Be Excellent To Each Other

Huh, is never noticed before.

Neither had i despite watching them all many many times

Answer to why it exists and is not in every episode :

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/ben-e ... ate-2016-6

Just realised that a new series of ISIHAC started on Monday. Yay!

We asked her about the news and Samantha says she's not too keen on withdrawal.

Yay !

The "In My Pants" round was brilliant

Started to watch the new Brian Cox thing last night but got bored and turned off after half an hour. Visually stunning, but lacking in the sciency stuff I came for. At least 'Monkey Cage' is back on the wireless.

Episode 2 link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07j438b

Damn, I read a review of this saying it was actually quite hard to follow and understand, so was looking forward to learning new stuff. From what you've said it won't be

I'll still probably end up watching it, as I do like Prof Cox.

From what I remember it was little more than:

'Shapes are important. Here's some people from across the world doing things with shapes. SCIENCE and MATHS tells us this shape is the best.'

I can't watch is stuff ever since someone pointed out that he has the same voice as Salad Fingers

I read that in a cross between Brian Cox and Philomena Cunk's voices.. Well done.

Cunk >> Cox.

As for the Cox, pieces about Catalonian human tower competitions or a Nepalese boy's first honey gathering trip or free diving grannies aren't in themselves uninteresting, but the segments were too long and focussed too much on the human interest for a show about science. If I wanted to watch them, and they were very well shot and structured, I'd watch them on a programme with 'isn't humanity endlessly fascinating' as its focus.

University Challenge and Only Connect start again tonight, from 20:00 on BBC2. How do these competitions work again?

Full Steam Ahead, BBC2.

Amiable steam-porn-cum-social-history that whilst a little simple and 'How we used to live'-esque passes the time and makes good use of heritage sites and the Beamish living history museum. No pieman, alas.

No love for the new Robot Wars...for shame.

The robots are far better, but it doesn't need to be sixty minutes long.

We watched the five minute "Meet The Robots"* thing off the iPlayer, and the house robots looks massive now. Really looking forward to watching it. it can't be all smashy fighty, as you need the build up and the pit area interviews and that.


*Robert DeNiro's finest role.

Who's the pit bird*? Have they got Phillipa back?

*So sexist. Not sorry

New BBC 3 comedy called Fleabag is very good. It's a bit like Girls, but it's British and hence lower budget so there's only one girl. (I haven't actually seen Girls, but I really wanted to make that joke.)

Also, the "explicit content warning" iPlayer will throw up is not for nothing, just FYI.

Here's a random review culled from Google in case you want to know more: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-07- ... estruction

Too much padding.

Watched Fixing Dad last night. Was great to see a very over weight diabetic, train and do a 100 mile bike ride.

Has given me the kick i need to start training again.

Would.

I named Captain Shitpants after one of the house robots.

Shunt?

No, but I do call her that.

You fucking dick

It's Dead Metal.

Sir Killalot?

Sergeant Bash.

That was MaliA's name.

BBC 4's Timeshift - the Nation's Railway: the golden age of British Rail. Good use of archive footage, especially from BR's film unit, to illustrate the history of BR. I rather like footage of '60s futurism.

The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook (BBC2).

I'm a big fan of both Sandbrook's bulky but very readable series of books on modern British history and his various TV documentaries, and how he uses popular culture to advance his arguments. I enjoyed this first episode tonight, but felt that he was a little too hasty in skipping from point to point without making a clear connection or wrapping up one part sufficiently. You know how when as a student you'd be stuck writing an essay so would just repeat your main point at the end of each paragraph without really relating it to the preceding sentences ('this thing clearly shows that avarice defined the decade')? It felt like that at times. But I'm a big fan and if you like social history you'll like it.

"Go 8 Bit" is a new TV quiz show hosted by Dara O'Brien on Dave where contestants play old games.

It starts on Monday 7th.

And will probably be rubbish.

A friend just pointed me in the direction of this, very good show well worth a watch.

BBC Four: Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings. Illuminated manuscript porn, with focus on episode one of the earliest such examples especially from the time of Aethelstan and Edgar the Peaceable. Marred by too much 'I'm really excited to be holding this book'.

Go 8-bit

http://uktvplay.uktv.co.uk/shows/dara-o ... 4467186001

Ahem.

Your post didn't count as Monday isn't the 7th.

And if you follow my link you can watch it (from the middle of last week)

'The Last Leg' goes back to its roots for the Paralympics. First one is 20:00 on C4 tonight.

Yeah, that was painfully bad.

Next episode : http://uktvplay.uktv.co.uk/shows/dara-o ... 2808717001

Regarding The Archers, I celebrated on Sunday after the verdict was announced. I just hope they don't turn Rob into a pantomime villain as we start the family court stage or as he wanders round the village. Still, at least we can now go back to worrying about the more important issues of the flower and produce show or who will be doing the Christmas extravaganza.

Or the singke wicket competition NO I AM NOT GETTING SUCKED IN AGAIN

So, the BBC decides Bake Off is too expensive.

Gosh.

Its at the peak of its popularity and I guess they can asked for more money which C4 can pay thanks to lots of advert breaks.

BBC are always under pressure for what they pay for shows and people.

Rock and a hard place. They're under immense pressure to cut costs, and by all accounts the GBBO people wanted insane money.

It'll be interesting to see what it means regarding people - can the BBC keep the presenters and just do another baking show? Will Channel 4 retain ratings?

Seems the worst of both worlds to me, though the execs who own the rights will obviously get a massive payout and not really care if it goes down the tubes in a couple of years.

Never mind, it's a load of shit anyway. They should just replace it with Robot Wars, like Top Gear.

New Robot Wars isn't that good

And, wait, isn't on BBC.