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bluemoon
3 months ago
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Interesting is the right word! It's not the sort of thing I would usually watch and, assuming it's correct, I wonder why Freema is involved? On the other hand, she is an increasingly hot commodity and I imagine the BBC will want to use her as much as possible.
editor
3 months ago
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Some warped producer probably heard her lovely voice doing the Cbeebies stories and said "oh she's be perfect to narrate these misadventures". Either that or they saw her interview with Jonathan Ross where she talked about her gig in Casualty and (her character) had her arm chopped off.
I wonder if she knew the exact stories she was signing up for though - should be hilarious, bringing in a crowd that would normally never watch that.
(thanks for this bluemoon)
doopdeedoo
3 months ago
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lol i hope it's just her voice.. her image will be corrupted into presenting otherwise and i want to see more acting 
bluemoon
3 months ago
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"[N]arrated" to me suggests a voice over commentary not a face to camera presenting job. A lot of actors do this kind of work for the BBC. Michael Praed (Robin of Sherwood from the 1980s) does a lot nowadays, for example.
editor
3 months ago
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Here is a sample of this - it is indeed Freema, with the most bizarre (I dare say vulgar) content. I have no idea why she agreed to do this but she apparently felt okay with it or she had no idea what she was getting herself into.
NOTICE: THIS VIDEO DEALS WITH EXTREMELY
MATURE CONTENT AND IS NOT MEANT FOR MINORS
the series starts Thursday 14th February at 10.30pm on BBC3.
doopdeedoo
3 months ago
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This is so weird.. what's up with the sound effects??!!
I hope you're right bluemoon.. Speaking of which, i was watching some sort of documentary the other day and was surprised to see Christopher Eccleston having narrated it in the credits- i hadn't noticed at all!
bluemoon
3 months ago
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The sound effects and other attempts at comedy are, I suppose, because the programme is on BBC3, a channel that aims to be trendy, street and yoof.
I don't have any problem at all with the content. I just still wonder how and why Freema got involved. There is more than one programme, too, so I don't know if she will do them all or just the first.
editor
3 months ago
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More preview - eh... I'll watch it only for Freema and I think that's what they hoped for. Mature content:
editor
3 months ago
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Life at one of the country's busiest A&E departments will this week feature in a new eight-part BBC documentary that has followed remarkable tales of survival.
The series, Bizarre ER, has been filmed over five months at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, and features some extraordinary stories. The A&E at NNUH treats more than 75,000 patients a year.
The first programme, broadcast on February 14 on BBC3 at 10.30pm, features a pole dancer who fell off her pole; a teenage golfer who smashed the ball into his girlfriend’s teeth, and a man who fell into an industrial cement mixer. The series is narrated by Freema Agyeman, who plays medical student Martha Jones, in ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Torchwood’.
Bizarre E.R.’s cameras spent five months at the A&E Department of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, waiting for the medical cases that were truly bizarre, then followed them from admission through the treatment process, up to the point of discharge.
Future episodes include a fisherman who’s had an anchor swung into his groin; an arm-wrestling session that ends with a bone being snapped; and an oil rig worker airlifted from the North Sea when he swallows a toothpick.
Bizarre E.R. offers an eye-watering insight into human ingenuity and our relative indestructibility. It also pays tribute to the unshockable NHS doctors and nurses who cope with the most testing situations with unflinching professionalism and great good humour.
Mixed in with the fly-on-the-wall footage and interviews are specially created animations which reconstruct some of the accidents we feature, and fascinating accident-related facts and statistics. Viewers will learn that golf causes more injuries each year than martial arts and boxing combined; and reveals the hidden dangers of the frozen crumpet.
The eight part series has been made by Maverick Television.
editor
3 months ago
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And one more preview... not for the squeamish...
A poster on LJ reports that TV Quick says Freema will be narrating a programme called Bizarre ER on BBC 3 about weird ER (I assume they mean A&E) cases: "This new series looks at some of the strangest cases to arrive at a busy accident and emergency dept. IN the first programme narrated by Dr Who's Freema Agyeman, patients include a man who has trapped his testicles under a 60kg gearbox, and a golfer who has teed into his girlfriend's teeth! Future episodes involve a fisherman and a painful accident with his anchor..."
It doesn't say when it is on but the poster advises keeping a lookout for the upcoming BBC3 listings.