ok, I give in. teaser advert on the beeb. Bunch of blokes on horses carrying flaming torches. All looks v.exciting.

then it stops.

anyone know what it might be for? I hate it when they do that...

I've missed that one so far. Sorry, can't help.

it's been driving me nuts too

is there anything new coming up?

Is that the one where they stop and look over a cliff into the void below? Driving me mad too!

Not what we pay our licence for.....

I bet its something really boring too,

what was the last one they did like this?

I haven't seen it, but checked the intranet and think it might be this:

BBC One launches new TV campaign

Stampeding horsemen and a burning house are replacing the roof-vaulting stuntman in BBC One's latest tv campaign, which launches today.

The 90 second trail, entitled 'Cliffhanger', features a woman fleeing from a house fire only to be knocked over the edge of a cliff. A couple looking on are transfixed by the scene but instead of reaching to help, they reach out for another biscuit and we realise that they are in fact BBC One viewers, submersed in the action.

'A major part of the strategy for BBC One is to build a closer relationship with our audiences,' says Christine Madden, head of marketing for BBC One. 'With 'Cliffhanger' we aim to engage our viewers with this spectacular film in a way that is as involving as our programmes,'

The film follows a week of 10 second teasers which trailed last week on BBC One and is part of a summer campaign across radio and tv, and a national poster campaign.


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how dull. Cheers for finding out though!

I never understood what those adverts were for, did he just get bored with the odd bbc adverts between programs and need to run away from them or was it that he thought he might become a couch potato so he took his exercise in the loo breaks



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actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Saw the whole thing tonight - without wishing to sound fuddy-duddy-ish, I don't think that showing men on horseback with flaming torches setting light to and burning down a house which was occupied causing a little girl to run away while her mother is calling for her whilst being almost run down by one of the aforesaid horsemen and then the mother falling over the cliff calling for her little girl whose screaming to go and get help and then losing her grip whilst two people sit on a sofa watching.......(takes big breath)....then slogan appears along the lines of 'people like to watch' is really an appropriate way of advertising the BBC.

My friend, who I was watching telly with, is nearly 70 and she found it quite disturbing especially the slogan which smacked of voyeurism (and that, she said, you can find onf Channel 4!) and said that if children waiting to watch Eastenders saw it they may be frightened or disturbed as well. She wasn't meaning 7-8 year olds - they shouldn't be watching EE anyway - but I could see what she meant.

At least there was something to admire in chappie leaping from roof to roof!

What, nobody gets disturbed watching EastEnders? Disturbs me all right .... disturbs me right out of the room ... if I want to see ugly people shouting at one another I'll go to an Oasis gig.



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At least with EE you know you're going to be disturbed!

I saw the trailer mid-evening and have to agree it's rather a strange one. Certainly not suitable for showing before 9.00pm, I'd have thought. I felt it raised rather distubing questions about voyeurism too. It didn't seem like people watching a drama, or a movie, which it was probably meant to do.

Voyeurism is the national sprt, isn't it? I mean - have you seen the tabloids?



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The Beeb have had hundreds of complaints about it and are now saying that they will show some bits during the early evening but not show the whole trailer until later in the evening.

Most people complained about 'the woman falling to her death while the couple just sat there' bit.

Bring back semi-nudie man swinging from roof to roof!

No, no, lose the ads altogether! Then we could have more time for actual programs! ..... (thinks about some actual programs) ..... erm ....



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I still haven't seen it. I don't really watch BBC TV.

Er...that is.... at home, I only really watch Buffy on Sky, and Big Brother and Six Feet Under on Four. I was watching 24, but I missed a bit, so now I have to wait for the DVD.



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Whya m I suddenly reminded of the last words of Adam Faith?



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Something about everything on TV being 'not very good' - I paraphrase. I thought he restricted to Channel 5 but I may be wrong.

"Channel Five is s**t, isn’t it? Jee-sus - the crap they put on there is a waste of space."



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