Episode 8 Points of View

This week, the filming habit that's been driving you round the bend

and the Fab Four documentary that hit all the right notes.

Welcome to the show that tells the BBC's programme-makers in there

exactly what you think of what they're doing.

Welcome to your Points Of View.

First this week, the event that garnered

a peak audience of nearly 15 million viewers last Sunday night and

became the biggest non-sporting live programme in the BBC iPlayer's history.

Held less than two weeks after the terrorist attack at

an Ariana Grande concert in the city, One Love Manchester included

performances from Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and Take That.

Ariana also returned to the stage herself, joined, at one point,

by a local school choir.

# Now that he's gone My heart is missing something

# It's time to push my pride away... #

There was much love for One Love Manchester.

And you can still catch the entire concert on the BBC iPlayer.

Now, it wasn't just One Love Manchester that BBC One

beamed live to our living rooms last Sunday.

Earlier in the day,

the channel broadcast a service for the day of Pentecost.

Led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby,

the celebration of the beginning of the Christian Church came live

from Holy Trinity Church in Folkestone.

And you were full of praise for the service.

And the celebration proved particularly poignant for some,

coming just the morning after the attack on innocent people

in the country's capital.

This year marks, would you believe,

50 years since the release of a legendary album by The Beatles.

BBC Two marked the anniversary last weekend with

a one-off documentary which saw composer Howard Goodall pick apart

the production techniques used to create the LP that would

go on to provide the soundtrack to the Summer of Love.

Ringo isn't fulfilling the traditional role of rock or

pop drummer as of 1967.

The tom-tom fills he introduces are actually

a lot more like the way percussion works in classical music.

And you loved it. Yeah, yeah, yeah!

In fact, if anything,

you felt the show deserved to be more than a one-hit wonder.

From the band that brought us Strawberry Fields Forever to

the fields of the Cotswolds now.

Coming from the National Trust's Sherborne Estate, this year,

the three-week-long wildlife extravaganza that is

Springwatch has seen Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan and

Martin Hughes-Games joined by new presenter Gillian Burke.

They are different, the male and the female.

The male, on the right, is slightly smaller and, occasionally,

you get a glimpse of this gorgeous orange hindwing.

You have been delighted to see Springwatch

bounce back onto our screens.

Yet, for some, the focus this year has fallen too much on

the presenters rather than the animal action.

While, at times,

the grim goings-on in the wildlife world have proved just too gruesome.

Springwatch continues tomorrow night on BBC Two.

Next, you've been indicating dissatisfaction with

the seemingly increasingly common trend of filming presenters while

they are behind the wheel.

Coming in for particular criticism has been

BBC Two's Victoria Derbyshire programme.

As part of their recent election coverage,

a strand called Vic's Van Share saw the journalist taking to

the road to interview politicians from various parties.

What do you think sets you apart, then, from other middle-class,

-privately educated MPs in their 50s?

-That's a very cruel question.

Many of you got in touch to say you feel conducting interviews

while driving is irresponsible.

# It's up to you, boy

# You're driving me crazy

# Thinking you may be losing... #

Excluding complaints of news bias - and we covered that last week,

if you missed it - presenters being filmed while driving has

undoubtedly been the biggest bugbear in Points Of View's inbox of late.

And it's not just been Victoria who's been spotted in the driving seat.

# I've been driving in my car... #

We went to hear from more viewers who feel it's high time

the Beeb put the brakes on in-car filming.

I've noticed an increasing trend in producers using pieces shot

to camera whilst the presenter's driving,

often without the necessary care for the road.

I've noticed this trend on all sorts of programmes - travel programmes,

even Newsnight and Victoria Derbyshire.

I saw an example on Doctor In The House where Dr Rangan was

speaking to the passenger seat.

He was leant out of the chair with one hand off the wheel,

seeming to spend more time looking at the camera than at the road.

It's the blatant disregard for road safety that annoys me.

It seems that, often,

they might be paying more attention to the camera than driving,

that they're not always being a driver first and a presenter second.

Using mobile phones while you're driving is dangerous.

This, what the presenters are doing, is almost the same thing.

Their attention is completely on the piece they're doing to camera.

My main gripe is not with the presenter, obviously.

My gripe is with the producer.

I think it's a lazy way of setting it up.

Everyone's right to have a different opinion.

I want presenting from cars to stop. It shouldn't be necessary.

It doesn't add anything to the actual programme.

I'm not saying we should ban these shots completely because they could be used in context,

but I think that there's guidance there about picking low risks,

there's ways to reduce the risks, which are spelled out on paper,

and it doesn't always feel like they're being followed.

Well, the BBC does issue programme makers with guidance on how

to film safely in cars.

That guidance says drivers shouldn't look away from the road for

any longer than they would do to check mirrors or instruments

and that hands should be kept on the steering wheel with excessive gesticulations avoided.

We put your concerns regarding Vic's Van Share to the editor of the Victoria Derbyshire programme,

and this is what she had to say in response.

To the frozen wilds of Canada next and BBC Four's new Saturday night chiller.

The channel's first Canadian drama, Cardinal,

premiered last Saturday night with a double bill.

The series sees Detective John Cardinal on the hunt for

a serial killer, working with a partner who may have her own agenda.

When Todd Curry went missing,

he said he was going to visit his uncle,

but the uncle down in Hamilton said there was no such arrangement.

-Hadn't talked to Curry in months.

-Why the lie?

The officer in charge was Detective Peters.

If he knows, then he didn't put it in his report.

The action may play out in sub-zero temperatures,

but you warmed to this one.

That sexy voice proving frustrating for some, though.

He's not in my department any more.

Subtitles perhaps a requirement after all!

And finally this week, the curious case of the BBC Breakfast guests

looking rather green around the gills.

And here is the photographic evidence John kindly attached.

Never one to turn down a challenge,

we also uncovered several other BBC Breakfast interviewees

sporting green-tinged tresses when appearing from the London newsroom.

Absolutely spot on, John.

It is all down to the use of a green screen although there is

a solution, as I discovered when using the same equipment this week

during the BBC's election coverage.

Ah, the joys of the election studio!

But it allows me to illustrate this point, so here is our swingometer.

I'll bring it on. Actually, it's just green where I'm standing.

Have a look.

So this is what they use to create the virtual reality affect.

Come closer to me here.

The problem is, with light and with green here, there is a danger

of green bouncing off onto my face, but I don't really see it happening.

That's because they tell me they have put

a special filter in to stop it. So such a thing exists.

So, if the BBC has the technological know-how to avoid that green glare,

why hasn't it been put into practice for those BBC Breakfast interviewees?

Cutbacks, perhaps?

We asked the question, and this is what we got in response.

Would never happen on a show like this, of course.

That's it for this week but,

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Do enjoy the rest of your Sunday.