An excellent and most welcome extension to the BBC's Genome Project lands today - a searchable index of 220,000 playable programmes, both radio and tv.
The system is brilliant - but the archive is weak in some areas (like the current system of tv commissioning). A search for 'Jazz' in tv programmes produces 30 results - the first four are indeed, programmes with some jazz in them, but from position 5, we go on to The Mighty Boosh, where a character is a 'jazz fan'; Strike, where there is a character called Jazz Cartier, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, with Will Smith's bestie, Jazz. No failing in the metadata, but a sorry reflection of the Corporation's attitude to jazz on tv this century.
Hello!
ReplyDeleteI work on the new BBC Programme Index and spotted your post. Thanks for posting!
In case it is helpful, here are some search queries that return more 'jazz' results:
TV and Radio programmes:
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=-last&filt=100006&q=jazz#top
TV only:
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=-last&filt=100006%2Cis_tv&q=jazz#top
513 currently playable programmes:
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=-last&filt=100006&playable=1&q=jazz#top
Hope that helps!
Jake