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I started to watch this programme but had to give up after ten minutes
or so, as the presenter, with her thoroughly irritating habit
of pausing, at the most



inopportune moments, just mana


ged to **** me off.

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I've noticed a lot of this kind of thing of late. Its almost as if the shows
are assembled out of bits from something else and the intonation and gapps
are still in there. Its like some of those artificially voiced interactive
telephone systems.
Brian

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I started to watch this programme but had to give up after ten minutes
or so, as the presenter, with her thoroughly irritating habit
of pausing, at the most



inopportune moments, just mana


ged to **** me off.

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Are you suggesting that this is the reason she was on the show?

I noted with interest that last night on the listings, I think it was on
Really, there was a program called big on top, and the trailer made it
blatantly clear that it did in fact mean what all the men first thought of.
Oh dear, so much for intellectual content.
Brian

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On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:40:05 +0100, wrote this:

I started to watch this programme but had to give up after ten minutes
or so, as the presenter, with her thoroughly irritating habit
of pausing, at the most



inopportune moments, just mana


ged to **** me off.

But a well endowed woman!

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The practice originates from a combination of inexperienced presenters,
unrehearsed material, and Autocue. I think of it as the "Blue Peter Effect"
because the programme has always been a particularly bad manifestation of it.
In my opinion, anyone who can't give a passable rendition of "Lord Finchley" at
the audition shouldn't get the job.

Rod.

In article , Brian Gaff wrote:
I've noticed a lot of this kind of thing of late. Its almost as if the shows
are assembled out of bits from something else and the intonation and gapps
are still in there. Its like some of those artificially voiced interactive
telephone systems.
Brian

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No indeed, I blame the editing. Its probably time and budgets to blame in
that case. Talking of autocue though anyone recall that out take from
Yorkshire I think where they filled up a transparent tank in front of the
camera which the presenter was in front of and she then left a pause and
said, I can't see the autocue?
Brian

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On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:54:24 +0100, Roderick Stewart
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The practice originates from a combination of inexperienced presenters,
unrehearsed material, and Autocue. I think of it as the "Blue Peter
Effect"
because the programme has always been a particularly bad manifestation of
it.
In my opinion, anyone who can't give a passable rendition of "Lord
Finchley" at
the audition shouldn't get the job.

She isn't an inexperienced presenter.

Rod.

In article , Brian Gaff wrote:
I've noticed a lot of this kind of thing of late. Its almost as if the
shows
are assembled out of bits from something else and the intonation and
gapps
are still in there. Its like some of those artificially voiced
interactive
telephone systems.
Brian

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of pausing, at the most



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ged to **** me off.
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:54:24 +0100, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

The practice originates from a combination of inexperienced presenters,
unrehearsed material, and Autocue. I think of it as the "Blue Peter Effect"
because the programme has always been a particularly bad manifestation of it.
In my opinion, anyone who can't give a passable rendition of "Lord Finchley" at
the audition shouldn't get the job.

I remember John Noakes pronouncing a town in Uruguay as "Monty video"
and the colour separation overlay effect as "Crow marky" (which is odd
in retrospect, being on the BBC).

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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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I've noticed a lot of this kind of thing of late. Its almost as
if the shows are assembled out of bits from something else and
the intonation and gapps are still in there. Its like some of
those artificially voiced interactive telephone systems.
Brian

Going OT for a moment - does it p you off as well when that IVR
voice has been given a personality - "I'll try to connect you."

When I was at school I was taught that all such things (OK they
didn't have IVR then but you know what I mean) should be
impersonal.

Doh!



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