Omnibus (UK TV series)

Omnibus is an arts-based British documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series Monitor.

It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards.

Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor (1975), a profile of David Bowie; Rene Magritte (1979), a graduate film by David Wheatley; “Madonna: Behind the American dream” (1990), a film produced by Nadia Hagger; and a profile of British film director Ridley Scott (1992).

For one season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman.

In 2001, the BBC announced that the programme was being switched to BBC2, prompting accusations that the Corporation was further marginalising its arts programming. BBC controller of arts commissioning Roly Keating defended the move, saying "the documentary strand will be able to tackle a wider range of subjects." Regarded as its "flagship arts programme", Omnibus was one of only two regular arts platforms broadcast at the time by the BBC.

Omnibus (broadcast)

An omnibus (or omnibus edition) is a compilation of daily television or radio episodes that is re-broadcast during the following weekend. The term has been most frequently used in the United Kingdom, though it has also been used in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. An omnibus is similar to, but distinct from, what is called a marathon in other countries. In an omnibus, individual episodes are edited together into a single programme, whereas in a marathon the episodes are aired separately but in sequence.

Brookside was the first television soap to have what was called an omnibus edition, in 1991; it continued until the series ended in 2003. EastEnders introduced the equivalent of an omnibus edition starting in the 1980s, but the term "omnibus" was not used until the 1990s.

United Kingdom

Programs that are or have been transmitted in omnibus format in Britain include:

Television:

Radio:

  • The Archers
  • Internet:

  • EastEnders: E20 (January 2010 on BBC Red Button and BBC iPlayer, April 2010–present on BBC Three)
  • Omnibus (U.S. TV series)

    Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.

    History

    Omnibus was created by the Ford Foundation, which sought to increase the education level of the American public. The show was conceived by James Webb Young who hired Robert Saudek as producer. Saudek believed that Omnibus could "raise the level of American taste" with educational entertainment.

    The show was broadcast live, primarily on Sunday afternoons at 4:00pm EST, from November 9, 1952 until 1961. Omnibus originally aired on CBS, and later on Sunday evenings on ABC. The show was never commercially viable on its own, and sources of funding dwindled after the Ford Foundation ended its sponsorship in 1957. That year, the program moved to NBC, where it was irregularly scheduled until 1961.The show's first season had an audience of 4 million, which grew to 5.7 million at its peak in 1957. ABC aired a brief revival of the series in 1981.

    The series won more than 65 awards, including seven Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards. The series is held at The Library of Congress and Global ImageWorks, among other archives. The Bernstein Omnibus programs were released in a 4-DVD set for Region 1 and Region 2 in 2010.

    Gate

    A gate or gateway is a point of entry to a space enclosed by walls, or a moderately sized opening in some sort of fence. Gates may prevent or control the entry or exit of individuals, or they may be merely decorative. Other terms for gate include yett and port. The word derives from the old Norse "gata", meaning road or path, and originally referred to the gap in the wall or fence, rather than the barrier which closed it. The moving part or parts of a gateway may be called "doors", but used for the whole point of entry door usually refers to the entry to a building, or an internal opening between different rooms.

    A gate may have a latch to keep it from swinging and a lock for security. Larger gates can be used for a whole building, such as a castle or fortified town, or the actual doors that block entry through the gatehouse. Today, many gate doors are opened by an automated gate operator.

    Types

    Types of gates include:

  • Baby gate
  • City gate
  • Hampshire gate
  • Kissing gate
  • Lychgate
  • Mon, Japanese gates of many varieties including the Torii
  • Gate (disambiguation)

    A gate is an opening in a wall or fence fitted with a moveable barrier allowing it to be closed.

    Gate or GATE may also refer to:

    Engineering

    Electronics

  • Gate (transistor), terminal of a field effect transistor
  • Logic gate, a functional building block in digital logic such as "and", "or", or "not"
  • Noise gate, a high-quality audio squelch control for reducing noise
  • Range gate, the area encompassed by one pixel of radar data
  • Hydraulics

  • Gate valve, a valve that opens by lifting a wedge out of the path of the fluid
  • Gate (engineering) a movable structure used to control the flow of fluid in a pipe or channel
  • Gate (water transport), the watertight door that seals off a chamber of a lock
  • Other

  • Gate, a sprue molding channel which carries molten metal into a mold
  • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, an entrance examination for admission to postgraduate courses in India
  • Media and entertainment

  • Gate (solitaire), a solitaire card game
  • Gåte, a Norwegian band
  • GATE, a fictional company Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell works for in season 4 of the TV series Prison Break
  • Gate (album)

    Gate is a compilation album by German electronic composer Peter Frohmader, released in 1995 by Atonal Records.

    Track listing

    All music composed by Peter Frohmader.

    Personnel

    Adapted from the Gate liner notes.

  • Peter Frohmader fretless bass guitar, sampler, synthesizer, production
  • Release history

    References

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