0:00:13 > 0:00:15Hello, I'm Robert Webb.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18Welcome to Great TV Mistakes.
0:00:18 > 0:00:22Now, I know what you're saying - "But people in telly don't make mistakes.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24"They're all perfect, like you, Rob."
0:00:24 > 0:00:26Not true. Everyone makes mistakes.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29You just called me Rob, for instance.
0:00:29 > 0:00:33And no-one but no-one calls me Rob unless I give them permission. Understand?!
0:00:33 > 0:00:36Don't worry. People in telly are just like you.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40They mess up. A crew member appears in the back of shot, a prop changes colour,
0:00:40 > 0:00:43someone commissions another series of My Family.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Mistakes get made, and that's where we come in.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49We find these embarrassing errors and make a show out of them.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53Some people might call that schadenfreude. I just call it funny.
0:00:53 > 0:00:54Enjoy.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59I'm sorry, the party got a little out of hand.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01People your age, they have finished college...
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Oh, the poor little rich girls of The OC.
0:01:03 > 0:01:08Here's Hayley, tidying up after another crazy party.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12Well, I say tidying up, but what Amanda Rugetti is actually doing
0:01:12 > 0:01:15is picking up tiny pieces of invisible rubbish.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19Look, she's dropping little bits of air into that bin bag.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24That, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call method acting...
0:01:24 > 0:01:27if your method is piss-poor.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30You know, this scene was filmed eight years ago
0:01:30 > 0:01:34but unsurprisingly, she only finished tidying the room last Thursday.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37To Albert Square and that live anniversary episode.
0:01:37 > 0:01:45And Stace and Bradley are talkin' abaht 'fings with Max and Scott when Scott forgets his lines.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48You held the fact from the pl... Look, it's a motive, you've held it against the public...
0:01:48 > 0:01:51- Look, we all have... - Well, I'll explain that.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54Oh, dear, no retakes here.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56This is live.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Oh, he's gone again. Oh, tricky business this live telly.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Bless him. I'd leave it, Scott, it ain't worth it!
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Received and acknowledged, sir. Picard out.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10Jean Luc Picard, ever the stern- faced model of professionalism.
0:02:10 > 0:02:16Except when he goes through the turbo lift doors and has a quick girn. You missed it, didn't you?
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Don't worry, here it is again.
0:02:21 > 0:02:26He just boldly girned where no man has girned before.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31- More odd goings on in Buffy. - The werewolf!
0:02:31 > 0:02:35A werewolf has gone AWOL and they need to find him/it quickly.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39But Giles isn't wearing his glasses.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Oh, he is. Problem solved.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Problem unsolved! And solved again.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48I think we're sorted. That werewolf is history. My mistake! The glasses are.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Kate must have a tiny vagina.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Here we are in that city where there's all that sex.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59And the girls are in the khazi doing lady things.
0:02:59 > 0:03:00Sometimes you just know.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02With the right match, its fate.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Sarah Jessica Parker's sorting her hair out.
0:03:05 > 0:03:11She's tying it out in a scrunchie, but that's SJP hair, so it'll need special restraints.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15So she straps it down twice with the same scrunchie.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17But spin on, cos it was all worth it.
0:03:17 > 0:03:18Now she looks lovely
0:03:18 > 0:03:22and not at all like a Yorkshire terrier with a Croydon facelift. Super.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26Oh, look, it's only 10. How nice.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29- There's no coffee.- The Gilmore Girls, and Lorelai is chatting to
0:03:29 > 0:03:32Luke as he tries to fix a toaster by shoving a screwdriver into it.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36In a minute, he's going to try and fix the waste disposal
0:03:36 > 0:03:38by sticking his winkie into it.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42See how he goes to get coffee, leaving the screwdriver in the hole,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45and when he returns, screwdriver gone.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48Oh, there it is by the side of the toaster.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52Right, where's that waste disposal?
0:03:52 > 0:03:56- Anyway, I just wanted to say how wonderful...- Back to Friends, and a special guest appearance
0:03:56 > 0:04:02by Susan Sarandon, the thinking person's MILF, playing a hard drinking, chain smoking actress.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06Ever the pro, Susan manages to cram both into this scene.
0:04:06 > 0:04:07Chain smoker.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10Hard drinker.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Chain smoker.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14I hope my fingers are that nimble when I'm 80.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19All great telly starts with a script.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22You need writers who can really write words good comma,
0:04:22 > 0:04:27and make the things we actors and presenters say in their mouths have, like, pizzazz and that.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Yes, script and story are crucial.
0:04:29 > 0:04:35Confused story lines and dialogue, and character errors can spoil an entire series in seconds.
0:04:35 > 0:04:40That's why broadcasters spend enormous amounts of money hiring professional writers and executives
0:04:40 > 0:04:44to ensure this doesn't happen and why they get so disappointed when it still does.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46Take a look at this little lot.
0:04:48 > 0:04:5324, and here's Jack Bauer giving his exact location to headquarters.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57We're at 21408 Kipling, North Hollywood.
0:04:57 > 0:05:05That's 21408 Kipling, North Hollywood. 21408. Now, spin on,
0:05:05 > 0:05:13and the car is here. But spin on again, and we can see they've pulled up outside 21048.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16Well, that's no good. Kiefer's at 21408.
0:05:16 > 0:05:21But hang on, he is here, at 21048,
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- and not... - 21408 Kipling, North Hollywood.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Where he said he was a moment ago.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30Still, it's only the Secret Service in a race against time to save lives,
0:05:30 > 0:05:32nothing important, like a pizza delivery.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Here's Ashes To Ashes,
0:05:36 > 0:05:38the disappointing follow-up to Life On Mars.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40It's July 1981.
0:05:40 > 0:05:41And a shocked Keeley Hawes
0:05:41 > 0:05:44has just found herself mysteriously back in the 1980s.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48She's trying to find out the date from Gene Hunt's steam-driven computer.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Let's check it. 17th July 1981.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54There's nothing on this hard drive but the time and date.
0:05:54 > 0:06:01Spin on, and later, in her new '80s flat, we see that she's marked her arrival date as July 20th.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03She's lost three days.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06There are easier ways to lose three days, Keeley.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Try drinking five pints of gin.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Works for me.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Here's an IT blunder from serial-killing drama, Dexter.
0:06:16 > 0:06:22As Rudy Cooper opens an e-mail from frozenbarbie@hotmail.web...
0:06:24 > 0:06:26..presses reply,
0:06:26 > 0:06:30and suddenly he's writing back to frozenbarbie@hotmail.com.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34Don't worry, though, thanks to the confusing power of telly,
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Frozen Barbie still gets the e-mail anyway.
0:06:37 > 0:06:42All's well that ends well. Except for the fact that he kills her and cuts her into tiny pieces.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48Here's an early clip from Star Trek: The Next Generation
0:06:48 > 0:06:53and new Number One, Will Riker, is looking for the holodeck.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55The computer tells him it's...
0:06:55 > 0:06:57'The next hatchway on your right.'
0:06:57 > 0:06:59- You mean left, surely?- Thank you.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03- He's bluffing. Riker knows that the new Enterprise computer is an idiot. - I do.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05And goes left instead.
0:07:05 > 0:07:11In the future, many things will be different, but apparently, men still don't trust directions from a woman.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Writing a long-running show like Frasier is tricky,
0:07:16 > 0:07:19having to remember the characters' likes and dislikes
0:07:19 > 0:07:22and relatives. They're a nightmare, even when they're not real.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Just listen to Frasier's dad Martin in series one.
0:07:25 > 0:07:26I never had a brother.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Marty Crane never had a brother.
0:07:29 > 0:07:34- Oh, I've got the feeling he would have liked one, though, and by series five, he did.- There he is!
0:07:34 > 0:07:39Well! This is so exciting! You two must have so much to talk about. Uncle Walt, hello!
0:07:39 > 0:07:43That's either a mistake or someone needs a psychiatrist.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47- Marty.- Walt.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52US drama Fringe, and this bonkers boffin has invented a camera
0:07:52 > 0:07:55that can photograph a corpse
0:07:55 > 0:08:00and capture the last image seen by a person before their death.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03- Ready?- I know, it's rubbish, but go with it.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07Let's listen to the doc's advice.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11Goggles, all of you. Do not look directly into the light.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14- MIMICS:- "Goggles, all of you. Do not look directly into the light."
0:08:14 > 0:08:18Got it. Camera, dangerous. Goggles, essential.
0:08:18 > 0:08:22But spin on through the rubbish, and see what happens.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25They've taken them off. Oi! And you! Put them back on.
0:08:25 > 0:08:29The doctor said keep the goggles on while the camera is still flashing.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33Doc, tell them to... not you, as well. I give up. This programme is stupid.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Thanks to all of our contributors for being so sloppy.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41It's a good job it's telly and nothing more important
0:08:41 > 0:08:43like a paper round, otherwise you'd have been fired.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Bye-bye.
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