14-06-2024, 04:17 PM
TV Ark has this promo for The Box:
tvark.org
Going by the videos in it, this wouldn't have been long before the big revamp in November/December 1999.
I remember during the summer and autumn of 1999, there seemed to be some sort of presentation tweak every week, they couldn't leave things alone. It was only when the big revamp happened and everything changed at once that it settled.
One of the very first tweaks was replacing the person who did the voiceover on Box Tops- for years it had been this American man who always sounded overly cheerful... then one week he sounded really miserable and I wondered if he'd been sacked, which he clearly had been as we never heard him again. Mitch Johnson (of Live & Kicking fame) did most of the voiceovers during said summer/Autumn 99 period- then disappeared with the revamp.
Would be wonderful to be able to break open the Box archive and see all this stuff... if it was kept anyway.
tvark.org
Going by the videos in it, this wouldn't have been long before the big revamp in November/December 1999.
I remember during the summer and autumn of 1999, there seemed to be some sort of presentation tweak every week, they couldn't leave things alone. It was only when the big revamp happened and everything changed at once that it settled.
One of the very first tweaks was replacing the person who did the voiceover on Box Tops- for years it had been this American man who always sounded overly cheerful... then one week he sounded really miserable and I wondered if he'd been sacked, which he clearly had been as we never heard him again. Mitch Johnson (of Live & Kicking fame) did most of the voiceovers during said summer/Autumn 99 period- then disappeared with the revamp.
Would be wonderful to be able to break open the Box archive and see all this stuff... if it was kept anyway.