Working lunch for thoes who can't spell "m o n e y". (Working Lunch)

Member Name: stokx

Product:	Working Lunch
Date:	07/06/09 (69 review reads)
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Advantages: The only terrestrial choice for business news.

Disadvantages: is far too long a word to be allowed in the broadcast.

Working lunch is shown on BBC 2 between 12:00 and 12:30 on weekdays. The programme sets out to explore current affairs from a business perspective.
Unfortunately the show is positioned to appeal to a very select group of people who are fascinated by shares but don't know what they are. The result is patronising and completely useless; if you need terms like price to earnings explained to you why would you care whether BP. Is up a penny today?
The producers really need to get the courage to select a target audience and either proclaim themselves teachers and produce a curriculum to run regardless of what's in the news or make a programme for shareholders and allow experts to say words even as long and complicated as "fund" without leaping for a dictionary.
WL has a strict structure with no links. Early on they show the changes in a grid of popular shares, then they show a case study which is completely irrelevant and says nothing about anything e.g. a man with a windmill in his garden then they ask a director some generic and uninteresting questions such as "would you still like a million pound business today?"
I still watch WL when I can because there aren't any alternative business news shows on terrestrial TV but you get more serious financial commentary at the end of the news than in the whole of WL, plus Krisham credits his viewers with a rudimentary understanding of terms like "inflation" without the need for clip art.

Summary: Very condescending.