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The author published this entry on Tuesday 01 September, 2009 at 12:32 pm. It's been filed in the bbc + manchestercategory

MediaCity in Salford: Is the BBC going to be staffed by cartoon turtles?

There’s a new video that’s been produced to show what MediaCity in Salford is going to look like in 2011. As this is the year the BBC are due to move in, one can only conclude that the broadcaster is planning to employ a load of cartoon turtles and legions of weird flourescent blobs. The first minute, which depicts central Manchester as a desolate wasteland beset by storms of Post-It notes, also seems to have been designed specifically to annoy Manchester city council, whose top brass have never been especially happy that Salford, and developer Peel Holdings, stole the Beeb from under its nose.

Enjoy.

Hat tip: Nigel Barlow on Twitter

The Conversation {5 comments}

  1. HB 01 September, 09 @ 6:38 pm

    I actually am a cartoon tortoise, so I think it’s pretty fair. But did you spot the Twitter product placement?

  2. Robin Brown 02 September, 09 @ 10:24 am

    Eh?

  3. David Quinn 02 September, 09 @ 10:41 am

    Hopefully that’s a comment on the video and not the blog post, which I thought by my standards was actually pretty coherent.

  4. Robin Brown 02 September, 09 @ 1:02 pm

    Yes, it’s on the video. I eventually managed to gain the gist of your blog post, if not the minutiae.

  5. Robin Brown 02 September, 09 @ 1:02 pm

    Oh yes, I also meant to say I though I saw a couple of Twitter memes on there.

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