just going to ignore me, Nick?” He ignores her. “She with you?” “Not in the way you think.” “You’ve been seeing her?” “Yeah, a couple of times. But look, this is important.” “You’re fired.” “She can help us.” “You think Helen’s here to help then you’re madder than she is.”
Back in the ARC, Stephen tries again. “She predicted this. Said that you wouldn’t listen. That you were too arrogant to face reality.” “Reality? Reality? You have no idea what that word even means anymore. The world changed. We can’t protect anyone until we know why the anomalies appear and what they mean.” “It’s always your way or nothing.” “That works for me.” “No wonder she turned to me.” At this, Cutter punches Stephen in the face.
Someone drives a van into the ARC, and, oddly, Leek insists on signing for it. “You never can be too careful.” Then he wanders off.
We see what’s in the van. It looks very scary.
Abby, Connor and Cutter lie in wait in a church. Connor programmed the anomaly detector to give a false alarm, centred on the church. They know someone is intercepting the alarms and sending their men to investigate. “Next person through the door’s our traitor.”
But we already know it’s Leek, and he’s meeting with Caroline. He pays her off, she shows him Rex. “Why are you so interested in these… these things?” “Look. If you really want to know, I can show you. Your choice.”
At the church, an armed team enter followed by… Jenny! Shock twist? Cutter pulls a gun on Jenny and demands to know who sent her. The armed men with her are remarkably non-trigger happy as he points the gun at her and gives her a countdown. But she eventually tells him it was Leek who sent her. He realises they’ve got to get back to the ARC.
Meanwhile, back at the ARC, Lester senses something. He walks down to the main floor, finds the white van, with its back doors open. We see blood in another area, signs of a violent encounter. Then Leek goes full supervillain, sending a gloating message to the screens of the detector. “You’re on your own, James. There’s no one there but you.” “Leek, what the hell are you doing?” “Now, I want you to feel what it’s like to be on the wrong end of your grand disdain. The little man looking up at the big boss.” “Security! I want security in here now!” “They’ve all gone, James. Either off on Cutter’s World Goose Chase or dead now. I’m gonna hunt you. I’m gonna kill you.”
The future predator from the van appears behind him, with a strange device on its head, presumably a remote control.
This one really had me on the edge of my seat, and because my memory is terrible, I didn’t know if he would survive this.
I was really rooting for him when he finds himself in the armoury, picks up the biggest gun he can find, and starts spraying the predator with bullets. But even that doesn’t stop it.
He makes it back to the main floor. “Leek! You’re never gonna make me beg for my life, so let’s just end it now.” “All right, if you insist. Goodbye James.” “One more thing?” “Yes?” “You really are a tiresome little man.” The predator leaps towards him, it all goes slow motion…
But we’ve all seen Jurassic Park, and we know how this ends. Lester had grabbed the door control to the area they were keeping the Mammoth in, and it takes care of the predator. Did I mention how much I love this show. Especially when Lester closes the scene with “Good boy. Good mammoth.”
Cutter and co get back to the anomaly and have to find Leek. Connor hacks in to the personnel files to try to find out where he might be. But that triggers a countdown on a bomb attached to the white van. Another nail-biting sequence that Cutter solves basically through luck, pulling out the car battery to cut power to the bomb.
Helen talks to Leek about his bomb.
They track where Leek’s control signals came from, and Lester goes with an armed team to find him. Connor uses the detector to trace Caroline’s mobile so they can get Rex back, and He, Abby, Jenny and Cutter go to find her. Meanwhile, Leek waits, presumably having assumed Lester would come for him.
Connor finds Caroline’s bag, with her phone in it, but no sign of Caroline.
The armed team break through the door where the signal is coming from.
Cutter and co walk though the door next to where Caroline’s bag was, and finds Leek waiting. “I wondered who was gonna come. And I was hoping it was gonna be you.”
Lester’s team were on a wild goose chase.
Nick, having been knocked out by the armed men, comes to in a dark room. Helen is there. “I’m sorry. I told them not to hurt you.” “What are you doing here? Helen. You’re behind this.” Leek says “Helen has been very helpful, but please give a little credit where it’s due.”
The lights come on, and they can now see where they are – a facility holding quite a number of different dinosaurs in laser cages. Dinosaur Alcatraz. TO BE CONTINUED!
Media Centre Description: Lester’s worst nightmare comes true after a giant Columbian mammoth emerges through an anomaly and causes rampage on a busy motorway in broad daylight, scattering cars and sending pedestrians running for their lives. The team are thus faced with the unenviable task of capturing the angry and confused mammoth – and keeping it hidden.
Recorded from ITV1 on Saturday 16th February 2008 19:15
This recording ends with the start of Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, a programme which I never watched, but which I would probably have enjoyed. It’s the first in a new series, and their guest announcer is Will Ferrell.
The next recording is episode two of Pride and Prejudice, missing the start of the episode, most of which was on the end of the previous episode’s recording. This one has the famous Wet Mr Darcy scene. I love this scene so much, not for the damp Darcy, but for the acting of both Colin First and Jennifer Ehle as they have to maintain the niceties of polite conversation while obviously, their minds are on completely different matters.
Media Centre Description: A dramatisation of Jane Austen’s classic story of social mores. Rejected by Elizabeth, Darcy returns to Rosings Park and writes to her, revealing the truth about Wickham’s character.
Recorded from BBC FOUR on Saturday 16th February 2008 20:10
BBC Genome: BBC FOUR Saturday 16th February 2008 20:10
After this there’s a trail for Mad Men, then the recording stops with the start of Savile Row, a documentary about tailoring, not anything else that might have had that title.
The next recording starts with the end of an episode of Duel. It’s another of the blog’s coincidences that this question concerns Russell Brand, who’s currently all over Twitter with that picture of him “praying” with Tucker Carlson. As Sarah Dempster said, “Dear goddy-wod, please make everyone forget about my rapey-wapes.
Then, it’s another episode of Thank God You’re Here. Paul Merton presents.
Contestants are John Thomson.
Marcus Brigstocke.
Rufus Hound.
And Steve Furst.
Here’s the whole episode.
Media Centre Description: Comedy show presented by Paul Merton in which celebrity guests are sent through a door into a situation which they know nothing about, and must take their cues from the show’s ensemble cast to survive the rest of the scene. Comic actress and Spaced star Jessica Hynes, Cold Feet star John Thomson and comedian Marcus Brigstocke are tonight’s guests. Plus, Paul Merton steps into his own scene which he knows nothing about.
Recorded from ITV1 on Saturday 16th February 2008 22:28
The recording ends with the start of ITN News which leads with a report on Sarah’s Law.
Here’s the first Primeval ad breaks.
The second Primeval break:
The breaks from Thank God You’re Here.
Adverts:
- Optical Express
- Voltarol
- Thomas Cook
- DFS
- Fabulous magazine
- Bonjela Cool
- Ratatouille on DVD
- Land Rover Freelander
- Muller Rice low fat
- trail: Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
- Honda
- B&Q
- Cancer Research UK
- trail: Kerry Katona – Crazy In Love
- Optical Express
- HSA
- DFS
- Ratatouille on DVD
- trail: Brit Awards 2008
- Specsavers
- Stop Smoking
- McCain Home Fries
- B&Q
- Kia cee’d
- Dentyl
- Stop Smoking
- Asda
- CITV – Rescan your Freeview Box
- trail: UEFA Champions League
- Johnson’s Baby Skincare
- Fire Kills – Julie Walters
- Kingsmill
- Tesco
- BT Total Broadband – Kris Marshall
- Optical Express
- Bookstart
- DFS
- Ford Focus
- Alcohol – Know Your Limits
- Sky
- Virgin Atlantic – John Hannah
- More Than
- Centerparcs
- Welch’s
- trail: Brit Awards 2008
- Renault Megane
- Cravendale
- Think! Don’t phone a driver
- Sunday Times
- iPhone
- Wii Sports – Ian Wright
- Dulux
- trail: Wild at Heart
- Trident Soft
- Sunday Express
- Vodafone
- Hiscox
- B&Q
- Optical Express
- Carcraft
- trail: Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
- Vax
- Tesco
- Jaguar
- HSBC
- Toshiba
- Orange
- Listerine Total Care
- CITV – Rescan your Freeview Box
- trail: Brit Awards 2008
- trail: Supernatural
- trail: Lewis
- Purina Gourmet
- trail: Supernatural
- trail: Pushing Daisies
- B&Q
- Ryvita Minis – Fern Britton
- Orange
- The Brave One on DVD
- MFI
- Flora Pro-Activ
- EDF Energy
- Sunday Times
- Jaguar
- trail: Pushing Daisies
- Alcohol – Know Your Limits
- Churchill Insurance
- Ryvita Minis – Fern Britton
- Rambo in cinemas
- Tropicana
- Voltarol
- Virgin Broadband
- Actimel
- Fabulous magazine
- trail: Lewis
- trail: UEFA Champions League
- Alpro Soya
- T-Mobile
- gocompare.com
- Michael Jackson – Thriller 25
- Fabulous magazine
- Sky
- Dove Pro-Age
- Royal Air Force