BT ad help

[sene28]

Ok, I've already posted this before in my first post but I cant find it... It may have been deleted , but anyways, I really need your views on the new BT ads (kris marshall) and old ads (maureen lipman). Do you love 'em, hate 'em etc etc stuff like that. Oh and do you think they represent family life of the times (i.e the new ones being about single parents)

Please give your views, whatever they are, as I need them for research in my alevel media course. I will post back to you, maybe to ask you about other points you may raise
All replies will be appreciated

Thankyou Thankyou

[Steven]

It's a bit old, but this thread might help: lowculture.proboards34.com/index.cgi?board=ads&action=display&thread=1151881835&page=1

And just because I can never say it enough times, I hate the Kris Marshall adverts with all the colour bleached out of them, implying that if you sign up to BT you too can enjoy such a hideously beige existence. I think they're about the only advert ever to make me consider cancelling a contract with one of my utilities purely because the advert was so dreadful. I wouldn't say I consider it particularly representative of the times, largely because I don't find the family in the ads especially convincing.

I liked the Maureen Lipman ads, but I'm not sure how much of that is rose-tinted gazing into the past, when everything was obviously better, on my part.

[audrey notwhatsheusedtobe]

I found the Maureen Lipman ones very annoying and depressing. I don't mind the Kris Marshall ones so much, as I quite like him as an individual. Although the recent one with the teenagers *shock* watching a film and opening a bottle of fizzy juice and the mum being horrified, is a tad unrealistic.

[Joel]

audreyhorne said:

I found the Maureen Lipman ones very annoying and depressing. I don't mind the Kris Marshall ones so much, as I quite like him as an individual. Although the recent one with the teenagers *shock* watching a film and opening a bottle of fizzy juice and the mum being horrified, is a tad unrealistic.

Absolutely. Oh my god, he had friends round! In the middle of the afternoon! What kind of Victorian set-up are they running? He's hardly snorting coke off hookers. The new ones basically say, 'You too can have a boring shrew of a wife or an incompetent tosswit of a stepdad, so long as you use BT.'

The old ones were awful too, of course. 'An ology!' Shut up, Lipman.

I'm also not convinced you're an actual teenager, and think you might be some PR agency shill conducting some very lazy research, which you will then pass off as a 'survey'.

[Devil In Your Car]

The memories of the Bob Hoskins ads still make me feel all angry inside. (Although he would have been quite a good choice if they had wanted to go down the coke-and-hookers route).

[sene28]

These are all really helpful, thanks a lot people!! Keep 'em coming =]

[QuincyMD]

I'm old enough to remember Busby - he was and always will be the face of telephones in the UK.

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