I don't know if anyone here is interested in the BBC Genome project. I certainly am, and it's caused a bit of a stir in the UK.
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk It's the culmination of several years' work to digitise every issue of the Radio Times between 1923 and 2009 and, therefore, features everything that was ever planned to appear on BBC television and radio over 87 years, as it was billed in the listings. It's absolutely fascinating, of course, for the opportunity to see the first appearances of this - http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/cbe657c4a9c043ce8c85b7e9b66a2421 - and this - http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8f81c193ba224e84981f353cae480d49 - and so on. There are some great novelties, too, and broadcasting landmarks. I love this - http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/46dedacfa77c4ccbb33d63c1cab2113b And of course you get to see the context in which these programmes were originally broadcast. Here's the planned BBC1 line-ups for Apollo 11... http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1969-07-20 http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1969-07-21 ...where as you can see the coverage nestles along the likes of The Black and White Minstrel Show (yes) and other massively mundane programmes. Of course the coverage ended up not being like that because the moon landing was delayed until about 3am our time (and on ITV, David Frost's programme ended up lasting about ten hours and Englebert Humperdinck collapsed with the exhaustion of it all). The listings are a guide to what was planned to be broadcast, not what was actually broadcast. Indeed, the disaster of Apollo 13 means we were denied this primetime spectacular - http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a31e3a69907a4688bc34895b8d503877 The listings are also scanned from tatty old magazines and so there are plenty of transcription errors (http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ee629f64afc443b581ed491a929297e8) and the Beeb are inviting people to correct them. And yes, they have said they expect the Doctor Who billings to be fixed immediately. For me, having spent the last 25 years curating a collection of about a thousand copies of the Radio Times* I should be annoyed this is now all out there but I love it, it's great to have it all to look through, and I hope posters here may find something to pique their interest. Is there anything at all similar with regards the US networks, I wonder? * I never liked that episode of Seinfeld where they discussed George's dad having a TV Guide collection. What's wrong with that?! -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
