http://www.metafilter.com/tags/brittv Posts tagged with 'brittv' at MetaFilter. Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:14:41 -0800 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:14:41 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/64570/What%2Dhas%2Dthe%2DBBC%2Dever%2Ddone%2Dfor%2Dus For those of us who thought the BBC's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNoBQn4BLMU">mammoth</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu-D7bPMZc0">self</a>- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE3aYgZtdaM">marketing</a> <a href="http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1737094,00.html">campaigns</a> were one of the symptions of modern marketing excess, a trawl on the Internet has turned up this <a href="http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/67192/detail/">John Cleese-presented advertisment on What Have the BBC Ever Given Us?</a>. And it being the BBC, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTr38mbYd6Q">Spitting Image have the right of rebuttal</a>... Hark back to a golden age when the licence fee was only &#0163;55, alternative comedy was cool enough to be mentioned on mainstream television (albeit from the toilet) - and more importantly, pubs weren't decked out in steel chrome. For all us TV archivists, can you tell me what year this was from? Bob Geldof witters on about Live Aid, so it's certainly post 1985... tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64570 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:14:41 -0800 advertisment bbc bobgeldof britain brittv johncleese licencefee liveaid retrotv uk ukadvert uktv electriccynic