Folks-

I am in Los Angeles right now, prepping to do an interview for a BBC program about the Deep Impact probe. The show will be live on the 4th, with some segments (like mine) pre-taped. We'll be discussing comets in movies, including, duh, "Deep Impact".

I'll have more info later after the shoot, and I'll post here and on my blog.

The show is hosted by Dr. Brian Cox, and yes, the irony of this is not lost on me.

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Ah well....

I wounder if there will be anychance for me to tune in...

Anyway- good luck!

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I remember seeing the link for this. Wow, that is ironic, but it sounds like a lof of fun! Unfortunately it doesn't show on BBC America, BBC One is something different. So, will anyone in the US get to see?

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Do you know what time the show screens? I'll make a point of trying to watch a TV for this. =D>

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Frogesque, don't you get the BBC that I posted above?

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Unph! Ah! What? Hmmmm... Wakes up and reads Melusine's post ops:

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BBC eh? You have my sympathies. (You may be able to tell from the other forum that we're not getting along at the moment.)

So, you would avoid watching a physicist and an astronomer (two, if Phil will be on) just because you're mad at the Evil Environmentalists? :wink:

Now, don't cut off your nose :^o to spite your face. [-X

Why do we get the cheesy BBC here on digital cable? I thought when I signed up for digital it was going to be the real BBC one. All they show are a bunch of variety or comedy shows, and one hour of news.

Edit: add question. Why isn't any TV show doing anything on Deep Impact, or is there one? I saw all of ToSeek's links, but it won't be on TV??

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Hey BA! Don't forget to say hi to Patrick Moore if you see him. They usually get him on TV to comment on these events. Or have you met him before?

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There's going to be NASA TV coverage. Didn't see anything in there about the BBC though.

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Speaking of astronomers on the BBC. I saw an episode of The Late Edition late last night (I think it was a really old repeat). It stars Marcus something, a comedian, giving his take on current affairs, including a delightful bit of satire about the citizenship test. They had Colin Pillinger on asking him about the failure of Beagle 2 and they also brought on a "fan space scientist" who wanted to meet Prof Pillinger and ask him about his advice when it comes to their moon probe. Apparently, they were having problems getting the speed up because they could jump on the springboard hard enough. But they did come up with a solution to avoid Beagle 2's fate of getting lost by fitting a million mile dog leash to their moon probe.

Mak, who gets NASA TV?

What the heck? I want to turn on that thing that's in my living room!

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Maksutov, it's not what I wanted but thanks. It's not working very well on RealPlayer - all the images are breaking up or are still. It's shuttle stuff at the moment...I can't really hear what's going on. They put up a blue screen with info on it, but it's all foggy. I want a NASA channel on the TV.

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Ditto that- I got super foxtell(cable) and It never has anything worth watching except a 3am on discovery science- during prime time they have stupid paranormal shows

I'm off to check if we have the BBC...

We have BBC world... I wounder what that is....

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There is a program called Comet Impact:stardate on BBC2 at 20:00. Is that it?

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I'm starting to wonder why I post at all...don't people read the whole thread first before they post?? ](*,)

http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/vi...=495883#495883

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I did read the whole thread. 8-[

but I thought that you were just reffering to Deep Impact coverage in general.....

So the BA's program is going to be on NASA TV then?

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It's just you were the 2nd Frog to miss what I said. It's OK. No, I don't think he'll be on NASA TV, because the BBC show is what he said he was doing a pre-taped interview for. The BBC show I linked above has been scheduled for some time...wonder how Phil got to get on it. Where are you FrogMarch? Yes, you get to see Phil if you're in the UK. The rest of us in the US are stuck with BBC America, which doesn't have it. Maybe people with satellite dishes in the US get Real BBC.

Edit add: the references to NASA TV were from Mak, for those of us who want to watch general coverage of Deep Impact and will not be able to see the Dr. Cox/BBC/Phil program. But even that isn't working too well for me.

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BBC are broadcasting TWO programs.

BBC 1, 11.45am, Monday 4th July: Comet Impact: Stardate

BBC 2, 8pm, Monday 4th July: Comet Impact: Stardate

And it looks like Dr.Cox is going to present the BBC1 edition although isn't the impact going to be a 06:52 July 4th?

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they look the same to me, maybe the 2nd one is a rerun?

(I have programmaed the VHS to record the 2nd one )

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yes it does appear that the two programs are the same.

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wait a minute

I thought that they were the same for a minute.

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I'm back home now. We filmed the segment pretty quickly, actually, which surprised me. We were outside, filming at a hotel pool with a great view of the Hollywood hills. Brian Cox and I discussed the movie, and made a few jokes. We filmed some background material for a while, then wrapped. I don't know how long the segment will be, but if it's even 3 minutes I'll be surprised!

Brian and I got along really well. We have a lot in common besides a love and deep respect for the methods of science. We talked a bit about doing some stuff together in the future as well, which would be very cool. I like him.

And what the heck, here's a picture of us from last night:

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Well, that's just great, and so ironic considering the thread that Candy had started (now gone) about him. I'm really glad for that now, because I learned so much about FermiLab and that Einstein video (has anyone here ever been to the FermiLab?) It really looks like a neat place. And I especially like the conservation efforts, as well. That would be cool to do future projects. Nice picture of the both of you, too.

It's too bad we in the US can't see the show, three minutes or not. It's looking like the Discovery Channel will be it for me (geesh, the Brits get Pink Floyd and Phil).

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The BA was on the morning BBC1 stardate show.

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BTW, that's a BIG signature ya got there!

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well there seemed to be some uncertainty as to what channel or where he was going to be on.



Is the signature better now?

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Well, I was unable to see this morning's show (being at work ) but I will most deffinitely be sat in front of the telly, telephone OFF, mobile OFF, front doorbell OFF, family told to ..... errrr..... keep away.

BBC2 at 8:00pm UK time.

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