Bamzooki

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==Trivia==
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Here's something utterly obscure we found. ''Bamzooki'' has always been edited digitally, and was the first show to be made without a single handwritten note to say things like "use take 1 from 0:36:42" - these were all entered onto a computer system as the show went along. The BBC went on to enhance this production system, called it "Ingex", used it on such shows as [[Dragons' Den]] and ''Eastenders'', and it won a Royal Television Society innovation award in 2009. The BBC's Research and Development blog [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/researchanddevelopment/2009/11/the-ingex-project-an-introduct.shtml explains further], with a video demonstration.
== Web Links ==
== Web Links ==

Revision as of 19:06, 20 November 2009

Image:Bamzooki logo.gif

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Host

Jake Humphrey (2004-6)

Barney Harwood and Gemma Hunt (2009-)

Co-host

Announcer/commentator: Richard Webb

Broadcast

CBBC Channel 8 March 2004 to present

Also repeated on BBC1, 2004 and BBC2 2005-6

Synopsis

In Bamzooki Kids design Pokemon-esque creatures which are then rendered by computer. Two teams then set their creatures against each other in a series of games in a virtual studio, hoping to earn a time advantage in the exciting relay end game. A FightBox Junior, if you must.

Typographic pedantry alert: the correct title is BAMZOOKi, as in iMAC, iPOD, iCARLY, iDONTCARE etc. but that makes our server's hard drive ache.

After three years off air, Bamzooki returned in 2009 with new presenters and enhanced graphics.

Inventor

Producer, Paul Tyler

Videos

Long-form trailer for Bamzooki. Caution: contains the terms "appointment to view" and "user-generated content"

Trivia

Here's something utterly obscure we found. Bamzooki has always been edited digitally, and was the first show to be made without a single handwritten note to say things like "use take 1 from 0:36:42" - these were all entered onto a computer system as the show went along. The BBC went on to enhance this production system, called it "Ingex", used it on such shows as Dragons' Den and Eastenders, and it won a Royal Television Society innovation award in 2009. The BBC's Research and Development blog explains further, with a video demonstration.

Web Links

BBC Bamzooki page

Wikipedia entry

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