It's a funny old country isn't it? Just a couple of weeks back the UK's media seemed to ignore the financial crisis all around us to instead concentrate on Sachsgate and the fallout of inappropriate phone calls that were made by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross. I'm not going to even start to discuss the ins and outs of this, but I just found it amazing that even Gordon Brown got involved.Now I see the media and some of our politicians are at it again. I walked past a TV at work the other day to see that the BBC had their Breaking News symbol up on screen. I ... read more
Travelling Comedians
Nearly twenty years before Sarah Palin was the name on everyone's lips there was another Palin attracting quite a bit of attention. In 1989 Michael Palin took off in the footsteps of Jules Verne and travelled Around The World In 80 Days with a BBC camera crew. There was born my love of travel programmes and started a desire to travel.I've been luck enough to visit some of the places on Michael's trip in the last twenty years, but there are still many more places on my list that I'd love to visit. Various other travel programmes have ... read more
Place of Execution
I don't watch that much on television, but do tend to find myself drawn to either comedy, factual documentaries or murder mystery type programmes. One programme that falls into the latter category and that I'd been looking forwards to after seeing the trailers was the ITV dramatisation of Val McDermid's A Place of Execution that started on Monday night.Although I haven't read any recently I read most of McDermid's books a few years ago (mainly via my local library at the time which was excellent at ordering things in for me) and this was one book that ... read more
Hairy Bakers
After seeing it advertised quite a few times I was thrilled this evening to actually catch an episode of the Hairy Bakers on BBC 2.I've been a fan of the duo Dave and Si that make up the Hairy Bikers for a while now and the idea of them doing a whole series on baking seemed like a fantastic idea. There are so many cookery programmes on TV, yet I don't recall a single one that is devoted to baking alone.In the episode I caught tonight (number 2 I believe) the aim was for them to prepare tea at the Henley Regatta and so first they went on a trip to try out various different ... read more