blogging about TV
No picture because… well, just because. But Channel 4’s Confessions of a Traffic Warden made by independent production company Betty made me a bit sad.
Don’t get me wrong. It was a good programme. Too good, really. Following a rookie traffic warden in the London borough of Westminster and concentraing mainly on Durga who had recently [...]
Had I but world enough, and time, I might have written about the following in the past few weeks.
Heston Blumenthal’s return to Little Chef on Channel 4 to see if his new menu and the new-look restaurant, trialled at the A303’s very own Popham services, was a success. Clearly, this allowed for plenty of footage [...]
Hot on the heels of that last post comes a Channel 4 season of films, Race: Science’s Last Taboo and in particular last night’s documentary presented by Rageh Omaar on race and intelligence.
The film tackled the taboo question of whether there is a racial hierarchy in intelligence, with Asians, Europeans and Africans in roughly that order.
Omaar [...]
Was the BBC right to invite BNP leader Nick Griffin onto Question Time on Thursday? Once there, was he a victim, barracked by the panel and audience alike as they reacted to his inability to explain his denial of the Holocaust?
Views differ. But one thing is for sure. The lid has ricocheted off a simmering [...]
Time to go on record and say that, however much I usually love natural history programmes - especially if they are narrated by David Attenborough, I do not really like watching reptiles very much. Or spiders.
Monday’s edition of Life, BBC 1’s ambitious 10-part series which took three years to film and is indeed narrated by [...]
Who saw The Red Lion on Channel 4 last night? I was intrigued. A Cutting Edge documentary, it was basically an hour-long advert for pubs and the joys of drinking.
Ostensibly a look at the role of the pub in British culture, The Red Lion (apparently the most popular pub name in England) visited several pubs [...]
As yesterday was officially the start of a new era (at least in my mind because my youngest daughter started school full-time), I will let you into a little secret.
I’m going to write a novel.
Of course, this isn’t nearly as momentous as it sounds. There is, as just about everyone will tell you, a [...]
Whoa! We skiied a little off piste with that last post. Please to forgive. It’s just that I’ve been doing more campaigning than blogging in recent weeks and wanted somewhere to put the results. God knows if we’ll make the local media.
Meanwhile, back on TV, can I just say how much I’m enjoying The Last [...]
CONGESTION AND HGVs ARE TOP TRAFFIC CONCERNS WITH RESIDENTS TOO SCARED TO WALK TO SHOPS
Crewkerne residents think congestion, heavy goods vehicles and speeding are major problems in the town and most don’t feel safewalking around because of the traffic, according to a new survey.
Most people say traffic is also hitting trade in the [...]
So Big Brother is being evicted from the C4 schedules and it’s time to measure its legacy. It’s not all bad. BB certainly did revolutionise TV programming: along with coverage of Wimbledon and Glastonbury, it helped popularise the use of the “red button” to access other video streams; it also brought in phone voting, connecting [...]
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