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Bargain Mad | Bargain Mad was YSTV's 2013 live shopping channel show, following previous attempts in [[Campus Shopping Network|1994]] and [[York Shopping Channel|2001]]. The show featured [[Christopher Parker|Chris Parker]] and [[Josh Hunter]] attempting to sell various "bargains", with viewers encouraged to purchase them via the use of hashtags (#) on Twitter. | ||
==Episode One== | ==Episode One== | ||
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===Format=== | ===Format=== | ||
The first episode placed Chris and Josh on stools on either side of the [ | The first episode placed Chris and Josh on stools on either side of the [[docs:Panasonic_Plasma_Screen | plasma]], which was used to display the Bargain Mad logo and VT's of the products being rotated on a table. New products were brought on to set by the Floor Manager for live demonstrations. Numerous puns were made along the theme of bargains ("bargain mad", "bargain up the wrong tree", etc.). | ||
===Products=== | ===Products=== | ||
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===="Local feminist writer"==== | ===="Local feminist writer"==== | ||
In the 2012-2013 academic year, a female first year student (who shall remain unnamed) led a campaign to stop YUSU's shop Your Shop selling The Sun newspaper, due to the misogynistic message that some students (notably the unratified FemSoc) believed was sent by the paper's page three feature. The motion was ultimately defeated 3:1 in YUSU's referendum | In the 2012-2013 academic year, a female first year student (who shall remain unnamed) led a campaign to stop YUSU's shop Your Shop selling The Sun newspaper, due to the misogynistic message that some students (notably the unratified FemSoc) believed was sent by the paper's page three feature. The motion was ultimately defeated 3:1 in YUSU's referendum. | ||
In the end, FemSoc didn't get ratified and had to change its name to "University of York Feminists" as it was deemed by YUSU to offer largely the same services as the union's Women's Committee. The Sun was quietly removed from Your Shop anyway, due to no-one actually buying it. | In the end, FemSoc didn't get ratified and had to change its name to "University of York Feminists" as it was deemed by YUSU to offer largely the same services as the union's Women's Committee. The Sun was quietly removed from Your Shop anyway, due to no-one actually buying it. | ||
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Despite having a relatively small live audience (broadcast in week 0, [[Summer Camp]], before most of the new freshers arrived) the episode was well received. The chair of ComedySoc commented on Facebook: "This is incorporating my favourite thing about TV shopping channels, the desperation to keep talking no matter what." On the episode's on-demand page of the website, one [[Helen Hobin|anonymous viewer]] called the presenters "the next Mochrie and Stiles", branding the show "a triumph". | Despite having a relatively small live audience (broadcast in week 0, [[Summer Camp]], before most of the new freshers arrived) the episode was well received. The chair of ComedySoc commented on Facebook: "This is incorporating my favourite thing about TV shopping channels, the desperation to keep talking no matter what." On the episode's on-demand page of the website, one [[Helen Hobin|anonymous viewer]] called the presenters "the next Mochrie and Stiles", branding the show "a triumph". | ||
==Demise== | |||
Tragically, shortly after the broadcast of the show's first episode, Chris and Josh were both killed in a freak accident involving the broken picture frame glass covering the studio floor, rendering any further episodes an impossibillity. According to Chris, anyway. | |||
{{YSTV Productions}} | {{YSTV Productions}} | ||
[[Category:Productions]] | [[Category:Productions]] | ||