Episode 3 Points of View

Hello and welcome to Points Of View in the weather in Glasgow,

and if it's good enough for Prince Charles,

it's good enough for us.

Aha!

Now this is BBC Scotland HQ here,

a TV powerhouse which has brought us things like

BBC Four's Terry Pratchett - Choosing To Die

and the children's favourite Nina And The Neurons.

But it's actually a programme that is not being made any more

by BBC Scotland Drama

which has got many of you hot under the collar.

The way you shot at me marks you as a loathsome cad.

Steady, Garrow. I could challenge you.

-This is torment.

-For now, yes.

-But given time...

-William, there is no hope.

You are ill-prepared.

Be reckless with your own life, not your clients'.

-But you do not own me!

-If this association is no longer beneficial...

Very well.

So the decision has been made and it is final on both counts.

But they are going to call "action" on something else

in BBC Scotland Drama and that is Waterloo Road.

From now on, it is being made in Greenock.

The migration of 50 hours of Waterloo Road

will bring £25 million to Scotland

over the next two years, creating 230 jobs.

This all adds to the statistic

that Scotland has the highest level of film, TV

and animation production in the UK outside London.

This year will also see the return of David Morrissey's Field Of Blood

and next month, filming starts on a new two-part drama

starring Douglas Henshall called Shetland,

which will be shot on location on the Shetland Isles and in Glasgow.

I'm prepared to take the rap for what I've done.

And also from the streets of Glasgow,

BBC Three drama Lip Service has returned by popular demand.

Jason Isaacs will be back in the Highlands later this year

as flawed detective Jackson Brodie

to film another series of Case Histories.

Suffice to say, they are busy.

Now, you find me here in the Eggheads studio,

the home of the BBC Two quiz show which I host,

and it's also made here in Glasgow.

But our tea-time tussle was rather overshadowed this week

by that elder statesman of quiz shows, Mastermind,

who held their final on Friday night,

and in the run-up to the final there was quite a controversy.

Mastermind has been testing the nation's grey cells since 1972,

but 40 years on,

some viewers think contestants are exploiting a loophole.

On Mastermind,

if two contestants at the end of the two rounds

end up with the same score,

the number of questions that they've passed on

is taken into account,

and the one with the fewer passes is deemed to be the winner.

Smith.

Smith.

'When it came to the end of the programme,

'he and another contestant had the same score,'

and he won because he'd had fewer passes

because of the fact that he'd said a different word to "pass".

Well, I did say that the passes matter a lot.

First place, 27 points and one pass, George Ferzoco.

'I felt desperately sorry for the other contestant

'who ended up coming second.

'So, BBC,'

can you tighten the rules up so this doesn't happen again?

If a contestant chooses not to pass

and give an answer that is incorrect,

that will cost them time,

as John has to correct each incorrect answer,

as was the case here.

Which global arts prize was he awarded in 1990 by the Japanese Art Association?

Smith.

Praemium Imperiale.

It did cost him time.

He answered less questions than the contestant he was tied with

and, as a point of information,

if he had said "pass" at each of those occasions,

he still would have had less passes than the other contestant.

This has not been an issue in the past.

We do not anticipate it being an issue in the future,

and as somebody has played the game within the rules,

we are not going to change the rules.

It may be within the rules to say "Smith" instead of "pass",

but in my opinion it's gamesmanship

and it's not within the spirit of Mastermind,

and to me it's just not cricket.

With intelligence comes ingenuity,

but not enough to force a change in the rules.

Now, I couldn't resist this children's area here,

which is apparently where all the creative types

of children's TV get their ideas.

All Over The Place, for example, being spawned from this very room.

That madcap road trip covers Britain,

but Planet Earth Live, which started this week,

goes somewhat further afield for a rather more grown-up audience.

Planet Earth Live is the most ambitious

live wildlife broadcast ever undertaken by anyone.

We're covering six countries in five continents.

We really wanted to give a sense that we're all around the world.

Maybe a little too ambitious for the Hamster?

He's certainly getting a mauling in the viewers' lion's den.

Whoa!

Wahhh!

Richard Hammond, I'm sure, surprises a few people,

and surprised me at first,

but what a lot of people don't know,

Richard has always had a fascination with wildlife.

In this show, he wants to lift the bonnet on nature

and I would encourage people to leave their preconceptions

of the petrolhead behind and give him a chance.

Trying to get footage from around the world,

from some very remote field locations,

is quite a feat, and we have the most amazing hand-picked team

of technical professionals.

This series is designed to be really broad appeal,

really mainstream, something that people can share together,

that families can watch together.

Jewel eventually returned to the base of the tree

and called her cubs down.

'We're not doing generic stories about

'"Here are some lions, here are some elephants."

'We're following individual animals.'

We've seen nature writing us the most spectacular script

and, as the executive producer,

I can safely say I have no idea what's going to happen.

So "Planet Earth Partly Live" on TV,

but a bit livelier on Facebook and Twitter.

Now, high-quality programmes coming out of this building,

as you can see from the metalwork here,

and it's BBC Four's obsession with metalwork

which has got the Points Of View message board buzzing.

That's where the royal workshops were.

There's just a bunch of trees there now.

And looking at the site now,

we get a much better sense, actually,

of the distance between the royal workshops

and the palace itself.

It's close enough for the king to just stroll over

and meet with his armourers if he wished to,

but at the same time,

it's far enough away so that the king and the palace

aren't disturbed by the incredible clamour and noise

of the armourers at work.

Not only the noise, but the smell of burning charcoal and fuming mercury.

It would have been a noisy, nasty place.

And BBC Scotland celebrates its metal too.

Glasgow's very proud of its steel-making history,

which is why its reception desk here

is actually made from a two-ton girder.

And if Glasgow is synonymous with steel-making,

Italy is synonymous with food,

and the Two Greedy Italians are still hungry.

One time, Gennaro, I was eating near the harbour,

20 of those.

And I was taking one by one and nibbling, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

-And the other side, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

-Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

Just like playing mouth harmonica.

So you were playing, "Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!"

HE GRUNTS

-No, you do that noise. I didn't.

-OK, all right.

When they're not eating,

Italians are being romantic or tragic or both.

At least in Shakespeare they are.

If we are looking for the political message at the heart of the play,

forget Antony and Cleopatra.

Shakespeare is more interested in Octavius.

He outmanoeuvres everyone and plays according to a new book of rules.

Culture vultures are at odds over that one, then,

and talking of culture,

The Culture Show is made here in Glasgow too.

Now, one programme that has united viewers in praise

is Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Praise, of course, for the medical teams

who've been on display in the programme,

but also for the production team.

Her doctor Anthony Michalski and the surgical team

are reviewing her scan to see if the surgery's been successful.

And you can see that she had

a large left foramen of Luschka recurrence, which has been resected,

and now what she has is a new, more anterior lesion.

I'd rather hope that after this last operation,

it would have been the first time where we would have got her

into a position where she was surgically clear, or scanned clear.

She's never been that since we saw her.

This is just a recurrent phenomenon,

and it's not actually treating a tumour,

it's treating the scan.

One feels one's chasing shadows a bit here.

Another rare quality, according to Barbara Eley,

is correct pronunciation,

and it is some-THINK that gets her very annoyed.

Hi, Points Of View.

Many TV personalities use the words "any-THINK", "some-THINK",

"every-THINK" and "no-THINK".

There is no K on the end of these words.

I find it very irritating

and wonder why BBC chiefs do not notice this

and eradicate it from our screens.

Please help me in my mission to clean up this abomination.

I can tell you're angry, Barbara.

Now, if there's something winding you up,

to get it off your chest, why not e-mail us?

You can write to us.

You can call us, local rate, from a landline,

although mobiles may cost more.

Or hop on the message board, which is always lively.

From us here in Glasgow, goodbye.

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