The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Huge wrote:
On 2007-06-08, Stuart Noble wrote:
Maris wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:36:54 GMT, Lobster
wrote:

C4 is driving me nuts with this - in previous series they've had
so-called 'update' episodes on previous punters which they've
tagged on to the end of the actual series proper... and they're
rubbish because they're simply repeats with about 5 mins of new
material appended at the very end.

But for this series, presumably because they've sussed that the
Beeny fans switched off after the end of the new episodes, they
seem to be interspersing these 'updates' throughout the series, so
you settle down with a tin of Boddington's to watch, only to find
it's another bloody repeat.

Something Must Be Done, I say. Maybe I'll start a petition on the
No 10 website.

David

I agree. I settle down for a great evening's viewing - Property Ladder
followed by Apprentice followed by discussion about Apprentice
That's a good night?

My thinking exactly.

PL long since passed it's "Sell By" date and "The Apprentice" was utter
crap from the beginning.

Hear hear!

There's a vicious spiral going on ion TV right now. People are drifting
away from the main 5 channels, revenues are down, and so there is less
money to spend on quality programmes: Th result is a descent into banal
human conflict/interest stuff that is engineered to display (and select)
people at their worst.

Big Brother.
Trisha.
Beeny.
Grand designs.
The apprentice.
Corry street
East Enders.
Pop idol


you name it, its all about people behaving badly, or stupidly.
Showing am alarming tendency of an inverse ratio of competence to
confidence.

Thank god its still sometimes possible to settle in for an hours
interesting viewing on the development of the machine gun, or somesuch.

Even Time team - which was actually not that bad apart from the antics
of that little git Robinson - how accurately he was typecast in Black
Adder - is now full of 'human interest' ****e..the inter team
conflicts, the sketching of improbable saxons from a fragment of
bone..whereas the fact is that most digs do little or nothing to advance
the cause of the understanding of history whatsoever, but are simply
jolly good ways of getting a bit of exercise, and some time in at the
boozer amongst a bunch of like minded chums.

I mean when yu look back fondly at Anneka Rice's Bum on 'treasure hunt'
- a program that never even pretended to have any intellectual content
whatsoever, its a mark of desperation..

And as for Springwatch....