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Plattie is Pop Vultures’ London-based BBC correspondent. She has a deep and abiding respect for the Beeb, based on a childhood in which her mum wouldn’t let her watch any of the other channels because they ‘weren’t educational’. Now, Plattie has seen Strictly Come Dancing, so she questions the idea that everything the BBC produces can be described as ‘educational’, but she does know that most of it is good, a lot of it is great, and some of it is so terrible that it has a genius all its own.
Road Tripping With The BBC
I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but there’s this thing going on in America at the moment called a Presidential Election. It’s kind of a big deal, apparently. And in recognition of that fact, the BBC has busted out its big guns and sent two of its finest small-screen stars across the pond, to report [...]
Continue reading...Big Ideas and Humiliating Holes
Thursday, October 9, 2008
I am forced to write a post of two parts this week, because the BBC has been tickling my fancy at both ends of the quality spectrum recently. First they build me up with an intelligent and thought-provoking documentary, presented by the thinking woman’s crumpet, James May. And then they bring me plummeting back down [...]
Continue reading...Why I Hate British Soaps
Thursday, September 25, 2008
I hate British soaps. Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, the late, lamented Brookside, even that young upstart soap, Hollyoaks. I hate them all. And what is more, I cannot for the life of me fathom why everybody else doesn’t hate them as well. But Eastenders regularly attracts in the region of 8.4 million viewers for every revolting [...]
Continue reading...Around the World with Charley Boorman
Thursday, September 11, 2008
When I first heard that Charley Boorman, of the famous Long Way Down and Long Way Round travel shows, was doing a new series by himself, I was extremely dubious. The Long Way shows, starring Ewan McGregor and chum getting up to lots of good blokey fun while travelling around the world on motorbikes, have [...]
Continue reading...I’m A Celebrity, Let Me…Conduct?
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Maestro, BBC2’s new celebrity conducting show, is reality TV gone highbrow. And yes, you did read that right. It’s a show in which celebrities (and I use that term relatively loosely) compete against each other to see who is the best at conducting the BBC symphony orchestra. In traditional style, they go up against a panel [...]
Continue reading...Lowering the Tone with Snog, Marry, Avoid
Thursday, August 14, 2008
With the new reality show Snog, Marry, Avoid, the BBC is doing its very best to destroy its image as a purveyor of tasteful programming. This is a dreadful TV show. Of course it is. Look at the premise – young women who wear too much makeup are wheeled in-front of a computerised voice called [...]
Continue reading...Burn Up Fails to Ignite
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Taking a break this week from your regularly-scheduled reality-show hilarity, I’ve been watching the BBC’s new big budget drama Burn Up, an extravaganza of well-known actors, tight scripting and global filming locations, all about everybody’s favourite hot topic – climate change. This two-part drama tells the story of Tom McConnell, a handsome young executive of Arrow [...]
Continue reading...Meet The X-Files
Friday, July 25, 2008
With the second X-Files movie premiering in the US, our resident X-Files addict, Plattie, takes a look back at how it all began with a recap of the very first episode. The X-Files, S01 E00: Pilot We begin, for the first and only time, with a disclaimer informing us that ‘the following story is inspired by [...]
Continue reading...Out of Africa with the BBC
Thursday, July 17, 2008
So, last time I posted I wrote about the BBC’s new reality show to find a disabled super model, and you might have thought that the Beeb had reached the pinnacle of the bizarre with that show, but you would be wrong. New heights on bizzaro mountain have been reached this week, with BBC 2’s [...]
Continue reading...Model Behaviour on the BBC
Thursday, July 3, 2008
I am a massive fan of America’s Next Top Model, and the various national off-shoots it has spawned such as Britain’s Next Top Model and Australia’s Next Top Model. I could (and will) quite happily sit on my arse all day long, munching junk food and watching dumb skinny girls fight with each other over [...]
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