Melissa_sx
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Forgot one that always makes me HOWL!
2 Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps!!! :slayer:
The Life of Mammals
The Blue Planet
Life in the Undergrowth
Planet Earth
The Life of Birds
State of the Planet
i agree the amount and level of detail is made suitable for a wide audience, and that does degrade the academic value of the series, but it does suit the intended audience so its not an issue.proper learning of value has to come from other sources that taken effort.
for me its got to be scrubs... its my feel good tv, always makes my sides hurt and face ache with laughter
then your looking at all the csi series and spin offs, futurama, top gear, due south and monk (at the last ...)
im sure theres more but i cant think too straight at the moment
OT Andy but I was at Grain last week, "we" had a tanker in Wed-Thurs which was good to see. Rochester (where we stayed) is pretty grim and my hotel even worse!
yes but thats the great thing, to me thats a prompt to go and dig deeper to find the answer. but without that prompt i would never think to find out about the actual colour or conductivity of water (i think i'll read about the colour issue tonight actually ). if a tv programme spoon fed you the whole answer it would be boring. all you want is something to spark the question, the answer is something you should find out for yourself.I find TV usually aims for the middle part of those two examples
i can tell you're as skeptical as me so i think there is very little chance of that happening. if its on tv its only someone's opinion or idea, its not something you should take as factual at any level until you have done a bit of research. you wouldnt quote a tv series would youI find TV usually aims for the middle part of those two examples, both of which would make me look stupid. Those are fields I know a bit about so can identify it as rubbish, yet if I start watching something about a topic I know little about, there's probably a massive number of examples like the two above that means "a little bit of education is a dangerous thing"...
i'm not saying a TV programme needs value and meaning to be worth watching. all it needs is to be entertaining. but for me, for a series to be entertaining, it needs to have value or meaning. it must be based around something factual, or at least someone's opinion of something in the real world. fiction rarely entertains me, i've really tried hard to watch it but it just doesnt do anything, i find no value or meaning so i lose interest. occasionally i'm forced to watch eastenders or coronation street by my girlfriend, you can guarantee that 15 mins later i'm shouting at the tv, or my girlfriend, or i'm staring at the wall next to the tv thinking about other (violent) things just to keep the peace. (i'd like to note at this point that she wont watch uktv history for 5 minutes nevermind 15)But it's then pure snobbery to say that a TV programme needs value and meaning to be worth watching.