dennis nortons it'll be alright in the afternonn

[Marv Orange]

itv news just now as it was flipping between vt heard the reporter say..completely fucked that up'


that is all.

[buttgammon]

Lovely stuff! I love a bit of fucking in the afternoon.

[chocky909]

The beauty of Sky+ and other PVRs is that they are constantly recording a 1/2 hour buffer. This means if you ever get any weirdness like that you can rewind or hit record and save it forever.

You were so excited by it, you messed the thread title up badly. I don't see this thread taking off though. Bloopers are dull unless you get to see them. I suppose this could turn into another YouTube thread with newsreaders swearing.

[Marv Orange]

This needed a fucking thread didn't it?

nope it didnt

[Ambient Sheep]

Well maybe it did.  I've told it on here before, but here's one I saw myself a couple of years ago:

This happened on Richard and Judy.  They had some female basketball champion on, and also they were plugging some exhibition of posh handbags that was on in London(?) that week.   So at the end of the show, they put basketball lady outside in their car park, and said that if she could get two out of three baskets she could have one of the handbags (Louis Vuitton, I think).

Well she got the first one through the net no problem but, you guessed it, she got an attack of nerves, and fouled up both of the other two throws.  Cue lots of "ahhhhhh"s, sympathy, and Richard burbling on in the background about "oh well we'll probably give it to you anyway" as the credits rolled.

Then, the production company's logo appeared at the end and we heard, mixed fairly well down but clearly audible (even without checking the Sky+ box I had at the time), an exasperated "FUCK it!!!" from basketball lady.

Great fun, and I was amazed that I never heard any fuss about it, or indeed never heard about it ever again.  But it happened, honest.  Nowadays of course it'd be Youtube'd in minutes; has anyone tried searching for this one?

[TC Raymond]

During an episode of BBC Look East a few years back, the sound on a videotaped report faded and we heard a technician (I assume) say, in a broad Norfolk burr...

"You're a fucking nuisance you are, you're a right bastard!"

When the report ended, anchorman Stewart White said "Well, we're sorry if a bit of colourful language crept in there..."

Priceless.

[Howj Begg]

i remember a great extended blunder on citv years ago. it was with that blonde girl in the early 90s. it was the end of the show and the huge furry puppets were on, as was a pop group. the show ended, but the programme didn't change, and the camera stayed on the scene. after about 40 seconds, the blokes inside the furry puppet costumes emerged, and everyone started chatting about how badly the show had gone. the programme still didn't change. the camera didn't move. i couldn't believe what i was watching. after about 4 mins someone realised they were still on air and the presenter went white. suddenly we were in the ads.

i really wish i could see it again. this is, without a doubt, the biggest cock-up i've ever seen on tv, but no one has ever anthologised it.

[TC Raymond]

During a football match a couple of years ago, televised on a Saturday afternoon, a supporter took advantage of his close proximity to one of the crowd microphones to shout...

"COME ON YOU FUCKING CUNTS!"

Not big, not clever, but it made me laugh. And I'm not even a football fan.

[rudi]

Then you're probably not aware that that's what the "FC" stands for in team names, so, if anything, he was just being a slave to accuracy.

[aaaaaaaaaargh!]

During a football match a couple of years ago, televised on a Saturday afternoon, a supporter took advantage of his close proximity to one of the crowd microphones to shout...

"COME ON YOU FUCKING CUNTS!"

Not big, not clever, but it made me laugh. And I'm not even a football fan.

Putting microphones near anything sporting, apart from maybe the commentators, is a bad idea.  Roger Federer got in the act during the Wimbledon final uttering a nice and audible "shit" when the BBC put a mic near him to pick up his argument with the umpire following a disputed decision. 

Another memorable one for me was when Nottingham Forest were playing in Europe in the early to mid 90s.  The BBC put a microphone on the touchline so the listeners at home could hear Frank Clark's tactical genius at first hand.  Cue a bellowed "PLAY THE FUCKING THING SHORT", which an embarrassed John Motson sort of skirted over by saying "Frank Clark wants Forest to play a short passing game here."

Again, not big, not clever, but unexpected swearing rules.

[Detective John Kimble]

Speaking of tennis outbursts, there was Greg Rusedski just absolutely turning the air blue at Wimbledon a few years ago against Roddick between games. 

"I can't do anything if the crowd fucking calls it. It's not Davis Cup here. You (should) say a warning, replay the point.  Absolutely fucking ridiculous. At least replay the point. Fucking ridiculous. Fucking ridiculous. It's fucking ridiculous. Frigging ridiculous. Some wanker in the crowd changes the whole match and you allow it to happen.  Well done. Well done. Fucking shit."

I thought he was rather justified in being angry at said wanker in the crowd, although he probably shouldn't have swore that much.  John McEnroe was commentating at the time and when asked for his thoughts, he said "I was thinking `5,000, 10,000, 15,000... " 

Also during the World Cup before England's game with Ecuador, when they went to the tunnel a quite clear "C'MON BOYS LET'S FUCKIN' DO THIS YEAH!" was heard from some England player (Might have been Lampard, or Joe Cole).

[ozziechef]

itv news just now as it was flipping between vt heard the reporter say..completely fucked that up'


that is all.

[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GDT4ymW2g-c[/youtube]

I quite liked this one too where the news reader didn't realise she had gone live 2 mins earlier than expected:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkTV2Jza0xc[/youtube]

[Marv Orange]

nice one and who said the interent was only good for porn

[The Mumbler]

The Radio 2 travel reporter was meaning to say "blow-dry" just now and said something else entirely. They moved on very very swiftly.

It's Radcliffe on afternoons this week. With Liza Tarbuck as the 'possee'.

[Italian Sexuality]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTDAW-Wbf08[/youtube]

The original classic.

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

But this meant to be a thread about real life news fuck ups, not clips from Drop The Dead Donkey.

[23 Daves]

I once witnessed a Meridian newscaster collapse during a broadcast.  An item was playing, and when they finally cut back to the studio he was slumped across the newsdesk motionless, with his female co-host looking utterly confused and frightened saying "Ah, we'll just quickly go over to the weather!"

By the time the weather was over he was back up again, looking dazed and saying "Ah, I'm really really sorry about that, it's just with the lights in the studio it does get very hot in here..."

I was watching the TV with my housemate at the time, and he and I just looked at each other in stunned silence.  At first, we honestly thought he'd had a heart attack live on air.  It can't have been anything serious, though, because he was back on air the following night thanking everyone for their emails of concern.  What a pro!  Although if it genuinely was because he felt too hot in the studio, what a weed.

[Italian Sexuality]

But this meant to be a thread about real life news fuck ups, not clips from Drop The Dead Donkey.

Meh.

[Ambient Sheep]

Ah well, if we're doing presenters about to go on air, then I feel obliged to dig up this one again, having looked for it for so long, before recently being given it by weirdbeard in the Hazy Television Memories thread.

It's 45 seconds before Guy Michelmore goes on air to do a trailer for that night's Newsroom South-East...

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGea7D6EBJI[/youtube]


I also quite like this one - the BBC Breakfast show That Would Not Die:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtpP9ca96yY[/youtube]


EDIT: One more that I've only just remembered - no video, unfortunately.  Happened back in the mid-90s, when I used to watch the BBC News early in the morning before going to work.  They used to cut to Look East for the local news every half-an-hour (I think), and more than once, presenter Cathy Le Feuvre would look a bit bleary, untidy, or just generally worse-for-wear, especially on the first bulletin of the morning if I should happen to catch it.

Then came the day when I was watching that first bulletin, which I wasn't usually up in time for, London said the immortal words "And now the news where you are" and it cut to...an empty desk.  For the whole five minutes.  So, it appears, neither was she!  And it must have been a damn good bit of oversleeping (or traffic jamming), because 30 minutes later they didn't opt-out and we got the London local news instead.

Surprisingly, she still had a job the next morning...