RE: On the BBC, yeah, yeah, yeah (was Re: Bolide sites?)

[Sue Blakey <ellensb@trib.com>]

The BBC (yep, British Broadcasting Company) just completed filming a 
segment of a new series, "Dinosaur Detectives" (for kids) at The Wyoming 
Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis. The series was being filmed around the 
world, and if I remember correctly, they filmed another Wyoming site during 
the time we were working with them as well. I understand our segment is 
scheduled to air in Britain in Sept.; I'm not sure where we fall in the 
full schedule of programming, however. In any case, they were traveling to 
something like 16 countries to do the series. They used local "talent" 
(translate that "kids") while here, along with our paleontologists, so I 
assume they are doing much the same elsewhere.
Ellen Sue Blakey, The Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Thermopolis, Wyoming
http://www.wyodino.org

-----Original Message-----
From:   Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. [SMTP:th81@umail.umd.edu]
Sent:   Friday, July 02, 1999 6:09 AM
To:     Alien4240@aol.com
Cc:     dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject:        On the BBC, yeah, yeah, yeah (was Re: Bolide sites?)

At 03:16 AM 7/2/99 EDT, Matt "Alien4240" wrote:
>In a message dated 7/1/99 12:29:26 PM Central Daylight Time,
>th81@umail.umd.edu writes:
>
><< Dan Tapster of working on a documentary for the BBC (on mammal 
evolution).
[snip]

>I was wondering what the BBC is and how it's related to Dinosaurs, or 
here,
>mammal evolution? I thought it was British Broadcasting Company or 
something
>like that, that Jimi Hendrix and other greats performed on?

Umm, yes.  It is the British Broadcasting Company, the organization that
produces and broadcasts radio and TV for the UK (and for export elsewhere).
It is related to dinosaurs (and mammal) evolution in that they make
documentaries (often vastly better than a lot of the American network
produced ones, sad to say: they are willing to use the "e"-word and 
such...).

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, the BBC will be airing "Walking 
with
Dinosaurs", a documentary series on dinosaur evolution with a different
emphasis than your typical 'Bakker out in the field'-type.  It is supposed
to eventually come to the U.S., although I'm not certain who is going to
distribute it and how.

                        Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                        Vertebrate Paleontologist
Deptartment of Geology                  Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland                  College Park Scholars
College Park, MD  20742
Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu        Phone:301-405-4084
Email:tholtz@geol.umd.edu               Fax:  301-314-9661