blogging about TV
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 [...]
Ooh. Ow. That was painful. Watching Dominic Savage’s Freefall on BBC 2 last night. Because we knew from the write-ups beforehand and from the way the drama was set up that the mustachioed schmuck, who wasn’t really a schmuck at all, would get done over by the wanker in the sharp suit who sold him [...]
“Diverting but pointless,” said the Guardian Guide preview. And after watching two hours of BBC 2’s The Trouble With Working Women last night and on Monday, I’d have to agree.
The programme, fronted by the always smiley Sophie Raworth and the unwittingly sexist Justin Rowlatt, reached some very soft conclusions which our old friend Basil Fawlty [...]
Sorry about the picture of Michael Portillo (above). Who’d have thunk I’ve have his fatty features squished onto my pages?
But he was on BBC 2 last night, presenting an ep of Horizon which has found its way onto my radar this series in a way it never has before. Maybe it’s the sleb presenters (David [...]
BBC 2 drama Best - His Mother’s Son, about George Best, his mother and their futile battles with alcoholism, touched a number of raw nerves for anyone with alcoholism in the family. I say “alcoholism”. Others might say liking a drink or three. It’s all a bit of a blur - that’s the nature of [...]
Perhaps consciously playing on the title Who Do You Think You Are? which has also featured comedian David Baddiel in a serious role, last night’s Horizon saw Baddiel investigating the British education system and asking whether it can maximise both a child’s intellectual potential and their happiness at the same time.
A worthy question and one [...]
Nice idea for a programme: ex-Royal Marine and expert diver Monty Halls spends six months on the remote Scottish west coast. But this Sunday night BBC 2 show is, from my viewing of episode three, very badly made.
Monty spent episode three looking for basking sharks. Fortunately he found one and we just about got to [...]
Having watched Margaret last night on BBC 2 - well, having watched the first minute before switching to ER on More4 and switching back to Margaret during the ad breaks for an update, then watching the final hour uninterrupted - I have this to say.
People have worked for months, if not years, putting that BBC [...]
Someone out there is desperate to know whether Griff Rhys Jones is gay. I don’t why he or she thinks he might be but for the last few days the search terms ‘griff rhys jones gay’ and ‘is griff rhys jones gay?’ have repeatedly referred someone, maybe more than one person, to my site. The [...]
I’m not ‘doing’ Nigella this year. Her Christmas Kitchen series started on BBC 2 last week with more than 3m viewers but is in fact only three new films and two old ones, repeated from “the hit 2006 series of the same name”. Not for me to accuse the BBC and Ms Lawson of milking [...]
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