Episode 3 Points of View

This week, misbehaving twins on Pointless,

mispronunciation on The One Show and missing the old BBC idents?

Some of you are. Welcome to your Points Of View.

First up, in its 30th anniversary year, and Casualty treated us

to a dramatic two-parter.

It had you gripped.

THEY GROAN

Last Saturday night saw the deadly conclusion of

a dramatic two-part episode and the death of fan favourite Caleb Knight,

portrayed by Richard Winsor, after three years on the show.

Cal?

Caleb?

Casualty will mark the end of its current series with

a special episode filmed in a totally unique way.

We caught up with the programme's series producer,

Erika Hossington, to hear about this ambitious project.

How could we close the 30th anniversary series?

Get the series creator, Paul Unwin, back to write a one-off episode.

Paul's pitch - can we do a one-shot episode? I said yes immediately.

So the episode starts with a big stunt.

I'm not going to tell you anything about that,

but it is very spectacular, in pure Casualty style.

And then we pick up, coming into the department,

with two girls from a local school,

a very nice school called St Abigail's,

who are coming in to be looked after and shown around by Duffy for

an hour - that's all they've got.

And so we very much see the department, the staff and all

the patients through the eyes of these two teenage girls.

We have shot it hand-held,

so it's single camera but with two operators.

So there are points in the episode where the camera is passed

between one operator to another.

Not content with that, we fly the camera men on wires,

so the camera man actually flies down from the first floor to

the ground floor and ends up back in admin and then picks up

a completely different part of the action.

You come away from it just thinking, "Oh, my goodness!

"How do these people do that, day in, day out, week in, week out?"

It really is a testament to the NHS,

and that really was our intention with this episode.

The special one-shot episode will air in July.

Laughter is proving to be the best medicine for you on Friday nights

with the 53rd series of Have I Got News For You.

Kirsty Young was the referee last Friday night with the usual

team captains, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton.

Do we know what mugwump really means, though?

-I told you what it meant.

-No, no, but I mean...

-Are you doubting the political editor of ITV?

-I think he is.

-It's extraordinary.

-He wins an award and he thinks he's Lord Rothermere!

But some of you thought Kirsty made a spectacle of herself.

Take a look at this. They took, of course, to editing it.

Let's take a look at what makes Jeremy happy. Little speeches.

-Do you think it's related?

-No.

-You answered that so rapidly.

Why was Batman... Refusing to answer?

Well, I mean, who cares, really?

Rarely have I seen anything on television is distracting as

Kirsty Young's antics with her glasses on Have I Got News For You.

On, off, on, off all the way through.

Have I got news for Kirsty Young!

You can now buy contact lenses and bifocals,

which alleviate the need for removing and replacing her glasses,

peering at her script and mumbling.

The series continues on BBC One at nine o'clock on Friday nights.

Kirsty's glasses weren't the only things causing

a distraction this week.

Last Saturday's international celebrity special of Pointless

featured some famous foreign friends, such as Jimmy Osmond and

the brothers Jedward.

The Dublin duo's antics did not impress and you flooded our mailbox with complaints.

Back in the '60s, people were watching...when you were on TV,

-people were watching.

-He's still on TV, rocking it!

-Ten seconds left.

-How do you pronounce Dalmatian?

-Focus!

-Ten seconds left.

# Yo, I'll tell you what I want What I really, really want

# So tell me what you want What you really, really want... #

Some subliminal message went into his head and he got the rap.

Well, certainly something's going on, yeah.

We didn't win the Eurovision, we didn't win that other talent show,

but, like, come on, we kind of won this show.

Moving on, the BBC One idents have certainly evolved since they were

created way back in 1953.

Now, after a decade of swimming in circles,

it is goodbye to TV's most famous hippos as BBC One has launched

a new set of idents to appear just before its TV shows.

The BBC commissioned acclaimed British photographer Martin Parr

to capture an evolving portrait of modern Britain in all its diversity.

Some of you have not been inspired.

We set some of our toughest viewers loose with their opinions on

the new BBC One idents.

Producers, be warned - this VT includes strong reactions.

-I don't like these.

-That's terrible.

That will just curdle your milk in your tea

when you're watching programmes.

Oh, no! It's terrible.

I hate the fact they're out of time with one another.

I just find the sound annoying, I find her shouting annoying,

I just find the whole thing... I'm sure she's a lovely lady, but, oh!

I just find them boring.

I think it's a beautiful scene and it sounds nice,

listening to birds, tweeting. Hearing those birds...

-Yeah.

-It's nice to hear that sound,

-it's a relaxing sound, you know.

-I just wanted to see the programme

cos I didn't realise it was an ident!

-I have to say, it's the first one that's showing young people.

-Yeah.

We've got quite a diverse country and,

so far, it's all been middle-aged people, I guess my age and upwards.

I like this one. This one's all right.

But I tend to focus too much on the dog cos that dog cracks me up

cos he's clearly not a trained dog, look! He's a puppy. He's off!

Go on, go find someone!

There's nothing BBC Oneish about it. There's nothing to tell you that's what you're watching.

At least they're wearing red.

I do love that one with the Indian dancers. I think that's great.

But only because it's colourful and bright.

It's colourful, it's bright, it shows diversity.

I don't know what Oneness means.

I don't know what it's all about.

I understand the concept - it's about bringing the country together

after what has been a divisive year,

but then the execution itself, it's just not very good.

They've not really done a very good job.

I think these new idents are boring and they're not creative enough.

They're not very successful as idents because you can't

really tell what they are.

There's just a breathtaking lack of creativity and form.

Does it represent the BBC in all its glory? Sadly, I don't think so.

I don't think they identify what the BBC is about.

I don't find them entertaining.

I don't find them making me want to watch them.

They're not interesting in that respect. They're not drawing me in.

-I don't want to find out more.

-I really...

I think they're all boring and dull.

I think refreshing is a good thing to be done,

and it should be done frequently, but these are just not...

They're just not working for me.

Over to BBC Two now and the finale of the hotly anticipated

second season of the critically acclaimed drama The Last Kingdom.

Based on Bernard Cornwell's bestselling novels,

The Lords Of The North and Sword Song,

the series has been delighting fans.

-I cannot let her go!

-She's our fortune! She's our reputation!

-If it's reputation you want, you can begin with killing me.

-Uhtred, no!

If you want your fortune, you must kill me.

High praise indeed,

but some of you were not happy with how the BBC scheduled the series.

-How am I to trust you?

-Lord, I'm weary of this.

YOU are weary of this?

Popping over to BBC Three and the improvised comedy series

Murder In Successville.

Each week, DI Sleet enlists the help of

a genuine celebrity psychic to solve the latest high-profile murder.

This week, it was Lorraine Kelly.

-Has there been a murder?

-What?

-Has there... Has there been a murder, sir?

-Ah, right.

-Sorry, sir, I've just always wanted to say that, sir.

-Sit down.

Thank you, sir.

This surreal murder mystery is in its third series and

continues to keep you streaming and downloading.

There was another crime scene over on The One Show and,

this time, the victim was the English language.

Poor pronunciation is always

a bugbear for us here at Points Of View,

and it was Matt Baker and Michelle Ackerley this time.

The race to become a nucular superpower was anything

but straightforward.

You got in touch to bemoan the word nuclear being wrongly pronounced

as nucular, which seems to be more and more common.

Britain's Nucular Bomb, The Inside Story,

next Wednesday at nine o'clock.

Over on Have I Got A Bit More News For You,

guest host Richard Osman fell foul of this one too.

The only way my mum would go to nucular war is if

-they cancelled Eggheads.

-No!

So Dean has had to get in touch with Points Of View twice this week.

Well, if, like Dean,

you spot something on the BBC that leaves you displeased or indeed

delighted, please do get in touch and let us know.

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We'll see you then.