blogging about TV
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The consensus from those I’ve spoken to is we wanted to know more about Davina McCall’s mother, not her great-grandfathers who were featured in the first episode of the seventh series of Who Do You Think You Are on BBC 1 last night.
Davina’s mother, a frenchwoman, breakfasted on ‘un double Ricard’ and was said, by [...]
So I’ve been working in an office again recently, which is something I’ve done only twice, briefly in the last seven years. And today the nice ladies I’m working with were chatting about BBC 1’s Famous, Rich and Homeless. Which is on right about now, as I type this.
So I thought I’d tune in to [...]
I would have posted this yesterday but I was rinsing vomit out of bedclothes. Not my own. Those days are (almost) over.
BBC 1’s Sunday night drama starring Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt, Five Minutes of Heaven, was good in a ‘norr’n Ireland, we-all-know-about-the-Troubles’ way but with a new twist. Although fictional, it was inspired by [...]
Gosh. No TV reviews on this site for ages. Fact is, I just haven’t watched anything worth reviewing for ages. Can’t be bothered with either Jeremy Paxman or the Victorians. Hasn’t TV mined the Victorians enough already? What did the Victorians do for us? Plenty. But I just don’t want to watch any more surveys [...]
You’ve got to hand it to BBC 1 controller, Jay Hunt. Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning she ably defended the decision to sack Carol Thatcher from The One Show for using the term “golliwog” in connection with a black tennis player. Hunt also quickly squashed comparisons with the offence Jonathan Ross caused [...]
That stay being short because the visitor, Dr Anne Turner, killed herself at one of the Swiss clinics which provides assisted suicide.
This true story was the basis of a 90-minute drama which aired on BBC 1 on Sunday night. Was it any good? Well, yes, it was because the subject matter was so difficult. A [...]
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