D2.3 Interim Report on Pilot Services - the School of Engineering ...

Catalan sitcoms Plats Bruts —later released in DVD format— and L’un per l’altre, andthe Catalan series Majoria absoluta.In 2006 a new project was launched and the audio description of La Gran Pel·lícula(The Big Film, a selection of box-office successes broadcast on Friday night) started tobe aired weekly. The first publicised film was Something to Talk About (February 16 th2006), followed by The Majestic and The Pledge, among many others. An unannouncedAD of the film Mystic River had been broadcast for testing purposes, so that the Catalanassociation for the blind and visually impaired, ACCDV, and the Spanish associationONCE could give feed-back to the television network about the service.The AD of a weekly film has been expanded in 2008 with the AD of three children’sprogrammes which are shown over the week-end: Hotel Zombie, Being Eve and KingArthur’s Disasters, and the Catalan mini-series Serrallonga, which will soon beavailable on DVD. Whilst in 2007 81 hours of television were audio described, in 2008this had increased to 111 hours, and TVC’s aim is to offer 160 hours of audio describedtelevision in 2009, which represents approximately 4% of the new emissions broadcaston its main channel, TV3.Page 49