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The BBC are re-vamping the programme. They are, at present, developing an old building near Body Flight http://www.bodyflight.co.uk/ just outside Bedford. The new programme will be in a similar format to Top Gear.

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Mick F wrote:The BBC are re-vamping the programme. They are, at present, developing an old building near Body Flight http://www.bodyflight.co.uk/ just outside Bedford. The new programme will be in a similar format to Top Gear.

You heard it here first.

you mean a science and technology based situation comedy presented by <inapropriate word removed> ? Just what I want my license fee spent on.

I don't care who it's presented by, but if they can bring back a programme that appeals to young people and persuades them that science, engineering and innovation are worthwhile then it's fine by me.

I actually quite enjoy Top Gear, especially their mad cap schemes, the Space Reliant was best!

workhard wrote:you mean a science and technology based situation comedy presented by <inapropriate word removed> ? Just what I want my license fee spent on.

What's not to like? Sounds ace, they can have my licence fee for this and you can spend yours on Eastenders or the snooker or something.

Top Gear is highly entertaining. What ir's not is a motoring programme. Fifth gear do it better, but less humourously. The old Tomorrow's World was a great programme to encourage interest in science and technology.
IF they succeed in that then the tw*t factor is not an issue.

stewartpratt wrote:

workhard wrote:you mean a science and technology based situation comedy presented by <inapropriate word removed> ? Just what I want my license fee spent on.

What's not to like? Sounds ace, they can have my licence fee for this and you can spend yours on Eastenders or the snooker or something.

something = terrestrial coverage of Heineken Cup Rugby please. don't watch soaps or pastimes masquerading as sports.....

Won't be the same without Raymond Baxter in a blazer, club tie and slacks with a crease you could sharpen a knife on, telling us disbelievingly that by 2000 we'll all be chatting to thousands of people from a console that will take films and gather news.
But more importantly Mr Clive Sinclair has a C5 that will make your Ford Capri redundant by next year.

I'm guessing that it might be a BBC version of the 'gadget show'.

Although talking of TG, I reckon if it is meant to be an entertainment/humorous sci show then they could do worse than James May.

Si wrote:I'm guessing that it might be a BBC version of the 'gadget show'.

Although talking of TG, I reckon if it is meant to be an entertainment/humorous sci show then they could do worse than James May.

James May and Richard Hammond would be a good team and throw in someone like Carol Vaudeman to give it some real credability.
My kids love Myth Buster on Discovery. Which just helps to prove the fact its the explosions and the vile stuff that generates the interest. you can slip the science in behind that.

That chap who presents The Material World on Radio 4 would be good - very humerous and knowledgeable at the same time, although the jokes may go over the heads of a TV audience!

I used to love Tomorrow's World.

I remember them using this black box, putting a cup of water in it, turning on the thing, and hey presto the water came out hot in seconds... Looked like real magic it did.

It was a microwave. Real future making stuff it was. I loved it best when the practical work went wrong of course, and do you remember the April Fool once year, was it spagetti trees, or did I dream this from another place??


A re-make wont be teh same, but then again it shouldnt be either.


Its amazing how many things on Star Trek turned out more Tomorrow's World.... THey had 'communicators' (mobile phones) Phasors (stun guns), Blue Tooth (That strange thing in the ear....) Super Computors of course, Can you think of anything else, thats the 'norm today?


Mary

CDs
I remember they drove a vehicle over one and it still worked. Try that with a cassette or a 45!

Manx Cat wrote: and do you remember the April Fool once year, was it spagetti trees, or did I dream this from another place?

Richard Dimbleby on Panorama, I think.

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Yep googled and found this. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/date ... 819261.stm

(And I hadn't even learned to ride a bike in 1957 )

zenzinnia wrote:That chap who presents The Material World on Radio 4 would be good - very humerous and knowledgeable at the same time, although the jokes may go over the heads of a TV audience!

There's jokes on material world?

seriously, that's one good science show, I always get the podcasts and listen to them on public tranpsort.