Something for the Weekend - Programme Breakdown

[bonnijee]

That BT bit was scary- and what's with the adverts as well? How I hate BT.

[RediffusionMusic]

I think they need to add Iona- Matthew- The Man to the breakdown music playlist, it is used for Imagesound's system breakdown music- watch my video "The instrumental music that plays in lots of shops"

[jakedenneyfilms]

I find these strangely addictive and comforting..

[williamg209]

why BT?

[williamg209]

must of been bad they never give the tv peoples screen

[joshuk62]

All those years ago. I remember this breakdown. I hated the X Factor breakdown yesterday.

[television472tv]

What contury is Only BT For?

[jeffrey44]

@television472tv

What?

[MrDannydoodah]

OK from what has been suggested already plus some guess work I think I see what happened here. The BBC asks for use of the BT satelitte until 11GMT (12BST but they converted it because BT stay on GMT as proved by the time on the BT card), but when BT dealt with this request (I say request as I don't know exactly how broadcasters book bt satelittes) by giving the beeb the satelitte until 11 but they assumed the beebs time was BST and cut off at 11BST (10GMT).

[baker000202]

Oh, BBC breakdown music. Nothing quite like it!

[jasonfury1]

why does the anouncer have to spoil it by taslking just put a sign up for fucks sake

shame that this could not have happened during the bbcs schophantic coverage of the royal wedding or in views 24 the break up their repetive drip of propoganda

lovely incidental music shame about the recent prograame

They should offer a discount on the following years licence fee

the presenter is anoying repeting the same statment in different ways

[jasonfury1]

the whole programme is a pile of crap its not suprise that the monitors gave out

ithe amount of crap the bbc put the telly these days they should have more of these interludes since the background music is better then many other sounds the eminit from whiteicity

[indiana1977]

Breakdowns are much rarer these days. I remember when I was a kid (early 80s) it used to happen much more frequently.

[xXSuperPopStarXx]

lol this happened to me and i was like wtf and we were my family we were just aimlesly waiting

[JJSFREETIME]

is it me or is the bbc the backdown of all brackdowns haha i mean yesterday there was a problem for 2 or 4 secs on bbc 3 wtf was that about lols

[Lindelamare]

Don't the BBC have free use of pretty much all music? Why did they pick this new age shit?

[pieceofcakegaming]

ear rape

[guy2008rules]

Breakdowns need to happen to Strictly come dancing.

[AoldmanX]

Er, *Beep*

I thought he swore

[jeffrey44]

@AoldmanX

Who? What did you think they said? When?

[VyraManic]

I love watching breakdowns.

"Go and put the kettle on" - haha. The announcer handles this VERY well. Just like one I remember from childhood where the announcer had a laugh in his voice and said 'Whoops!'. Never heard an announcer say whoops before, never heard it again. xD

[rmgh123]

Good voice over, but shame he has to work over such awful music.

[rmgh123]

Well, if you're wondering what's happened to "Something From The Weekend", what the hell is wrong with you?! It's s***!

[laurdy]

when he's appologising for the breakdown you can JUST here people panicing in the background

[Trentknowsbest18]

eh, it happens

and i don't know why BT came up lol

[dollydot123]

I'd like to scoff that chocolate cake they were making.

[jeffrey44]

@dollydot123

Hi Nicola,

This was shown live in March 2009 - over a year ago. That chocolate cake will be long past it's best by now. That's assuming it wasn't eaten after the show. If you really want a chocolate cake, I'd suggest you visit your local Asda or similar. Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jeffrey.

[MATTHEWJAMESRIGBY]

A great way to spend licence payers cash!!!

[daanbrg]

It reverts to what seems to be a testcard from the local television tower or reception/forwarding-to-cable from BT. To me it'd prove that it wasn't live, since live programming is usually (at least at our local TV station where I work) not connected to clocks - unless the BBC does everything automatically and plans it's live programming in the computer and forgot to change the time credentials.

Anyways...

[enIslander]

@daanbrg Good theory, but when they cut back to Something for the Weekend, they definitely make reference to the fact that they've been off-air, so must be live.

[Habbloxian]

They should play Radio 1's latest Top 40 when they play music :P Then you can mute it and/or plug your iPod into the surround sound speakers. xP

[Dylanforlife]

On the BT tower slide, on the bottom left, it still says 10:00 gmt. BT must have forgot to change the time aswell.

[jeffrey44]

@Dylanforlife

I don't think BT would change the time. They would run on GMT all year round to avoid confusion, or cause confusion in this case.

[Dylanforlife]

@jeffrey44 Thanks for the heads up

[guy2008rules]

Well this proves that this programme is broadcasted live

Am i right?

[tiagofp1]

@guy2008rules Yes you are! If it wasn't broadcasted live, they wouldn't apologize for the technical fault... right? :)

[hirmanjeffrey]

What Music is this???!!! I have like fallen in love with it!!!

[pancakeman22]

I feel bad for these errors!! But LOL!!!!!!!!

[ianhawdon]

well, it proves it's Live I guess :-)

[jeffrey44]

No.

[EminorFunkyBannana]

i know surprisingly classy

[lukestratton1]

what music is this?

[Greg93x]

if you listen real close,you can actually hear the bbc engineers arguing in the background

[TheMbcHK]

I heard that.

[whynidge]

They're not BBC engineers. BBC playout is handled by RedBee Media nowadays.

[EminorFunkyBannana]

no u cant

[guy2008rules]

I guess BBC's Engineers drove to the BT tower and helped fix the satellite feeds.

[LuigiEspadachin]

Well, that's the advantage with these Window on the World idents, you get something nice to look at while BBC2 try to repair things.

[cloverfield911]

I love that "2". BBC's best ident since 1991

[Megavids3]

BBC Always Handle these breakdowns very well I think

[BigBoiJC]

very very classy indeed

[orgonon23]

BBC must have stopped using Murray Munro's "Against The Clock" for its breakdown music

[racrimbpsvc]

The last time that was on was in 2002.

[dillonsbestfriend]

Now just why can't the BBC use music like this for their Ceefax closedowns?

Anyone know the music used on this occasion?

[tango602]

1st breakdown i've seen for ages

[missmuse]

best breakdown i've seen for quite sometime.

[crypticlocker]

@missmuse Only breakdown i've seen for years

[guy2008rules]

Where was the programme filmed though

[zukeylukey]

The Princess Productions studios, based in the Whiteleys shopping complex in London.