Number twos! (BBC 2)

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Product:	BBC 2
Date:	27.03.02 (30 review reads)
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Advantages: Shooting Stars, Louis Theroux, Toung at the Top

Disadvantages: Lifestyle programing

They say the BBC is dumbing down, boy are they right!.Get this, a TV chef on Question Time!.The channels flagship serious news and current affairs program has told Tony Benn hes no longer required as the Chefs are on contract and bloody cheap like their stupid comment.
I though the people who didn?t have sensible answers and wanted to know what was going on were in the audience. Last year it was bad enough with Jo Brand and the Oasis guy from Creation records, but this time around I hear they have even booked Jack f*****g Dee.And all this on the back of Celebrity Big Brother success. Barrel and scrap come to mind. No wonder New Labor are getting away with murder if these guys are applying the thumb screws.

Events also reached a ludicrous low with the equally prestigious news affairs show in Panorama having a pre Oscar warm up show. Believe it or not, the super intelligent news team tried to make a connection between action and adventure movies and current world military and terrorist events.
Pulp tecno writer Tom Hanks predicted that a plane would be used as a harpoon to missile the capitol building in Washington DC.Low and behold, etc, etc.

A director was then wheeled out who made a film called The Siege which I have also reviewed brilliantly here on those nasty Muslims attacking New York with suicide bombs which resulted in Muslim internment.
At the time the Islamic religion was up in arms for real over this and said that they would never do such a thing. Low and behold etc.etc.
Ok thats mildly interesting.but havent you guys ever heard of coincidence and propaganda folks!.Every possible disaster movie has been made and it was no surprise that someone attacked New York as they did in 1993.
The only terrorist that reads Tom Clancy thrillers to get the edge in the oil wars is George W Bush, and he has the digit on the red button when he does it.

AT one point, Panorama tried to make us believe that the CIA/FBI boys and
girls actually go to Hollywood to consult the film people over possible terrorist scenarios that they are using in their movie storyboards, and could be feasible in real life. Ok after September 11 the movies did come alive, but is this worthy of a serious news show just to feed into BBC 2s all nighter at the Oscars.

BBC2 has the uncomfortable performance record of showing repeats as 63% of its programming last year. This alarming over charging on the license fee can be no better demonstrated than the ridiculous four repeated episodes of the tiresome 24 on Easter primetime Saturday night slot.
The show has been strongly trailed up to its first episode of the real time show. The real-time series that?s sweeping the States in popularity and awards is now entering its forth week. But station two of six has decided to re-run the first four shows back to back on that prime time slot.

Now correct me if im wrong, but anyone who wanted to see this rather tedious series is either board of it by now or have watched all four do far. Who the Friar Tuck is going to watch em.
Ok it?s a light football week and April is big budget month for the Beeb with the Masters and the FA up semis along with the National and Boat Race. The later still being covered so the Oxbridge types who run the corporations can all have a big day out on the license fee.
Looking at this run up to Easter week schedules,i would say its probably one of the weakest I have seen on the BBC for many a month.

Ok Shooting Stars is cool as are the occasional guest on Room 101.Johny Vegas was side splitting with Alexi Sayle still with a spark of naughtiness in his eye. Most of the hot seaters on it though seem to be C list celebs pushing a new TV show on the same channel that just so happens to be coming up.
Louis Theroux raps it u this week with a run at his guru in PR man Max Clifford.But that?s the last in only a five episode series.
I quite like ,Trouble at the Top a
bout new business ventures in documentary style,although its got a bit showbiz lately in their new dumbed down style we are all whining on about
But a lot of the good shows are broadcast on the ultra low watched BBC digital stations, which are not covered on the license fee.
With ITVs digital channel going down the pan, you would think the powers that be who are pushing yet another new technology on us we aint ready for yet in pocket, and trend.

Theres a lot of crap on BBC2 in sitcoms like Two pints of lager and a packet of crisp which is aimed at the student demographic. That lot though seems to have the most money to spend on everything but that on a Tuesday night, shuffling to the latest indie beat on a college night pound per beer in pools of lager.
The stuff that really grinds, is this constant fed of lifestyle crap on the beeb that really should be on comerical TV channels.
Food n Drink followed by Gary Rhodes in the kitchen straight after you have eaten drives everyone into the sad alternate of the decaying, Who wants to be a Millionaire. Although there was high excitement tonight as they had their first tied fastest finger in the four year run!.

Wednesday throws up The Good Life repeats that lead onto, How to be a Gardner, if you didn?t know yet.your about to. BBC1 also have a menu of aging repeats in the tedious One foot in the Grave.Thursday night is for the boys with Lifting the Bonnet and Wrong car, right Car.
Friday, which really should be the blue ribbon night for comedy on number two. But we have another green fingers night with Country House and Gardeners world. The trivial Trench follows where some office and fork lift drivers go back to the early twentieth century to relive the First World War. Lob in a few smoke bombs and fireworks and they call that TV!.
If I wanted to see a bunch of men spend a fortnight in a ditch I would watch the local roadworks.

The films we are rewarded with for our tolera
nce are mostly reruns from the seventies with the highlight being Woody Allens return to form in, Mighty Aphrodite, which is really quite funny. Its the best I can see for Easter Weekend so far as not so holly Saturday has Air bloody America!.
We know how painful it is to mention BBC sport, so I will let them of that one this time as April really kicks of a mega summer of it for our once proud national station.

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