Flying Penguins Documentary Prank on BBC
The Flying Penguins Documentary hosted by Terry Jones, was a brilliant and well produced April Fools Day prank by the BBC to promote the BBC iPlayer.
Here’s a behind the scenes look for the Flying Penguins Documentary prank.
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on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 11:19 am
They should have had the penguins fly to the spaghetti farms.
on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Us Brits weren’t fooled. Well, we may have been, but only for a minute…
on Friday, April 4th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Hi
I noticed that you had the BBC i player penguin ad on your site.
I am contacting you from the Ad agency who made the ad and would just like to make you aware that the makers of the ad are as follows:
• Advertising Agency: RKCR/Y&R
• Creative Director: Mark Roalfe
• Writer: Paul Silburn
• Director: Vince Squibb
• Planner: Megan Thomson
• Account Director: Fiona Richards
• Media Company: BBC Media Planning
• Media Planner: Helen Weeks
• Production Company: Red Bee
• Producer - Sarah Caddy
We would be extremely grateful if you would be able to pop our name next to this ad as it has got into the wrong hands already and we want to prevent this from happening.
Thank in advance
Samanatha Peace
on Friday, April 4th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Samanatha - This sounds like and issue between RKCR/Y&R & BBC.
Have you contacted the BBC directly? The best way to prevent any kind of confusion would be to have the BBC update their description on YouTube with that information. Even better, you could ask them to re-upload the video and provide credit on ad itself.
Also, what do you mean by “this ad as it has got into the wrong hands”? The ad is being freely distributed online by the BBC. What kind of “wrong hands” are you referring to?