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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
9. October 2008 Posted by Plattie
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...Around the World with Charley Boorman
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?
28. August 2008 Posted by Plattie
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...Steven Moffat Talks about the Doctor. Sort Of.
26. August 2008 Posted by Marcia
“I’m going to be saying ‘I’m not telling you’ a lot,” warns Steven Moffat, the newly appointed showrunner of Doctor Who. He may be happy to participate in a “conversation” at the Edinburgh TV festival (he was unwilling to use the festival’s preferred term of “master class”), but that doesn’t mean he’s going to tell [...]
Continue reading...Lowering the Tone with Snog, Marry, Avoid
14. August 2008 Posted by Plattie
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
31. July 2008 Posted by Plattie
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...Out of Africa with the BBC
17. July 2008 Posted by Plattie
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...End of the Line [Doctor Who]
10. July 2008 Posted by Anna
Doctor Who, S04 E13: Journey’s End This week: now we know where Russell T Davies gets his ideas - bad fanfic! Anna is disappointed by the Doctor Who finalé.
Continue reading...The Gang’s All Here [Doctor Who]
3. July 2008 Posted by Anna
Doctor Who, S04 E12: The Stolen Earth The week: everyone from the extended Whoniverse turns up in one of the best episodes of Doctor Who ever.
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