Episode 15 Points of View

Good afternoon, and welcome to Points Of View.

Eastenders have been at it again.

With edgy storylines comes offence, and the latest plot concerns

a baby being taken into care,

which has left social workers fuming.

Don't touch my baby! No, Lexi. SHE SOBS AND SCREAMS

Give her back her baby!

No! Give me back my baby!

Please! No, Lexi!

Please don't do this to me. Please don't do this to me!

So, the writers needed to put pen to paper,

and give us their explanation.

Next, strictly come judging.

Becoming a new judge on the BBC's most-loved show is never easy,

and the new Strictly judge, Darcey Bussell,

seems to be winding some viewers up.

But it is NOT her criticisms,

because they're apparently a breath of fresh air.

It's actually her unusual form of punctuation.

Feel the music. Make it help you, yah,

cos that's your strength, yeah? Yeah?

It's the feeling of pulling your shoulder blades down, yeah?

Don't get stiff on us, yah?

Use your whole body, breathe all the way through the moves.

And then you'll be fine, yah?

Yeah? Yes. Yeah?

-Strengthen that core, yes?

-Yes.

Because then you'll get a much cleaner hip - pow, pow, pow! Yeah?

Now, whilst we're in the mood for a spot of physical exercise,

what do we think of Hunted?

There is certainly an excess of running about in that,

and it's been seen as a replacement for the well-loved Spooks,

which ended last October.

So, has it managed to out-espionage its predecessor,

or is that a mission impossible?

You're late.

Eddie had trouble sleeping.

What does Turner think happened?

Hasan got loose.

The guard killed him before succumbing to his own injuries.

That'll work.

This has something to do with those steps you fell down?

Didn't you serve together in Afghanistan?

They killed her to get to you, didn't they?

To flush you out?

That sounds like a no, then.

Let's have a bit of music, shall we, to cheer ourselves up?

Various BBC channels have been

airing tributes to The Beatles this week,

on the 50th anniversary of the release of their first single.

62, damn, a monumentous year in Liverpool,

elevated and changed so many people's lives.

Getting off the plane,

in New York, to a screaming mob,

that we didn't expect.

We're in the world of Sgt Pepper,

and kaftans and incense,

and San Francisco,

and all that kind of thing.

The older people who were expecting

Morecambe and Wise,

or a British variety show,

wouldn't get it, and, I think, in a way, quite rightly,

would be annoyed.

The call to love me do, falling on deaf ears for some, then.

But, BBC Two is hoping we can be encouraged to take a national pride

in other home-grown, or should that be home-built, achievements.

They put Evan Davis into a hole in the ground - now, now -

to look at the ambitious project to bore out a new rail network,

deep under London, in the programme Built In Britain.

And the reception was very good.

And here's my thought. Should we be doing

a lot more of this kind of work?

Now, I know I'm biased, because I like it,

but isn't there a case for investing

two or three times as much in infrastructure,

simply to get Britain ready for the future?

Something to cheer up Evan Davis, then. Praise for his programme.

Sadly, the little girl you're about to see has been upset

by her favourite channel, because it failed to show her birthday card.

# Happy birthday

# Everyone have fun

# So how old are you today?

On my birthday, I was be three.

My mummy sent a card.

It didn't get on the telly.

My mum spent ages to making it.

It was a really good card.

Why wasn't it on?

I'm a little bit sad.

Welcome to birthday time on Thursday. The first card is for Grace...

We split our cards into two age ranges

and try and get a balance between boys and girls.

We try to be as fair as possible in our selection of cards,

but unfortunately, some have to be filtered out

because they do not meet our criteria.

Please don't stick onto the cards any commercial logos

or non-CBeebies characters.

Don't put on the card the child's full name...

Send the card in at least four weeks before the big day...

Make sure the photo is appropriate to be shown on TV -

seeing their smiling face is the best.

And most importantly,

write down the date on the back of the birthday card -

this is crucial information and a lot of people forget.

We're sorry, Naz Angel, that we didn't get to show your card

this year and we hope you had a lovely day anyway.

I would encourage anyone wishing to send a card into us

at CBeebies to check out all the guidelines on our website.

We show at least 60% of the cards sent into us

at CBeebies, so do keep them coming,

because we do love celebrating our audience's special day.

So, you saw the executive there, and before him,

young Naz Angel, who is a CBeebies viewer and a total star.

Now, at eight, Carly Johnson is a bit older

and whilst it's not categorised

specifically as a children's programme,

she has been enjoying the Planet Earth Live spin-off series,

currently airing in the very family-friendly slot

of Sunday afternoons. Or she WAS enjoying it, until this.

We have two massive males in this pack,

who are very, very specialised in killing young baby elephant.

We have seen their tracks around this area.

Save The Elephants have been working here for nearly 20 years.

David knows the park well.

He heads straight for the area where Emily and her calf were last seen.

There's no sign of calf, just a pride of very full lions.

Let's stop that right there, but Carly can take up the story.

I was watching Planet Earth Live with my mum and...

There was this...

These really cute elephants on it,

and then this one elephant

went missing and it showed a picture

of a lion, then it showed a picture

of a lion's hoof.

I mean, an elephant's hoof,

hanging out of the ground

and all bones

and it really made me feel upset.

Every programme maker at the BBC has to fill in an editorial

compliance form on which they have to list anything that may cause

problems for viewers, from bad language to strong political views,

every possible area of sensitivity is listed

and number 17 on that list is disturbing images.

The team did note the elephant sequence here,

but they also pointed out that there is not blood or gore.

A decision is then taken on whether the section should be edited out

or if a warning should be given before the programme,

but neither was done.

Carly, you are proof that perhaps it should have been.

No such problems with holiday programmes.

But hang on a minute, "What holiday programmes?", I hear you ask.

An excellent idea,

you'd have thought somebody would have pounced on that.

Well, I think we are always keen to cover holidays as a subject area,

because we appreciate that it's often the high point of a person's year.

Watchdog routinely will cover holiday items and we did have

a programme called the Secret Tourist a couple of years ago on BBC One.

It is an area that we're continuing to develop into and think about,

so hopefully, there'll be good news for the viewers next year

with another title.

So the pouncing has occurred and you will get your programme, Belinda.

Let's see if we can't provide the same level

of customer satisfaction for Nicky and Andrew.

It all comes down to the limited amount of capacity available

to broadcast our services.

We already use the capacity we have to broadcast BBC Three

and BBC Four to also broadcast the children's services CBeebies

and CBBC during the day.

We could buy more capacity to broadcast additional BBC +1 services

on satellite, but we probably couldn't get enough capacity to

make those available to all Freeview viewers in all parts of the country.

The cost of broadcasting +1 versions of BBC One would also be significant.

Today, we broadcast 18 different versions of BBC One

and four different versions of BBC Two,

but of course we don't want anyone to miss our programmes.

It's great that technologies like digital video recorders

and the iPlayer have made it possible

to pause live TV and record favourite programmes.

I see, so we have to create DIY +1 channels by using iPlayer

and hunting out our own repeats. Fine.

We mentioned Strictly earlier and along with many other entertainment productions,

they're busy preparing their Christmas specials now.

We have the BBC's Controller of Entertainment Commissioning,

Mark Linsey, in the hotseat for an interview special

in a couple of weeks' time for you.

Do let us know what you'd like Mark grilled about.

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