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Old Mar 23, 2023, 10:39 am
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TV documentary 'Inside British Airways 24/7' (Channel 5 UK), starts Wed 29 Mar
2 part mini-doc starts next Wednesday.
I believe this is not a repeat!

https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/pr-insidebritair-c5
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Old Mar 23, 2023, 11:37 am
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Originally Posted by AleTrail
2 part mini-doc starts next Wednesday.
I believe this is not a repeat!

https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/pr-insidebritair-c5
Ooohhh- we love a good documentary to criticise and moan about on here! I’ll need to ask the kids how to set the Sky+ box!
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Old Mar 23, 2023, 11:37 am
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Originally Posted by AleTrail
2 part mini-doc starts next Wednesday.
I believe this is not a repeat!

https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/pr-insidebritair-c5
Odd that C5 would reuse the title for a doc they have previously shown under that name before

https://beyondrights.tv/programme/in...ritish_airways
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Old Mar 23, 2023, 11:39 am
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Thanks!

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Old Mar 23, 2023, 12:08 pm
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Thanks, one to record and shuttle through 'coming up'.
I'm curious now, I rearly see anything on Channel 5 that isn't 'sponsored' by someone.

Brought to you by Qatar Airways..
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Old Mar 23, 2023, 12:48 pm
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Originally Posted by crazy8534
Ooohhh- we love a good documentary to criticise and moan about on here! I’ll need to ask the kids how to set the Sky+ box!
Why record? that's old school, you can watch it on demand via their website or the app on your phone/tablet.
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Old Mar 23, 2023, 12:51 pm
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Originally Posted by flybymonkey
Why record? that's old school, you can watch it on demand via their website or the app on your phone/tablet.
On-demand doesn't let you skip through the adverts...

...notwithstanding the fact that these programmes are usually one thumping great big advert in-and-of themselves.
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Old Mar 23, 2023, 12:55 pm
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I suspect this will be another fantasy marketing video showing BA's attention to detail and cleanliness.

Let's see.
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Old Mar 23, 2023, 1:08 pm
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Originally Posted by IJN Harekaze
Odd that C5 would reuse the title for a doc they have previously shown under that name before

https://beyondrights.tv/programme/in...ritish_airways
Given how tenuously they advertise things as new a lot of the time on Channel 5 it wouldn't surprise me if these two 'New' episodes where a mash up of the previous four.
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Old Mar 23, 2023, 1:19 pm
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Originally Posted by Flaps Down
On-demand doesn't let you skip through the adverts...

...notwithstanding the fact that these programmes are usually one thumping great big advert in-and-of themselves.
True but a small price to pay when you have to consider you have to pay for a TV licence and I have not had one of those for years.
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Old Mar 23, 2023, 1:28 pm
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Originally Posted by adrianlondon
I suspect this will be another fantasy marketing video showing BA's attention to detail and cleanliness.

Let's see.

Yes indeed …… could be rather entertaining if so. Especially if the fantasy of immaculate positioning of crockery & glassware, before presentation to each and every passenger, is peddled once again. And that was just for CW as I fondly recall (for First, precision standards akin to a Buckingham Palace State Dinner are the benchmark)
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Old Mar 23, 2023, 3:00 pm
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Originally Posted by IJN Harekaze
Odd that C5 would reuse the title for a doc they have previously shown under that name before

https://beyondrights.tv/programme/in...ritish_airways
I believe this is 'series 2'

In the second series, we follow pilots undertaking training on flight simulators, ahead of flying the new Airbus A350 for the first time and we go inside the maintenance centre in Cardiff where a plane is being upgraded with Wi-Fi that works in the sky. We also track overnight ops teams investigating technical faults on two short-haul aircraft and watch as Heathrow ground team dispatch manager, Sally-Anne, is left in a rush to get a plane ready for its departure to Tokyo following its late arrival from Delhi.
Gives you an idea of how long ago it was recorded...
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Old Mar 23, 2023, 6:34 pm
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Originally Posted by revorgap
I believe this is 'series 2'



Gives you an idea of how long ago it was recorded...
I've come back to this several times and something doesn't appear to be a previous series with that title either listed in IMDB or in the F&T Archives. So I looked up the production company and its not technically a new series

Series 1 was British Airways - 24/7...

Channel 5 could, I think, get into trouble for misleading viewers
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Old Mar 23, 2023, 8:04 pm
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Originally Posted by IJN Harekaze
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Channel 5 could, I think, get into trouble for misleading viewers

Perhaps so (although the regulator might have given up on it by now )

Channel 5 - occasionally - has some interesting stuff ; but for the most part it tends to operate in a wacky world all of its own. This, after all, is the home of 22 Kids & Counting and Most Shocking Celebrity Moments of the Decade.
The C5 ‘Christmas Movie Season’ begins annually early September ……. and swiftly ramps up to around four or five festive-themed films daily.
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Old Mar 24, 2023, 12:45 am
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It will probably be two programmes full of bizarre covid restrictions and masks.

It’s going to take a few years to get these depressing images and activities out of the TV blood stream
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