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The BBC’s I’d Do Anything is one of my guilty pleasures in life…

The uninitiated amongst you may not know that this is the third in a series of programmes during which Andrew Lloyd Webber picks a new West End star. The earlier versions were How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? and Any Dream Will Do. The shows are particularly notable for the exit sequence, during which the person voted off the show just moments previously has to perform with the other Marias / Josephs / Nancys “saying goodbye in their own special way”, as Graham Norton puts it each week.

Anyway, I love it. Here’s a compilation clip from the exit sequences so far this series. (Given that my finals are just weeks away, yes, I probably should have been doing something more useful with my time…)

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As we all excite ourselves about a new episode of The Apprentice tonight, here’s last week’s final scene reimagined… in Lego.

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Silly, I know, but it’s one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in a long time. Especially the inspired ending.

» Video Credit: Original video by the BolegBros.

This week, BBC Four showed clips of the bits edited out of QI – clearly one of the best shows on TV – in a special ‘Elephants’ episode (see below for next transmission time). If you missed it, you’ll have missed this gem… So let me present it to you as a pre-Christmas treat.

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Browsing YouTube tonight, I feel an acute sense of loss at the ending of The West Wing. It was a truly great show – and which other would make this kind of point on prime time US telly?

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Thanks to Helen in Toronto for sending in this very effective ad, which has (understandably) been causing a bit of a stir around her neck of the woods.

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The Camp Okutta website is here, and a news article with further explanation is here. It’s a really great ad campaign.

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There are now more videos available through the site: As well as the video posts, you can also access the YouTube videos that I’ve marked as favourites. All of this excitement is available with a click of Videos in the menu at the top of every page. More new stuff is coming soon.

As you’ll no doubt have seen some time ago, the BBC has now apologised over its report that the Queen walked out of a photoshoot with Annie Leibovitz, a story I also reported here. The footage the BBC played to journalists spliced together footage of her objecting to removing her crown with footage of her walking in to the portrait sitting, as you can see in this clip:

It seems extraordinary that the news on BBC One can report something as fact based on some badly edited footage of a BBC One programme. I know the BBC’s verging on Brobdingnagian these days, but when a world renowned news team can’t check out a story based on a programme for the same organisation, I think we’re in trouble. Whatever happened to ‘One BBC’?