Posts Tagged ‘ ATV ’

ATV nostalgia – LIVE

Something wonderfully warm & geeky for a Saturday featuring lots of clips of old ATV stuff. Also including "Castle Haven the Emmerdale prototype soap the sole surviving part episode with pre-Tiswas Sally James". Saturday 6th June 2009, 12:00 – 7:00 pm Stourbridge Town Hall.

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BiNS Advent Calender 2008 – December 15th

Chris Tarrant narrates kids through the joys of doing Christmas shopping in Rackhams. From 1981′s ‘Stop Look and Listen’, there’s a great bit of the grotto upstairs and some quite atrocious attempts to film the shop window displays. See every entry in the BiNS 2008 Advent Calendar. Buy a 2009 Calendar for 365 days of Brum.

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ATV Nostalgia

ATV Nostalgia

Following on from yesterday’s Central TV nostalgia, let’s look a franchise back and see some stuff about ATV. First and best place to go is ATLland.net, where alongside normal things like Tiswas and Crossroads they’ve managed to archive things like idents, traillers and ‘ATV Localspots’. ATV Localspots were sort of like adverts, although they didn’t move — and were useful only if you wanted a caravan, a fur coat in Dudley, an avocado bathroom suite, or a holiday booked on King’s Heath High Street: Some of the people from the site are also working on a documentary for DVD release all about ATV — called ‘From ATV Land In Colour’: “using the same low-cost hand-held technology that killed off many much-loved ITV regions, we’re doing it with a sense of style. It’s not a bunch of anoraks wondering round the outside of the studios for an hour with a wobbly camcorder out of the specials bin at Argos. A lot of us have been inside on official invitations in the past few years, and there’s a magical atmosphere there that we’re doing our best to put across in our DVD, using professional software and a contacts book that includes a...

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BiNS Advent Calendar 07 – Dec 12th – Christmas in ATVland

  ATV 1983 Christmas Ident See all of the advent calendar here. Don’t forget our 2008 Calendar – now on sale

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