– where once we had BBC defends ‘digital face’ trails we now have, according to The Times, BBC drops ‘horrific’ bouncing head:
The BBC dropped a “bouncing head” trailer for digital television after it was described as horrific by viewers and prompted 1,300 complaints. It featured a dismembered animated head, made up of hundreds of tiny heads, bouncing over hills. The head transformed into the face of well-known BBC presenters. One viewer said: “As a registered psychotherapist, I wish to protest that this image is disturbingly psychotic.” The BBC said that it had not been its intention to offend.
It seems the BBC’s version of this story was snuck out ever so briefly in the BBC Views Online Entertainment section, with the usual shilly-shallying equivocation much in evidence:
In a statement, the BBC said: “The digital faces trail was one of a very long series designed to capture the attention of viewers and stimulate interest in the BBC’s digital services.
“The latest, which was first transmitted on 5 November, has been very successful in this respect and early indications are that it has achieved its goal.”
“We have been very conscious that some viewers disliked the nature of the trail, although clearly it was not our intention to offend.
The trouble is, even though the BBC doesn’t set out generally to offend people, they seem to manage it time and again. I’m sure you, like me, can think of a few other BBC horrors that ought to be dropped.
Kirsty Wark.
Matt Frei
TV-Tax.
All those people who stood outside and supported Dyke when he resigned.
Monty Don and his peat free f*****g compost!
Also the aged hippy and the bag-lady that ‘present’ the programme with him….
Eco global bloody warming moonbats one and all…
Doesn’t Peet emit Methane?
So wouldn’t using as much peet as possible lower methane emissions (which some claim is a greenhouse gas).
Natasha Krapslinki
I just can’t stand the smug *****
It’s only the bouncing head that’s “disturbingly psychotic?”
Not the whole Beeb itself?
Kaplinsky can stay, just get that smirk off her face!
Jim ‘When We win the election…’ Naughtie
I found those trails very disturbing – an Abu Musab al-Zarqawi wet dream. Shame on the BBC for their insensitivity.
Just digital? The bbc can get a real face transplant now. Although in their case they’ll need the whole head. Anyone want to go down this road?
not trying to sound like a fundamentalist, but do you think this might be psychological conditioning in order to get you used to seeing it, so that when the real thing begins to happen, you won’t be shocked that Christians are being beheaded? (it says in Revelation that all the believers will be beheaded in the end times).
just food for thought!
Am I the only one that thought the adverts were funny?