BBC iPlayer is a ****

SpicyDuck · 12 Jun 2008 at 08:03

For the whole season of The Apprentice, I had made sure I never found out who had been fired, before I got a chance to watch it and find out for myself first.

Skip to the final episode in the season, and I saw that it was available on the BBC's iPlayer, online. So I get all excited, make a cup of tea, sit back, relax and allow the streaming to begin. Except, this time (of many others), the player decides to go a little loopy, and it skips, right to the end of the episode.

And what do I hear?

Alert! Spoiler Below.

"Lee, you're hired!".

:mad:

shifty_uk · 12 Jun 2008 at 08:05

This Episode isn't even on Iplayer yet? All I have is "The Apprentice: You're hired" which is basically them discussing who won it.....where the hell is the actual episode....got a link?

SpicyDuck · 12 Jun 2008 at 08:07

Yep, here.

It just has a different title format; it took me a while to find it, too!

Haircut · 12 Jun 2008 at 08:07

And yet you seem to have no problem spoiling it for others in this thread.

MoNkeE · 12 Jun 2008 at 08:08

And just to ruin it for anyone that hasn't got round to watching it on Sky Plus yet, you've just told us who's won! :angry:

OvertoneBliss in not-thinking-before-typing shocker

alexakasloth · 12 Jun 2008 at 08:09

You might want to add a spoiler warning in the title.

SpicyDuck · 12 Jun 2008 at 08:11

Woops! Jeez, sorry!

Looks like I'm a candidate for a job working with the iPlayer people! Edited original post.

FrostedNipple · 12 Jun 2008 at 08:11

OMG LEE IS HIRED?

shifty_uk · 12 Jun 2008 at 08:11

OvertoneBliss said:
Yep, here.

It just has a different title format; it took me a while to find it, too!

That's the apprentice, your fired? It just has Alex and Helene discussing their firing.

SpicyDuck · 12 Jun 2008 at 08:13

Not here. How odd.

For me, it streams the final episode of the Apprentice. :confused:

Participant · 12 Jun 2008 at 09:41

OvertoneBliss said:
Woops! Jeez, sorry!

Looks like I'm a candidate for a job working with the iPlayer people! Edited original post.

You utter fool

.

How can you post this thread whilst failing to consider that you're doing exactly the same to other people. :confused:

Berserker · 12 Jun 2008 at 09:47

The BBC in 'messing up' shocker.

Here's the right link -> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00cbhb0.shtml

Ignore the title. No wonder the links got confused.

Edit - even that link seems a bit unreliable, so dunno what's going on. :/

platypus · 12 Jun 2008 at 09:50

Surely its a benefit if you miss out 59 minutes of crap just to find out what the end result was?

Booner! · 12 Jun 2008 at 09:52

FrostedNipple said:
OMG LEE IS HIRED?

Shhhh!

unwashed potato! · 12 Jun 2008 at 10:22

anyone know why it takes bbc so long to put episodes online? i waited until 1 last night hoping it would pop up on front page but it never did. i was tempted to go on a search but that happened before and i found out who left before starting the episode

Berserker · 12 Jun 2008 at 10:26

Usually it takes 3 hours or so, but this time they messed up the title so you may have missed it.

Energize · 12 Jun 2008 at 10:28

ffs spoiler in the first post.

rtm

Vulcan · 12 Jun 2008 at 10:41

OvertoneBliss said:
Edited original post.

Unless you have a really small monitor, you can still see the bottom of the post making it rather pointless.

[TW]Fox · 12 Jun 2008 at 11:06

Haircut said:
And yet you seem to have no problem spoiling it for others in this thread.

Give him a break, it was televised yesterday, if you couldn't be bothered to watch it thats frankly your problem not his.

james.miller · 12 Jun 2008 at 11:09

at least i dont have to watch the rest of the season