Switch on the TV we may pick him up on Channel Two…
Thought I’d do a quick round-up of a few bits I’ve spotted on TV in the UK this week. First up is an advert for the 3CD UMTV/EMI TV compilation, Best Of British, which contains Life On Mars?.
The ad features an animation of a handful of the sixty British artists that appear on the CD, with a snippet of their featured song.
As you can see, they have portrayed Bowie as he is in the video for Life On Mars?, albeit with an Aladdin Sane flash on his phizog…and I’m sure you’ve all noticed that they’ve used the wrong telephone box too…That’s a K6, not a K2…but you knew that.
Next up is one of the new iPhone 4 adverts for the ‘If you don’t have an iPhone’ campaign.
It’s only 30 seconds long, but the Best of Bowie gets a couple of onscreen seconds which can only help spread the word. You can view it
Finally, this one is hard to talk about if you’re not already familiar with Channel 4’s brilliant new comedy, the hilarious CAMPUS…
If you’ve been watching it, you will know where this is leading, if you haven’t, get yourself acquainted now via
CAMPUS concerns itself with the often surreal goings on at KIRKE University and the latest instalment (episode four: Come Together) sees the sexually persistent Professor of English Lit, Matt Beer, closing in on the rather delicate Senior Maths Lecturer, Imogen Moffatt, with the help of David Bowie’s Suffragette City.
Without giving too much away, around 21 minutes into the episode we see Imogen strolling around the campus grounds, completely lost to the world around her, listening to Ann-Margret‘s What Am I Supposed To Do? via her iPod.
The tranquillity is shattered by jump cuts between Imogen and the predatory Matt Beer enjoying Suffragette City on his own iPod.
When he spies Imogen, Matt approaches her and removes her ear pieces while inserting his own into her ears during the line: “She’s a total blam blam”.
He then sweeps her off into a tango-like dance to the song, much to the clear delight of them both.
Check it out