The BBC

i did too. first ep of this was pretty good i thought. maggie g's accent is surprisingly good

I didn't like the first episode at all. No sign of any characters I'd support/like/be interested in. And that fucking kid's massive watch thing that records sound just had me rmde.

you think that now, but wait til he uses it to fool tim curry into kissing a bellhop

Playing fucking radiohead to convey sadness, fuck this this shit already. Can't watch another minute of this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/strange-hill-high

this is genuinely good, not "good for a CBBC show" good, genuinely laugh out loud good

Rona Fairhead looks set to take over:

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/31/rona-fairhead-confirmed-chair-bbc-trust

I loved the Neil Baldwin biopic Marvellous. Toby Jones was excellent as was the real former Stoke kit-man Neil Baldwin. Quite good for the beeb was this, credit where it is due, it was quite beautiful actually.

heard v good things about this - thanks for reminding me xelab. going on the christmas watch list.

Hodge going HAM remains one of the most repellent sights in British politics but is the general feeling that Fairhead is dead in the water?

even aside from HSBC, fairhead's in charge of a body that everyone agrees won't be around after the next charter renewal so putting the boot into her takes about as much courage as pissing on a snail

This issue doesn't only refer to the BBC although I suspect they have stricter guidelines than other UK channels.

The BBC's coverage of the start of the general election campaign included footage of Cameron, Milliband, Clegg and then Nigel Farage, in that order. I was left wondering why Farage was considered quotable compared to the other parties including the Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Fein?

SNP = Jocks, PC = Taffs, SF = Paddies, Greens = hippies. Seriously though, why mention Sinn Fein when the DUP is the biggest party in Northern Ireland and, unlike Sinn Fein, sits in the House of Commons?

http://media.timeout.com/blogimages/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/map-of-uk-with-london-sized-populations-528x788.jpg

North-west M62 corridor seems best placed to submerge individual civic identities into a dystopian sprawling mega-city to somewhat rebalance UK economy and society away from London

^ achievable policies for a sensibler britain

I was left wondering why Farage was considered quotable

have you seen the man speak? he's made for TV

Usually he's just reading tabloid headlines held up for him off camera.

Why not DUP? Forgot them - they would have been next after Liberal Democrats based on the 2010 election.

every single quote in this is awful

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/27/bbc2-controller-kim-shillinglaw-top-gear-jeremy-clarkson

The reason why Mary Beard can crack a joke about Roman sex lives and – you know – penises, is because, you know what? She bloody knows her stuff about Rome.

Easy on my balls, they're fragile as eggs.

tbh when they take the licence fee off them i can probly use the extra 12 quid a month

Right-o. If someone promised to come up to me and grab me by the balls, I'd view them with extreme mistrust.

Happy egg balls day NV

o shit I forgot it was egg balls day

New BBC2 shows include Phone Shop Idol about the search for Britain’s best mobile phone salesman, Chinese School in which Chinese teachers attempt to turn around UK schools, and Britain’s Hardest Worker, about low pay.

What can you say, really?

I came across this the other night - feel that rather than "injecting emotion" into their films and "grabbing people by the balls" documentary makers would be better off aiming for this kind of considered, nuance pace, and thoughtful non-sensationalist handling of the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0iPm7hUN0U

TODAY'S AGING PUNKS DON'T GOT NO TIME FOR THOUGHTFUL NON-SENSATIONALIST HANDLING GRANDAD

TELL US THE TROOOOOOTH

and BBC4, which she also oversees

explains a lot. Particularly the incessant, tediously reverent documentaries about PUNK ROCK, MAN, PUNK CHANGED EVERYTHING ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

It's not just punk it's full of incredibly banal programmes about any kind of pop music.

The Dave Clark Five one was a classic of it's kind. Produced by Clark Enterprises.

Clark has been a hotshot music media producer for ages, hasn't he? I think he bought up the rights to all the episodes of 54321 just before the first 60s nostalgia boom in the 80s and profited hugely off its reruns.

Yeah, I remember the reruns of "Ready Steady Go" (to give it it's official title), and in place of the break between parts one and two, there would generally be a song or documentary insert of one (only one) of the leading groups of the sixties with a leader that was the drummer...

It's just as well I video-taped them all, they never came out on VHS as a set (apart from one general collection, and one specific Beatles one), and never at all on DVD.

Although Inverdale will remain as a commentator, Balding will present a new highlights show, called Wimbleon 2Day.

Would like to have been at the meeting where they came up with this controversial new name for a show.

"WIN"-bledon

kings of wimbleon

Keep calm and wimble on

Thy Wimbledon

womenbledon for the women's highlights and wimbledmen for the men's.

actually no, we've gone way beyond that as a society -

"people playing tennis"

I swear this was an actual thing in the W1A series just finished.

That series ended REALLY abruptly imo.

I think all the series of it and TwentyTwelve had oddly hanging endings, but you're right, this one just stopped mid-conversation - when Anna Rampton said she was taking him to the restaurant?

exactly! i was checking iplayer for a fifth episode for days until it dawned on me

Treasury approved use of the licence fee

lol

going to defend that as the underlying message is that social housing is good and necessary

For people who 'deserve it'.

It's 'Saints & Scroungers' all over again.

'Saints', fucking repulsive.