To be hurt and annoyed at being dropped by the BBC?

In reply to the PP's saying it's not possible. It is possible.

I work on tv documentaries and we sometimes go back to the same location to film pickups after we're part way through the edit. This helps us to be more targeted with the final bits of filming.

The replacement may have been a member of production, not an actor.

Yes, budgets are TIGHT, but Directors are not the most budget / schedule conscious, as much as we try to get them to be!!

That being said, I've never heard of anything like this before! But maybe the producer was plain lazy. Or maybe someone had a transcript of the original interview, passed it on, and the instruction to re-write it was forgotten.

OP may have signed a release form stating they can use the contribution in any way shape or form. But if the producers did knowingly re-use her script then they should have at least told her they were doing so, and the reasons why. They could have offered a token fee as a nice gesture if they couldn't be arsed to re-write it. And they could have added her to the 'With Thanks To' section of the end credits.

Was It actually verbatim what you wrote, or was she talking about the exact same thing? Because if you were discussing historical fact, there are only so many ways to say “this is Hever Castle, built in 1270. Home to the Boleyn family in the 1400s, it was later home to the Astor family” or whatever.

What does that even mean fgs ....what does 'putting it on tik tok' achieve??

Agreed

Ha! BBC and their strict rules.

I really wouldn’t worry..,

Are you sure this happened OP? It sounds like something my aunt would say but she's half in lala-land most of the time. If it happened put in a formal complaint to the BBC.

Are you sure it wasn't a production company trying to sell in something to the BBC? Who contacted you? Does he work for the BBC?

And given in the state the industry is in at the moment, there's no way they had the budget either. If this happened, they spent thousands to reshoot, which would only happen in really extreme circumstances. I can't think of a situation where I've had to do that in 20 years working in factual TV.

That’s awful op. I’m sorry they did that to you.

Also they’d never just rehash your words, they’re not idiots.

The other woman recited what OP had written word for word🤨

Yes. This sounds like BBC-bashing porkies. Especially as it sounds like local news/programming, where there’s fuck all money being spent. They simply don’t have the time or cash to be revisiting a site to re-film a VT or segment with someone ‘more attractive’.

I’ve worked in/with the media and I can tell you now that your appearance would not have been the reason you were dropped.

Guests and items get dropped from shows at the last minute all the time, honestly. I’ve been a publicist and had extremely glamorous actors ditched from news and feature shows at the last minute too.

Some people are also just more engaging speakers than others. In my previous job, the expert the Beeb always asked me for when contacting my organisation was very much not young or pretty - she was quite eccentric in fact - but just an absolute natural at interviews.

It happened to my DH. He is an expert in his field. They came and interviewed him on camera at his place of work. 3 days later they broadcast an interview with a young man in a suit and he repeated what my DH had said. They didn’t even try to mix it up a bit - it was literally word for word.
DH has no clue who he was - and he knows everyone who knows anything in this field.
He assumes he was a young grad who was probably related to the producer.

I’m sorry this happened to you OP. DH was furious but also a little sad that day. It sucks when the realisation hits you that you’ve become invisible. Hold your head high fuck ‘em all 💐

I doubt whether it was a journalistic piece. Local history is very rarely current news. It sounds more like a piece for a magazine type format.

Do complain but check first if it was the bbc or a production company making a programme, then you would need to complain to them

To be fair, Mumsnet is exceptional at the AmDram. Isn’t that how Motherland came into existence? Not sure what the hook of this thread is though.

Quite. Unprincipled and certainly not champions of women. The arrogance of being the national broadcaster seems to have lead to complacency and unprofessionalism.

I realise how dramatic this is going to sound but I literally gasped aloud when I got to the bit where you said you’d been replaced AND they’d plagiarised your work, I’d be fuming!

No one is denying that the media (not just the BBC) have covered up some horrific events, but in terms of putting a face on camera, no I’m still 🤨 about this post.

Sorry op. If the op looked awkward on the video why would they put it on TV. It would make more economical sense to find an actress who can repeat what op has said. Maybe if they paid op they would have used the footage?

I'd love to have faith in the BBC but I don't any more. What with the Gregg Wallace business etc, and other things I've heard about (first hand), I think they're a load of unprincipled chancers most of the time.

They could feed the sound into a speech to text programme and produce a script for someone else to deliver in that way.

I presume it was a piece to camera rather than an interview. Cued up by a presenter "So, Lady, tell us about the churchyard in Hamlet-on-the-wold".

I feel so upset reading this. That is appalling. I feel proper rage at this. I bet you looked great and spoke knowledgeably - they are just ageist and pathetic. Rage!!

That may well be why they didn't use the OP's piece to camera but that still doesn't absolve them for using the OP's exact presentation without acknowledgement.