Guy King wrote:
The message
from Adrian Brentnall adrian-the papers and the
contains these words:
Not knocking the fellow - but, like so many of these programmes,
there's a strong 'directorial' influence - and the entertainment part
always seems to win over the informative.
That sums up just about everything wrong with modern telly.
Quite right. Leave your video recorder on at night over the weekends to
capture the OU output these days. They are getting swamped by "What the
Romans did for us" sort of dumb.
I quite like those sorts of things, maybe as infil they are OK but
there does seem to be a move to undo any "pushing the envelope"
intentions that were the formats of the stuff from yesteryear.
Or am I just missing the bald, long haired men, with wide spotty ties
in huge shirt collars?