The first recording today is a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Pika and Goliath.
Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. Pikachu meets a trainer who owns both a Pichu and a Raichu – and is forced to think very hard about an issue concerning his future.
Recorded from CITV on Tuesday 8th September 2009 06:58
After this the recording ends with the start of Ben 10.
The next recording is another repeat, of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Team Shocker.
Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. The Solaceon Pokemon Contest is finally underway. Will it provide some valuable learning experiences for Dawn?
Recorded from CITV on Tuesday 8th September 2009 15:28
After this, the recording ends with the start of Horrid Henry.
The last recording today is another first series episode of Primeval – Pter-Able News. (No wonder they didn’t use these titles in-vision.) This is an episode I missed on first broadcast.
Connor is staying in Abby’s flat, and why she puts up with it I do not know. He’s even turning up the thermostat so she’ll take more clothes off.
On a golf course, something chases and attacks one of the players. We don’t see what it is yet.
The team find the anomaly – it’s in the air above the golf course.
They wonder what came through and ate the golfer. It’s not long before they encounter it – a Pterosaur.
Connor is called to the golf course, and despite very clear warnings from Abby about keeping windows closed, Rex has got our of the flat and hitched a ride.
Rex goes running off, Connor chases him onto the course, and they are both then pursued by the Pterosaur.
Claudia Brown orders the soldiers to shoot the Pterosaur dead by Cutter thinks that’s a last resort, and isn’t sure this creature killed the golfer, so he ruins the soldier’s shot.
They follow the animal to the top of a nearby building. Cutter spots a red stripe on its head, and reasons that it might be attracted to other red things, so he asks Claudia to take her shirt off. She tries to argue against it. “Come on, it’s magenta.” “It’s close enough.” “It’s nothing like red!” Maybe nobody told the costume department because that shirt is way more red than magenta. In the end Stephen offers the red T-Shirt he’s wearing under his shirt. And after they’ve successfully tranquilised it, she gets knocked out by its flailing wing.
Back in the hotel, Claudia is diagnosed as concussed. But she also tells Cutter that she can’t see.
Back on the golf course, Abby and Connor are still trying to catch Rex, but they find the creatures who killed the golfer – a tree full of bird-sized pterosaurs, and the episode turns into Hitchcock’s The Birds.
Inevitably, they find their way to the hotel where Claudia was taken and start trying to get in, because they can smell the blood from a blood pack she stepped on when she first woke up. I’m not sure why there was a blood pack there, as I don’t think she’d lost any blood, so I’m guessing it was there for plot reasons.
She has to defend herself with a handy golf club. (Her eyesight has got better I guess.)
But the room is invaded by dozens of them, and it’s looking bad for her until she’s rescued by Helen Cutter, who’s suddenly there for no explained reason.
She takes Claudia into the hotel kitchen, tells her to stay by the opposite door, and turns on all the gas hobs, then puts a metal jug into the microwave, and opens the other door to let all the flying creatures into the kitchen.
She sets off the microwave, they both exit the kitchen and there’s a huge explosion. Helen Cutter does not look at explosions.
The last job is to get the large Pterosaur to fly back through the anomaly, to which end Cutter has to stand on a cherry-picker waving a big red flag so it flies through.
Media Centre Description: Science fiction drama series. When a golfer is brutally attacked, Cutter and his team fear that an aerial predator is at large. The pressure is on to find the perpetrator, but they make the wrong call – and Cutter and Claudia discover that they could be the next victims.
Recorded from ITV2 on Tuesday 8th September 2009 18:58
After this, the recording ends with the start of What Katie Did Next, not an adaptation of the Susan Coolidge novel, but a docusoap series about Katie Price, this one coming after her recent divorce from Peter Andre.
Before the ad breaks, here’s an extra treat – some of the continuity from Action Stations, the strand that’s showing all the Pokemon. In these they manage to have not only a Les Miserables reference, but also a villain called Doctor Poo Pants. Not a bad feat.
Here’s the first pokemon ad breaks.
Here’s the second Pokemon ad breaks.
Here’s the Primeval ad breaks, featuring the first appearance (on this blog at least) of the GoCompare opera singer, Gio Compario (at least, that’s what Richard Herring said he was called).
Adverts:
- Aquafresh Big Teeth
- Surf Twilight Sensations
- Oaty Bars
- Gormiti Magic Egg
- Frubes
- Disney Micro World
- Wii Academy of Champions Football
- Vaseline Essential Moisture
- trail: Action Stations
- Surf Twilight Sensations
- Vaseline Essential Moisture
- Transformers Toys
- McDonalds – Looney Tunes
- British Gas
- Transformers Toys
- Dove Hair Minimising
- trail: Action Stations
- trail: Kid vs Cat
- Lego Power Miners
- Barbie Pink
- Cool Cardz
- Teeny Meez
- Moxie Girlz
- Mini Ninjas
- Star Wars Clone Wars Toys
- Aqua Beads
- Disneyland Paris
- Moonpig.com
- Lego City
- trail: Horrid Henry
- Silly Scoops
- Geox
- trail: Jonas
- Toobie Woobies
- Shaker Maker
- Aquafresh Big Teeth
- McDonalds – Looney Tunes
- Wii Academy of Champions Football
- Barbie Pink
- Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs in cinemas
- 20 Q
- Girl Crush
- Barbie Doggie Park
- trail: Weekends on CITV
- Glade Sense & Spray
- TRESemme 24 Hour Body
- Tesco Clubcard
- trail: Paris Hilton’s American Best Friend Forever
- Ariel Excel Gel
- Fame in cinemas
- DVLA Personalised Registrations
- Garnier Nutrisse – Davina McCall
- Vaseline Essential Moisture
- Direct Line
- Morrisons
- trail: What Katie Did Next
- BMW
- Garnier Fructis
- Sure Maximum Protection
- TRESemme 24 Hour Body
- Isklar
- 08000 Mum Dad
- Somerfield
- Army
- Nivea Happy Time
- Virgin Holidays – Charlotte Church
- Lyclear
- Look
- trail: Jack Osbourne’s Celebrity Adrenaline Junkie
- trail: Autumn on ITV2
- Disneyland Paris
- Surf Twilight Sensations
- Tesco Clubcard
- Barclays
- Optical Express
- Dove Hair Minimising
- TRESemme 24 Hour Body
- Barclays
- gocompare.com – Gio Compario
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