The BBC showed
a revised, repeated, first episode of a half hour programme called The Deadly 60 in which Steve Backshall visited dangerous animals in Africa with a view to compiling his own list of the 60 deadliest animals.
Steve B began by telling us that, "in this series...."
Unfortunately, it seems that the BBC are not repeating the remainder of the series as it doesn't appear in their forthcoming listings.
Bloody good job !!
I never saw the original transmissions.
Bloody good job !!
I suspect this ep was used as a filler for just one week. Maybe they'll use another ep as a filler at some other time.
I sincerely hope not !!
Steve Backshall's commentary and narration was utterly inane, seemingly addressing 6 to 7 year olds as his audience. Sitting in his canoe in a river with a hippopotamus behind him and another in front, he whispered sepulchrally,
"This is very dangerous!"
We know that !!
Anyone foolhardy enough to venture within 50 feet of a hippo in its own territory deserves to be shit-scared, as indeed Steve B was when he got back to the river bank!
But having explained to us, whilst feverishly paddling the canoe to keep away from the beasts, that hippos can weigh up to 3 and a half tonnes, that they can move at up to 30 miles an hour on land, and that their teeth can reach up to one metre in length, at the end of that segment we got the "Deadly 60" splash screen with the text flashing up:-
"up to 3 and a half tonnes!" and "moves very fast!" and "Teeth as long as your arm!"
And this set the pattern for every animal he showed in the programme. All the dangerous aspects of each animal which he narrated were then repeated on the splash screens before he moved on to another dangerous specimen.
Boring, boring, boring !!!
And now the programme is over, you'll excuse me while I go and drink my school milk and then skip outside to the playground.........
BAH !!
Anyone else watch
"The Worlds' Strangest UFO Stories" ??
Interesting that all the interviewees were in America.......us British don't get abducted, or have sex with aliens then?
Apparently not.
White bearded Dave Huggins who has apparently fathered "a stack of babies from floor to ceiling" (his words, not mine!) by a bevy of beautiful alien women one of whom is named "Crescent", also has a real life, flesh and blood, human wife, who is apparently fed up with his obsession with aliens and wanted nothing to do with the making of the programme.
What I found most intriguing is :- where was she when he was "fathering" these myriad hybrid babies, or when he was led from their marital bed to the spaceship where the impregnations occurred.
But what I found really interesting is that the most likely explanation for the hundreds or thousands of reported "close encounters" with aliens is in all probability due to something called "sleep paralysis", where the conscious part of the brain is awake, but the motor part is still asleep, a condition which can lead to hallucinations.
It is well known that the brain acts to slightly paralyse the body during sleep so that we do not injure ourselves whilst moving around when sleeping, or throwing our bodies about if suffering a nightmare or during a high fever.
I experienced sleep paralysis when I was about 7 or 8 years old, "waking up" in bed but completely unable to move. They were frightening experiences.
NOT with any aliens nearby, I hasten to add !!!
I feel sorry for the people depicted in the documentary who are convinced they've met up with aliens. Don't get me wrong. I'm quite sure they believe they have.....but it would be much easier to believe if any of them, just one of them, had a single shred of physical proof of their stories.
They don't.
I'll put my money on the sleep paralysis explanation then.
SUCHET'S "POIROT".
Just watched the Poirot episode "Three Act Tragedy".
This must be one of the best Poirot episodes ever. The episode was a beautifully crafted, edited and photographed show, with a clever, understated way of "ghosting" reminders of what had previously occurred, and most of the actors gave impeccable and polished performances.
Having said that, it was spoiled by two things.
I usually record all the TV that interests me, partly because it's more convenient, (I can fast-forward the adverts) and partly because I can then go back and re-view, or check on, anything that particularly catches my attention.
So watching this episode I found the character of Sir Charles Cartwright rather boring, because Martin Shaw is always just Martin Shaw in whatever role he portrays.
What was absolutely infuriating, however was that ITV put in their commercial breaks
every 6 to 7 minutes !!
I timed them.
This is totally excessive. Commercial TV broadcasters make their money from adverts, but a break every 20 minutes is enough!! Scripts used to be written on the basis of 3 breaks in a one hour show. But greedy ITV, or the programme sponsors, or both, now take it upon themselves to cram in as many breaks as they can, usually at the most inappropriate points in the narrative, and 6 - 7 minutes is too often!
Audiences don't need to go and make a cup of tea that often!
All ITV and the other commercial broadcasters have to do is to keep the breaks at 3 per hour, but just put a few more adverts in each break. That way audiences can make the tea, and a sandwich or some toast, all at the same time. And if the sponsor doesn't like it, fine, don't have a sponsor for the programme, add another advert in each break. And with the sponsors all having their spot at the start, the end, and twice in each break, that is excessive as well !!
Or, of course, they could make an hour long show of adverts (not far off that now!) and have a break every 6 minutes for a two minute narrative!!
TV COMPANIES, TAKE NOTE !!
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