50 Years of TV Weather

9:00pm - 9:40pm

BBC2 London & South East




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Subtitled, Widescreen





To mark the 50th anniversary of the first BBC weather broadcast
in 1954, this seasonal special delves deep into the archives to explore our
love-hate affair with Britain's unique climate. From the Big Freeze of 1963
to the devastating floods of 2003, from fog-bound football matches to
washed-out Wimbledons, from Hancock's rainy day blues to Victor Meldrew's
holiday horrors, this film reveals the high and lows of our national
weather.

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50 Years of TV Weather
9:00pm - 9:40pm
BBC2

To mark the 50th anniversary of the first BBC weather broadcast
in 1954, this seasonal special delves deep into the archives to explore our
love-hate affair with Britain's unique climate....... snipped

Yeah! Yeah! We get the idea.





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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:57:03 +0000 (UTC), Michael Mcneil wrote:

Yeah! Yeah! We get the idea.

B-) Not all that interesting programme. I was hoping for more about
how the presentation and accuracy (or not...) of weather forecasts on
TV had changed over the last 50 years. But no lots or archive stuff
with vague (some very vague) link to the weather.

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In uk.sci.weather on Fri, 31 Dec 2004 at 22:16:02, Dave Liquorice wrote
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:57:03 +0000 (UTC), Michael Mcneil wrote:

Yeah! Yeah! We get the idea.

B-) Not all that interesting programme. I was hoping for more about
how the presentation and accuracy (or not...) of weather forecasts on
TV had changed over the last 50 years. But no lots or archive stuff
with vague (some very vague) link to the weather.

I gave up on it after 5 minutes.
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Paul Hyett wrote:

In uk.sci.weather on Fri, 31 Dec 2004 at 22:16:02, Dave Liquorice wrote
:
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:57:03 +0000 (UTC), Michael Mcneil wrote:

Yeah! Yeah! We get the idea.

B-) Not all that interesting programme. I was hoping for more about
how the presentation and accuracy (or not...) of weather forecasts on
TV had changed over the last 50 years. But no lots or archive stuff
with vague (some very vague) link to the weather.

I gave up on it after 5 minutes.

I can beat that. One minute was enough for me. I decided I'd be better off
with the BBC1 film.

The best documentary shown on BBC in the past few years was made forty years
ago - The Great War - and the cretins couldn't show the repeat of that
series without messing about with the scheduling so you were never sure
when it would be on next. Five generally do better documentaries than BBC.
Their programme on the 1953 storm was far superior to the BBC2 version.

Graham