The BBC

Tonight, on BBC2, Miriam's Big Fat Adventure. On BBC4, Why Are We Getting So Fat?

Stay classy, BBC.

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.

This is really good:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p082wt49/the-unshockable-dr-ronx

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.

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.

The Govt need to start putting people on Newsnight again. Jeremy Hunt basically undermining the govt line there

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

Yes Newsnight finally remembering what it’s for tonight

fucking hell, need to get drug testing kits on the set if true!

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

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.

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

That LRB article is p good

Finsbury Park pic.twitter.com/RSKxGQ5Pl2

— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) March 14, 2020

shit chat

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)_/¯ ?’.

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.

I woke up to the immodest and tiresome voice of Bob Geldof on R4. He could bore a virus to death.

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.

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.

:o

I've inherited my mother's dislike of the British - or English, as she called them - films of her youth tbh.

*john laurie's ghost weeps*

He's on Talking Pictures every day!

now i want to watch "bees on the boat-deck" (1939 tv drama)

"old films" good, "old Mr Cholmondley-Warner films" bad but thanks Dan for explaining why BBC4 has those weird hours

(xp) A 'TV movie' - from 1939!

i'd happily watch old movies from almost anywhere rather than rolling quota quickies tbh

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.

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.

Xpost you can tell I’m not one of CBeebies core demographic.

the educational broadcasts begin 20 April, divvied up by age group

Yes tons of stuff already on BBC Teach, Bitesize, Tiny Happy People (ugh) and more

I listened to last night’s Coronavirus Newscast (formerly Brexitcast) and I gotta say it was very good. no Laura K providing most of the basis for that granted.

(Tracer, are you BC5?)

NBH but now WFH :)

(ah, ok. Your insider sounds knowledge made me think you were in bc5 because there's a big team over there. I'm on the team that'll be transcoding the bitesize flash video into something more modern - we've done 10s of thousands of clips already, but bitesize were a low priority, before Wednesday...)

(And I think we've met a couple of times irl, at the swimmer fap before a clientele gig when fortunate hazel was over? The Lexington perhaps?)

YES! We did! That was..... wow quite some time ago. We should fix that.... at er, some point!

Funny how all this low-priority stuff like, you know, education, basic salaries, the NHS, “suddenly” becomes important

BBC WS obit of Kenny Rogers: ".. he was known for such hits as Coward of the Century"

LOL. Lots of possible nominations for that title tbh.

I don't know what Talking Pictures is, unless you mean a BBC programme that's on on Saturday afternoons sometimes.

The thread then became too technical for me.

Channel 81 on Freeview. Mostly old, terrible British movies with the occasional cracker.

Also some British TV shows from the 60s/70s like the genuinely entertaining Human Jungle with Herbert Lom.

https://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/

TV channel dedicated to old, mainly British, films and TV. Available on Freeview, Youview, Sky, Virgin etc

xpost to Tom D

Today's highlights:

Selected highlights 21-March #TPTV
10:25 THE LARGE ROPE (1953)
11:50 CARLTON BROWN OF THE F.O. (1959)
13:40 NEUTRAL PORT (1940) Premiere
15:30 THE BLACK ROSE (1950)
17:50 ABOVE US THE WAVES (1955)
19:50 TURN THE KEY SOFTLY (1953) Premiere
21:30 THE SEEKERS (1954) Premiere pic.twitter.com/l6DezV1syr

— Talking Pictures TV (@TalkingPicsTV) March 20, 2020

bees on the boat-deck conspicuous by its absence

I need to investigate some of these channels. Maybe more films are on that I realise.

(I don't have anything more advanced that Freeview or Freesat.)

... Channel 81, Freeview.

If you're into spaghetti westerns and are an early riser I noticed recently that Channel 40 seems to show (usually pretty bad) spag westerns every morning.

It's channel 81 on Freeview assuming your tuning is up to date. It's one of the half dozen channels I always check if I'm looking for something that might be watchable. The quality of the movies is wildly variable but there's a lot on there that you don't see anywhere else.