First today, we start with another recycling song. And Andy does some building.
Then, an episode of Bob the Builder: Project Build It – Roley’s Tortoise. While they’re building a bus stop, Roley almost runs over a tortoise.
They’re not very good at looking after it, as Bob manages to get it mixed in with a lot of lettuces after Roley falls asleep while watching it.
Apparently the best way to find a tortoise is to crawl around on the ground.
Luckily the farmer was paying attention and returns the tortoise to its owner, Mrs Potts.
Bob builds a tortoise run for Mrs Potts.
Media Centre Description: Animated adventures with Bob and his gang: Roley the Steamroller, Lofty the crane, Scoop the bulldozer and Dizzy the cement mixer, who are always ready to help out when there is a problem. Bob, Wendy, Roley and Dizzy are finishing a new Bus Stop. When Dizzy spots a ‘stone’ moving across the road. Wendy realises that the stone is a tortoise and everyone decides that ‘Timmy’, as Roley has named his new friend, would be a lot safer at the yard. Poor Bird feels a bit left out!
Recorded from CBeebies on Wednesday 24th October 2007 07:58
BBC Genome: CBeebies Wednesday 24th October 2007 08:00
There’s a trail for The Large Family.
Then Andy does the birthday cards and the recording stops during an episode of Bobinogs.
The next recording stays with CBeebies, and Andy plays a game called Lola’s Lunchbox.
Then, an episode of Charlie and Lola – I Will Be Especially, Very Careful which I looked at on a previous showing.
Media Centre Description: Children’s animation. Join Lola and Charlie, a brother and sister, as they deal with topics that affect their everyday lives. Lola is overjoyed when Lotta finally agrees to do swaps: Lola can borrow Lotta’s brand new fluffy white coat in exchange for Lola’s clippy handbag. In spite of promising to be extremely very careful, things don’t quite go as planned for Lola. How can she possibly own up to Lotta that her brand new white fluffy coat is lost?
Recorded from CBeebies on Wednesday 24th October 2007 08:23
BBC Genome: CBeebies Wednesday 24th October 2007 08:25
After this another trail for The Large Family. Then yet another outing for the Autumn song. Then the recording stops during Tweenies.
The next recording starts with the end of Ray Mears and Ewan McGregor: Extreme Jungle.
There’s a trail for the Stephen Poliakoff Season. There’s also a trail for Children in Need featuring Eastenders.
Then, a repeat of Heroes – Unexpected which we watched on its BBC Three premiere.
Media Centre Description: Drama series in which people all over the world deal with the newly-discovered superpowers they possess. Peter painfully learns that someone close may have betrayed him and Claude. Matt’s world spirals out of control when radioactive man Ted Sprague and Hana Gitelman, a fierce young woman with ‘wireless’ mental abilities, drop into his life. After blood is spilled, Hiro makes a difficult decision about his mission. Claire is unable to contain her anger at her father.
Recorded from BBC TWO on Wednesday 24th October 2007 21:00
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Wednesday 24th October 2007 21:00
There’s a trail for Electric Proms and one for Leave Us Kids Alone.
The next recording is Heroes Unmasked – Sets And The City.
Location Manager Michael Dunitz explains how some areas of Los Angeles double for New York, as the show shoots entirely in LA. On one particular block there’s three different locations for three scenes.
Ruth Ammon talks about how, when shooting a New York scene in LA, they always hope for more overcast weather.
Hey, it’s the John Badham, director of so many films in the 70s and 80s, including WarGames and Blue Thunder.
There’s the shooting of a scene that I think was in an episode I missed where all the main characters are there at the same time.
Ross Anderson talks about populating an LA street with lots of New York taxis.
DoP Nate Goodman: “It was a sequence that normally would take about three days on a feature, and we jammed through it with one day.”
Zachary Quinto talks about the scenes where he was locked up in his cell.
Mark Kolpack does the visual effects, for when, for example, they have to turn Malibu beach into a beach in India.
Ian Quinn talks about a car stunt that was partly filmed as a bluescreen effect.
My recording cuts off at this point. Here’s someone else’s upload, though.
Media Centre Description: Behind the scenes of the drama series. Our Heroes’ journey may have taken them between New York, Tokyo, Las Vegas and Madras, but in reality they have never left LA. We take a look at the combined work of the series’ location managers, set designers and graphics experts, filmed in local city streets and complicated studio sets.
Recorded from BBC TWO on Wednesday 24th October 2007 21:45
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Wednesday 24th October 2007 21:45
The next recording starts with another Children in Need trail.
Plus trails for Celebrity Scissorhands and Leave Us Kids Alone.
Then, an actual new episode of Heroes – Company Man. After a short scene showing Matt Parkman and Ted Sprague breaking into the Bennets’ house just before the cliffhanger from the previous episode, we flash back 15 whole years – such a long time that it’s black and white – and find Mr Bennet (who the announcers keep referring to as HRG) starting his career with the secretive organisation. And his boss is only Eric bloody Roberts.
His partner is Claude (Christopher Eccleston)
The flashbacks are interspersed with the scenes in the Bennet house as Matt tries to get answers, while trying to keep control of Ted, who’s almost literally a loose cannon.
We see the time that Bennet was ordered to adopt Claire – by Hiro’s dad, George Takei.
Young Hiro is playing a GameBoy I think.
Ted loses his patience and threatens to kill Claire’s mother. Bennet thinks to Matt, telling him to shoot Claire to take off the pressure, knowing she’ll recover.
We meet the Haitian 14 years ago, and much younger, for the first time Mrs Bennet needs her memory erased.
Back in the present, Bennet now knows that the Haitian can talk. I confess, until this episode I didn’t know he was supposed to be mute, but that’s probably because of the all the episodes I’ve missed. Bennet says “Who else knows about Claire?” “Just you and I. But that will change.” “She wasn’t supposed to remember any of this. I gave you specific instructions.” “I answer to someone whose instructions supersede yours.” “In this company?” “In your daughter’s life.”
7 years ago and they’ve discovered that Claude has been leaking information, so Bennet has to get rid of him. Claude has hidden someone with powers, although we don’t learn who here. Bennet shoots Claude, who then goes invisible. Bennet doesn’t find him.
Back in the present, Bennet and Matt bring back some secret files for Ted, and in return, the Haitian releases Claire and her mother and they get out of the house. But then Eric Roberts turns up again, and shoots Ted. Incidentally, I checked iMDb for his credits to see if this was his first episode (it was) and oh boy, does this man work a lot. Never mind the quality, feel the width.
Shooting Ted was not the best strategy, as he starts to heat up. Bennet has a tranquiliser that he brought back from the company, but he can’t get close enough.
In the end, it’s down to Claire again to administer the tranquiliser before Ted can explode completely.
They’ve got Ted at the company. Bennet has convinced his boss Thompson that the Haitian was the one who was hiding Claire, and he knew nothing about her powers. But now he has to bring her in.
Another flashback, to 3 years ago. Claire learns that she’s adopted.
And it’s also an origin story for his horn-rimmed glasses. I knew, as soon as I noticed that Bennet wasn’t wearing glasses in the first flashback, that they’d have an origin for those bloody glasses
They drive to the same bridge where he took Claude, but this time it’s Bennet who has to be shot by the Haitian so that Thompson will still trust him. There’s a tearful goodbye with Claire (its all about the hugs) and he tells The Haitian to remove any memories that might lead Thompson to Claire.
Media Centre Description: Drama series in which people all over the world deal with the newly-discovered superpowers they possess. H.R.G.’s past catches up to him as Matt and Ted Sprague come to Texas looking for answers and take him, his wife, son and Claire hostage, leading to a tragic and explosive showdown. Secrets are revealed and new threats to the heroes are introduced.
Recorded from BBC THREE on Wednesday 24th October 2007 22:00
BBC Genome: BBC THREE Wednesday 24th October 2007 22:00
After this, there’s a trail for the episode of Spooks we saw yesterday.
There’s a trail for Don’t Tell the Bride which has always seemed like a horrifying idea to me, although for all I know it’s heartwarming and life-affirming.
This is followed by 60 Seconds of news. Madeleine McCann stories are still top of the news.
Then the recording stops with the start of an episode of Leave Us Kids Alone.
The final recording today is a movie, Fight Club. It’s one that’s much beloved by some people (mostly men I would guess) but it doesn’t really push any of my buttons. It’s very slick, has a good twist, but it’s basically a film about how great and manly it is to punch someone repeatedly in the face, and since boxing has always left me cold, this just isn’t for me.
Still, there’s a good performance from Meat Loaf as a member of a testicular cancer survivor’s group.
There’s a scene where Edward Norton’s narrator has to find his power animal, and it’s a penguin. I swear that because of this, I’ve always got it in my head that the big explosive climax here is actually the climax from Batman Returns involving a lot of penguins.
Helena Bonham Carter smokes far too much in this movie. So does Brad Pitt for that matter.
I’m not doing a big story rundown here – after all, what’s the first rule of Fight Club.
Media Centre Description: Anarchic, nihilistic satire on modern life. An office worker who feels emotionally deadened by his consumerist lifestyle has a chance encounter with a charismatic man. Finding they are kindred spirits, the two men start up a no-holds-barred bare-knuckle fighting club, with the aim of making its members feel alive once again.
Recorded from Film4 on Wednesday 24th October 2007 22:58
Here’s the ad breaks from Fight Club.
Adverts:
- Black Xmas on DVD
- Russian Standard
- Monster.co.uk
- trail: Sex, Lies and Videotape
- trail: Channel 4 at 25
- Marks & Spencer
- intercasino.co.uk
- Alcohol – Know Your Limits
- Black Xmas on DVD
- Dyson
- Specsavers
- Tropicana
- 30 Days of Night in cinemas
- British Gas
- Skoda Fabia
- trail: Film 4 9pm
- Ask.com
- VW BlueMotion Polo
- Abbey
- Rendition in cinemas
- moneysupermarket.com
- Which?
- Sainsbury’s
- Activia
- Nivea for Men
- trail: The Green Mile
- Honda Civic
- TomTom GO
- Canarias
- BT Broadband – Kris Marshall
- Monster.co.uk
- Pilkington Glass
- Petits Filous
- Marks & Spencer
- Direct Line
- trail: Channel 4 at 25
- 30 Days of Night in cinemas
- McDonalds
- Nationwide – Mark Benton
- Philadelphia Splendips
- Aquafresh
- Coco – Kiera Knightley
- Specsavers
- trail: Film 4 9pm
- Honda Civic
- Nivea for Men
- Brantano
- Aquafresh
- Canarias
- Sure Men
- Saw IV in cinemas
- Direct Line
- trail: Sex, Lies and Videotape