https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n06/james-butler/the-bbc-on-the-rack
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
Is anyone else watching Noughts + Crosses & is it worth having a thread?
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
is it a case of bbc doing something half decent for once shocker? I've been avoiding bbc drama like a fucking virus for so long now nearly everything they do is below my radar.
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
It’s really good!
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
is it based on a YA novel? because from the trailers i've given it a hard "no thanks"
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
ok, googled and lol i was right. i'm sure it's got an audience, just don't think that's me.
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
Yes, but it’s one that’s well known and very good. We’re not talking Twilight here.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
i'm not knocking YA fiction, i'm just far from the mood to sit down with something like this, if i'm ever in the mood.
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
i'm trying to work out why that is, and it's partly to do with wincing at most allegories and partly not feeling...something...that i'll have to think about. i want to say something about not engaging with capital r Romanticism at the moment but that's not quite it, i have my own super-sentimental vulnerabilities. i wanna say it's something about cartoonishness in drama but it's not quite that either. absolutely it's me, not them.
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
There’s a really vile Home Secretary in it!
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
yeah i've seen the odd one of those irl
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
This is the Children’s Laureate who is publishing her autobiography on #merky, and the story so far is great.
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
It’s good! Only watched the first episode but I really like it and I was surprised how much I remembered from the book.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
I'll be watching it once I'm done rewatching all of Better Call Saul which is taking up all my TV viewing time at this present momentAnyone watch Hidden? Worth it?
― kinder, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
Guess who they had on Newsnight to talk about Coronavirus.
― nashwan, Thursday, 12 March 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
Kate Andrews.
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
Oh probably her as well but no, Farage.
― nashwan, Thursday, 12 March 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
Aw I was gonna guess Brendan
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 March 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
That was my initial guess but I went with oor wee Katie instead.
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
Tonight, on BBC2, Miriam's Big Fat Adventure. On BBC4, Why Are We Getting So Fat?
Stay classy, BBC.
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
Still a bit irritated with Miriam, treasure though she is, after her programme about dying, when she filmed at a group my wife was in, yet for some reason concentrated only on the hosts running it, who are not dying yet managed to make it all about them, while the rest of the programme was entirely about the people actually dying and what they are going through, not publicising someone's business. She may not have been in charge of the editing I suppose.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
This is really good:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p082wt49/the-unshockable-dr-ronx
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
I assume the presenters of shows are only that but I feel your annoyance CP. I'm peeved she's put her name to this grossly titled show I mentioned above.
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
MM is now a patron of the company so that's why I think she had some input into it - I think the general idea is good, and that's why MM probably liked them. my wife was not too happy about the people running it, which also colours my opinion of it.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
The Govt need to start putting people on Newsnight again. Jeremy Hunt basically undermining the govt line there
― stet, Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
Newsnight is very good though. Just putting experts on air and letting them talk for as long as they need. Miles away from the Farage ep
― stet, Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
Yes Newsnight finally remembering what it’s for tonight
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
fucking hell, need to get drug testing kits on the set if true!
― calzino, Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
Five Live: well, there's no sport to cover, what would make a good replacement for a Saturday afternoon? I know! Hours of cunts wittering on about the coronavirus, that'll make a change
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 March 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
Folk on Sportsound optimistically discussing the opportunity to bring in summer football in Scotland. No-one quite accepting that summer is probably written off too.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 14 March 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
for another thread but it seems to me like the best option as far as running competitions fairly is concerned is to write off next season, suspend all competitions for at least 6 months and then finish off this season next year if feasible
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 March 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
That LRB article is p good
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 14 March 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
Finsbury Park pic.twitter.com/RSKxGQ5Pl2— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) March 14, 2020
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 14 March 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
shit chat
― ||||||||, Saturday, 14 March 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51979654
Continuing to ask the important questions like ‘what if most of the people who die from coronavirus would have died anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?’.
― ShariVari, Saturday, 21 March 2020 09:04 (four years ago) link
I was just thinking of how the BBC might be able to make itself a bit more popular if eg: it put BBC4 on for longer (at least say 12 noon on) showing nothing but classic old black & white British films.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 21 March 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link
I woke up to the immodest and tiresome voice of Bob Geldof on R4. He could bore a virus to death.
― calzino, Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:04 (four years ago) link
Xpost I think the problem with that is BBC4 shares the bandwidth with CBeebies. There’d be riots on the streets if parents couldn’t leave their kids stuck in front of Peppa Pig at this time.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:08 (four years ago) link
showing nothing but classic old black & white British films.
We've got Talking Pictures for that - and there aren't that many good old black & white British films anyway.
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:23 (four years ago) link
:o
― mark s, Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:41 (four years ago) link
I've inherited my mother's dislike of the British - or English, as she called them - films of her youth tbh.
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:47 (four years ago) link
*john laurie's ghost weeps*
― mark s, Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:48 (four years ago) link
He's on Talking Pictures every day!
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:49 (four years ago) link
now i want to watch "bees on the boat-deck" (1939 tv drama)
― mark s, Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:51 (four years ago) link
"old films" good, "old Mr Cholmondley-Warner films" bad but thanks Dan for explaining why BBC4 has those weird hours
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:53 (four years ago) link
(xp) A 'TV movie' - from 1939!
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:54 (four years ago) link
i'd happily watch old movies from almost anywhere rather than rolling quota quickies tbh
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:55 (four years ago) link
Peppa fucking Pig isn’t on CBeebies! I know the whole point of this thread is to rag on the bbc but that’s going too far.
― JimD, Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
BBC plans include more educational stuff for kids during the day, given that they are all off school. There's a lot on the web as well, always has been, but a lot of it is still in flash and hard to play (but that's being worked on)
Also more box sets and stuff available for longer.
Tony was talking about it on the radio the other day.
― koogs, Saturday, 21 March 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link
Xpost you can tell I’m not one of CBeebies core demographic.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 21 March 2020 11:53 (four years ago) link