It seems like the negative side effects for all those drug ads take up at least 95% of the commercial!
Exactly! i love the decorum that the announcers on daytime soaps exhibited. For example, Mel Brandt on The Doctors or Bill Wolff on Another World, they showed more class and decorum. Same thing with Ed Chandler on General Hospital, Alan Berns on Guiding Light, and Dan McCullough on As The World Turns. Those guys i can say were the big-voiced announcers on soaps.
And Jay Stewart and Charlie O'Donnell said much the same thing on TTD w/Wink Martindale: "Tic Tac Dough is a Jack Barry and Dan Enright production."
There was one time Jennings didn't keep his composure. I believe it was on 9/12/01 and he ran a segment showing, in a sign of unity, instead of Buckingham Palace playing "God Save the Queen," they played the U.S. National Anthem. It make Jennings get pretty choked up and made me bawl like a baby. My favorite moment of his ever.
I was in school and can remember listening to the NPR station and Bob Edwards announced that the Queen would allow her band to play The Star Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States, during the ceremony in tribute to the many who died. The whole classroom went silent. He didn't need to say anything else. That's why i miss him and Peter Jennings.
TZ is currently on Netflix....not sure if it's available on your side of the pond...the BD set is cheap here in the states considering what it sold for years back...
I'm not sure I really miss it, but I remember when broadcasting ended at midnight. Each station would sign off, often playing the National Anthem and then they would show the indian head test pattern. These days I'm lucky to stay awake until midnight.
Bumping this up: regarding baseball on television back when I was a boy, you had separate umpires for both leagues, National and American. Now, all umpires are MLB umpires.
I mess the absence of social commentary. Take the new Star Trek on CBS - half the episodes take forever to get to the point (characters full of guilt and let you know about it) - whereas the old Star Trek's (even Next Gen) - were great from the start - told a great story in under an hour.
Well, there is just as much, but since the stories are being told in multi-episode arcs, it sometimes comes later in the story. I personally think this is much more rewarding viewing (when done right).
Key phrase - "when done right" and I fully agree. I do like the new CBS Star Trek - but sometimes I wish they would get to the point quicker.
