british isles, a natural history

[jeffhaskeft]

what a fab series this is presented by alan titchmarch.

[Bob Singleton]

You must be kidding!!!!

This is yet another programme that proves my point that no Yorkshireman should EVER be seen presenting on television...

He knows NOTHING about the subject and is unable to say anything worth listening to (example: "It's so beautiful.... I wish I could describe it"). However, his ego is so huge (typical Tyke) that it is very much presenter-led.

What a shame David Attenborough, or someone similar, wasn't chosen!

[Officer Dibble]

Yes, although it pains me to say it (being a fellow Tyke) I have to agree. It was the first time I had watched the program and I found it to be disappointingly lightweight. It was skipping all over the place, never pausing to examine an issue in any detail. In fact I felt mildly offended and irritated, not by Allan, who gives the impression of being an open, agreeable, sort of chap (ego or not) but by a program that was obviously commissioned with Chavs in mind (or any other social groups with short, shallow, attention spans). We've seen this kind of thing before - anything with Prof Robert Winston at the helm, for instance.

The BBC shouldn't be patronising and pandering to the lowest common denominators. That?s what ITV is for. They should instead be maintaining standards of excellence, while at the same time attempting to engage those channel hoppers who might not necessarily think they want to watch a natural history program (or anything else that's 'difficult') but once there, would find themselves ensnared in a world of wonder and fascinating facts.

Officer Dibble

[The Last Word]

Flimsy schedule-filler with a few nice shots. Why 9pm though? Like a lot of so-called adult factual programmes these days, I got the impression this is something that would benefit children more. Alan T's enfeebled descriptive skills mean I now need not worry what his novels might be like.

[steve56]

there has been lots of these sort of programmes on the bbc througout the years most were filmed for bbc schools tv yrs ago.

[Pervert]

The photography is as superb as you'd expect from the BBC Natural History unit out of Bristol. There's some interesting stuff touched upon, but it lacks in focus and needs a presenter with some gravitas.

[Bob Singleton]

The problem is that most of us have more than just the terestrial channels to choose from.

Put "Life on Earth" between Eastenders and Only Fools and Horses and most people will watch it even though it's the "intellectual" filler between two more populist programmes.

However, because there are so many more channels to choose from now, many people won't stay with BBC1, but will channel hop instead. So the only way they can get an audience is by putting in a bloke that everyone's heard of, that many seem to like (huh???), and pander to the lowest common denominator.

Mostly it is the fault of Greg Dyke, that arch populist who brought us Roland Rat!!! Whilst I think it was wrong that he was forced out of the BBC over the Hutton report, he should never have been made director general in the first place, as the BBC was never going to NOT dumb-down under him!

[jj]

Iss crap.

[Bob Singleton]

magoo wrote:

> Whats all this Tyke bashing? Is Bob perchance a Lancashire lad?

You don't need to come from Lancashire to loath and despise Tykes.... here are just a few examples of why ethnic cleasing should be encouraged in a north western part of England:

Alan Titchmarsh
Geoffrey Boycott
Harold Wilson
Bernard Ingham
Michael Parkinson
Jeremy Clarkson
Fred Trueman
Margaret Drabble
Dennis Healey
Jeremy Paxman
Peter Stringfellow
Paul Shane
The Bronte Sisters
Peter Sutcliffe

If Pol Pot and Adolf Hitler had been born in Britain, they'd have been Yorkshiremen, too!!!