We have a name for the new programme...

Comments

1. At 08:42 PM on 11 Sep 2007, Gillian wrote:

   Obviously!

2. At 09:13 PM on 11 Sep 2007, Bedd Gelert wrote:

   What new programme ?

   Or should that be 'Which new programme?' ?

   What are you talking about, man, spit it out..

3. At 09:22 PM on 11 Sep 2007, Dr Hackenbush wrote:

   My eyesight seems to have failed.

4. At 09:29 PM on 11 Sep 2007, Sid Cumberland wrote:

   The Glass Box?
   Riding the Bronco?
   The New Programme?
   iPM?
   The Pharmacy Girls?
   The Beach?
   How's yer Latin?

   Sid
   

5. At 09:45 PM on 11 Sep 2007, Sid Cumberland wrote:

   Hint: Look under Categories ...

   Sid
   

6. At 09:58 PM on 11 Sep 2007, Sally D wrote:

   Oh yes! Very good.

7. At 10:37 PM on 11 Sep 2007, Moz wrote:

   I preferred The Blog Prog

8. At 11:16 PM on 11 Sep 2007, Gossipmistress wrote:

   It looks distinctive & classy written down. But how are you going to pronounce it? Will it be 'Eye PM' - in which case it sounds horribly like advertising for IBM! (or ITN if you've got a cold)

9. At 01:00 AM on 12 Sep 2007, jonnie wrote:

   But!

   Whatever it's called?

   and however it works - and we are all dying to know!

   Please tell us it won't be working under Siemens software and hardware? PLEASE?

10. At 06:41 AM on 12 Sep 2007, michael jenkins wrote:

    Eddie and the Detectives ?

11. At 08:29 AM on 12 Sep 2007, eddie mair wrote:

    Jonnie you know I don't understand most of the technical stuff but if our meeting yesterday was any guide then yes I think it will be with the same technology. We are going to try to work it better though!

12. At 08:34 AM on 12 Sep 2007, Nick Jones wrote:

    Please can we spared from any further rabid neo-con musings on the PM programme of the awful John Bolton, who (as a very unsuccessful US Ambassador for a very short time at the UN) actually represents no-one but himself! I was trempted to use the word 'clown' instead of 'awful', but on reflection felt that it would be an insult to the memory of the wonderful Coco.

13. At 09:34 AM on 12 Sep 2007, Sara wrote:

    Well, I'm a bit disappointed cos I thought we'd got till Thursday before it was finally decided. I think iPM is much too like that huge old-fashioned computer that used to have a big air-con room all to itself that no-one was allowed to go in except techy boys with great reels of tape.

    Since Eddie said the new prog was to be like PM but with more input from us, I was going to favour URPM.

    But there you go. Missed the bus again!

14. At 09:40 AM on 12 Sep 2007, Big Sister wrote:

    Oh dear, the same technology - you mean the technology that failed to release my post on this thread yesterday? The one in which I congratulated Eddie and the Team?

    If I, as a longstanding regular, am beginning to lose patience with it, how will the newcomers feel about interacting with the current technology?

    It's a great idea, but ..........

15. At 10:43 AM on 12 Sep 2007, David McNickle wrote:

    iPM eh? OiC.

16. At 10:43 AM on 12 Sep 2007, DI Wyman wrote:

    mmmmm....iPM.....who thought of that then?

17. At 11:29 AM on 12 Sep 2007, The Stainless Steel Cat wrote:

    "Eye" PM? Watch it, or Lord Gnome will sue! Or is that strategy? You've been in Viz, now you want to get into Private Eye?

    iPM: inevitably Pre-Menstrual
    iPM: isn't PM
    iPM: interesting Polar Mairs
    

18. At 11:36 AM on 12 Sep 2007, Sybil the cat. wrote:

    Meow.

19. At 11:53 AM on 12 Sep 2007, Eddie Mair wrote:

    Sara (13) you should be pleased for us. We normally take an age to make up our minds!

20. At 12:42 PM on 12 Sep 2007, Dr Hackenbush wrote:

    I’ve heard that Isaac Burton Menswear trousers are incompatible with a Mac.

21. At 01:11 PM on 12 Sep 2007, Sara wrote:

    Eddie (19) - Me? Pleased? My other name is Eeyore. And I still don't really like iPM. But there you are. Sorry.

    Must go and find my tail now.

22. At 01:32 PM on 12 Sep 2007, Vyle Hernia wrote:

    I had not realised it was a PM - based programme; thought it was intended to be R4 -wide.

23. At 01:39 PM on 12 Sep 2007, Belinda wrote:

    Will Apple Mac, or whatever they are called, have any copyright concerns about the BBC stealing the i[word] idea?

    I pee 'em.

24. At 02:01 PM on 12 Sep 2007, Frances O wrote:

    Eddie, you won!

    Maybe it'll be i-PM, just to avoid incompatibility with fruity raincoats - or their lawyers.

    Sid, you are a clever person. For a few seconds I thought it might be 'The New Programme', probably known as 'New' inside the Beeb. Or 'TNP'.

25. At 02:58 PM on 12 Sep 2007, iFifi wrote:

    How idisappointingly iuncreative.

    iFifi

    :o(

26. At 04:51 PM on 12 Sep 2007, The Stainless Steel Cat wrote:

    Dr H. (20):

    I recognise that! But I can't remember where it's from... It's not one of the Boothby Graffoe programmes is it?

27. At 04:55 PM on 12 Sep 2007, iDeepthought (iJohn W) wrote:

    Will it be presented by iEddie Mair?

28. At 05:00 PM on 12 Sep 2007, David McNickle wrote:

    John W (27),
    No, iLeclerc.

29. At 05:18 PM on 12 Sep 2007, JB wrote:

    Where will the studio be?
    iLeman? or iLewight

    etc etc................

30. At 05:35 PM on 12 Sep 2007, Sid Cumberland wrote:

    Frances O (24)

    Come to the beach and I'll get you a drink ...

    Sid
    

31. At 06:05 PM on 12 Sep 2007, Frances i wrote:

    You're on, Sid.

    It'll have to be an i scream soda, I suppose

32. At 07:14 PM on 12 Sep 2007, orange ipekoe wrote:

    Gah! That nice producer man told me all I had to do was copy and paste his suggestions and I'd get a prize. P'raps I'll get some i-candy instead...

33. At 08:45 PM on 12 Sep 2007, imittfh wrote:

    Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.

    Once upon a time, a well known computer company called everything "My":

    My Computer
    My Documents
    My Music
    My Network Places
    My Pictures
    My Videos

    However, this "Me Me Me!" attitude was widely ridiculed by computer users (even more so when the company released a product that looked as though it had been designed by Fisher-Price).

    Then another well known computer company called everything "i":

    iBook (a notebook)
    iChat
    iMac
    iMovie
    iPod
    iPhone
    iSight (a webcam)
    iTunes

    This was far more succesful, and soon everyone was joining the "i-something" bandwagon.

    In 2007, a well-known radio program decided to launch an interactive spin-off. After giving it the code-name "Blog Prog", after many hours thought, intense debate, and BBC coffees, they hit upon the ideal name: "iPM". And even better, they hadn't needed to spend several million pounds worth of license payers money inventing it.

    In response, the listeners decided to join the trend, by prefixing their usernames on the frog with the letter "i".

    iAnd ithey iall ilived ihappily iever iafter.

34. At 10:20 PM on 12 Sep 2007, Sid Cumberland wrote:

    Eye, eye ... what's this ear then?

    iSid
    

35. At 06:48 PM on 13 Sep 2007, Aperitif wrote:

    iPOOSH!