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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
‘Twere now to be most happy.
Oh god, I don’t really mean that. It’s just that it’s been a good day, what with it being my birthday ‘n all and getting some lovely presents, some of which I bought for myself.
Including, finally, a box set of the complete series of The West Wing! One of my [...]
More than one person (yes, OK, it was two people) has asked me why I watch so much crap TV. I know, media people, it’s incredible to you and me to comprehend but some folk out there in the “real world” with “real jobs” and “real lives” don’t appreciate your efforts at churning out expensive, [...]
Channel 4’s drama of that name, shown on Monday, was about the secret talks which led to negotiations between the African National Congress and South African government of the early 1990s, which in turn led to a democratic, non-racial election in 1994 and Nelson Mandela’s rise to power.
That amounts to a lot of talking and the joy [...]
Here goes with yet another badly thought-out, hastily written post, tapped straight into the ‘write post’ facility because I can rarely be bothered to write it all out first in Word and then (lawks a-mercy) actually check my copy before publishing it.
A few thoughts on the third and final part of C4’s The Hospital, which [...]
Yes, within me lurks the sort of devil that might read the Daily Mail. The sort of person who, when confronted with images of vulnerable, poorly educated people enduring harsh social disadvantages, might say: “They shouldn’t be allowed to breed.”
This inner devil came out for about 20 minutes last night, at the start of the second instalment [...]
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