The Last Dambuster

R I P Thank you

hi,
RIP sir, and thanks for your service…

Link to a newspaper article about the programme

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/11/03/dambuster-hunt-89520-20054843/

Just be thankful you’re not in the US, some programs have ad breaks every 4-5 minutes & repeat almost eveything from the previous segment leaving only 1 minute of new stuff.. which gets added to the repetition after the next break. They even run the exact same ad back to back THREE times…:rolleyes:

Those would be cheap syndicated (shown by local stations not on a network)celebrity news programs. Nothing of any quality.:D

Slightly off-topic but on the subject of documentaries and adverts has anybody else noticed the habit of repeating three minutes of a documentary either side of an advert break?

Just be thankful you’re not in the US, some programs have ad breaks every 4-5 minutes & repeat almost eveything from the previous segment leaving only 1 minute of new stuff.. which gets added to the repetition after the next break. They even run the exact same ad back to back THREE times…:rolleyes:

Perhaps a mod could post this thread as a sticky? I’ll only forget otherwise…:rolleyes:

A sound idea seconded by myself!

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Perhaps a mod could post this thread as a sticky? I’ll only forget otherwise…:rolleyes:

I put a premature post to this just after the dig, maybe it can be recovered ( I have no idea how) Some interesting artefacts were discovered and it should be an informative programme. I’m looking forward to it.

They wouldn’t show the classic Carling Black Label advert or the more recent Smirnoff advert would they…………….

Both could be described as appropriate.

What, where, whom, did you have anything to do with the recovery, can you tell us more.

Pity it’s on C5, the amount of adverts they put out these days are just ridiculous, they drive us up the wall. Apart from being so repetative, they like to shove a great wadge on 5 minutes before a programme is due to end. I can imaging scenes of an entire Lanc about to be pulled out of a polder when we have to put up with some all singing and dancing pillocks from a building society, ok they provide the channel revenue, but programmes like this should be treated with a bit more respect, and no doubt it won’t be.

Pete

The sad reality is that programmes like this that are commissioned by commercial TV companies only get made and screened because of the advertising revenue that is the inevitable spin-off from adverts shown during the programme. Ergo: no adverts = no programmes such as this and others of similar genre! In fact, the funding of the whole operation, recovery etc, would not be available were it not for the money from the Ch 5 adverts!!!

I was away playing with old aeroplanes the weekend of this recovery so was not able to personally attend. I won’t spoil it by telling all, save to say that the Lancaster wreckage recovered in France was an ex 617 dams raid aircraft lost on a later “op”. One of the dams raid survivors, who was a crew member on this aeroplane, was in attendance. You’ll have to watch the programme, adverts and all, to get the full story! To put your mind at rest, can assure you the subject matter is treated with total respect.

I can imaging scenes of an entire Lanc about to be pulled out of a polder when we have to put up with some all singing and dancing pillocks from a building society, ok they provide the channel revenue, but programmes like this should be treated with a bit more respect, and no doubt it won’t be.

Don’t think you need worry too much on that front

Thanks for the heads-up…..I’ll look forward to it.

Slightly off-topic but on the subject of documentaries and adverts has anybody else noticed the habit of repeating three minutes of a documentary either side of an advert break?

I’ve been watching documentaries for a long time and this is something fairly new; perhaps it is for the supposed ‘goldfish’ concentration-span of the MTV generation? Anyway it irritates the P155 out of me!

Just a heads-up for a TV documentary woven around the recovery of a former Dam Buster Lancaster wreck and the story of its bomb aimer. The programme, I hear, is to be aired on Ch 5, 17 June at 20.00hrs.

What, where, whom, did you have anything to do with the recovery, can you tell us more.

Pity it’s on C5, the amount of adverts they put out these days are just ridiculous, they drive us up the wall. Apart from being so repetative, they like to shove a great wadge on 5 minutes before a programme is due to end. I can imaging scenes of an entire Lanc about to be pulled out of a polder when we have to put up with some all singing and dancing pillocks from a building society, ok they provide the channel revenue, but programmes like this should be treated with a bit more respect, and no doubt it won’t be.