Wot I saw on the Bat TV

[kipper]

Didn't watch anything over Christmas ... not even that old rich bag that apparently holds the moral strings of our Nation (who wants to listen to a hectoring German just before lunch anyway ?)

Bat TV - sometime after holidays

The Mighty Boosh "Live" Stage Show.
Errr ... it was really poor, limp, lazy and unfunny. What a letdown.

Vive La Republic !!

[Daz Madrigal]

Christmas TV. is truly awful. I really don't want to know who the 100 Most Squalid Embarrassments of 2007 are..I just want normal programming such as the Rockford Files and Columbo (both circa 1980's)

TV Comfort Zone!

[kipper]

Bat TV - Xmas-New Year break.

Errr...didn't see NUFFINK !
There was a TV on, fleetingly, in various houses...but it wasn't for long. So, I didn't catch The German Bag or any cut-price films nor nuffink.

Did catch Match of the Day 2 on Sunday - but it didn't have any sparkle and is hosted by a Gonk from the midlands who has all the charisma of week-old turkey.

This thread may deteriorate into "What DVD Was Pushed in DA Slot".

[Pink Betty]

happy to oblige - season 3 House - lovely Hugh Laurie

[chavette]

Wat is HOUSE pinkmelz? A Bingo drama?

[kipper]

two fat ladies .... 61
key to the door ...number 11
on its own ....36

[kipper]

saw a program! Well saw a bit.

Hugh's Chicken Shed ( or summat) which was TV chef, Hugh Fernly Wittingstone looking after chickes - free range; barn; intensive shed.

I think free range is fine for all concerned ... seems about right to me.

But Hugh was in his "intensive" shed ( which wasn't that intensive, I reckon) and found some were ill and needing killing off. He killed one ...then broke down "in tears" about killing another. It was pretty pathetic and a tad embarrassing.

Chickens in intensive sheds do not have a great time - we should pay a little more for our chooks and stop being so cruel. But 1000s of chickens, with no real competitative/survival breeding issues ...will give you a fair %age of poor chickens. I don't like to see creatures with a bad life --- but big tears over some chickens is not on. What would he do if he found 30 starving and abused horses ? Have a heart attack?

If emotions are this close to the surface - what happens in a real disaster? WHat a daft sod

[topsy]

To be fair to Hugh Fearless Eatsitall, what upset him was that to prove his point about 'factory farming', he had caused chooks to suffer.

He is heading a campaign to abolish cruelty in chook rearing and I say Good For Him

[kipper]

I take the underlying goodness in defending Chook abuse ... but Hugh was a bit of a woos, to be honest.

[topsy]

Don't think I'd like to eat anything he'd cooked; it all looks rather slap-dash and one might encounter bits of fur or feathers

Apparently his Mum has been driven to writing a proper cook-book full of edible meals ;D

[Daz Madrigal]

It wasn't that long ago when the title of chef was considered as a relatively minor imprateur for a person whose main job it was to fill the stomach. The only orders taken from the Army Chef are those given to the cooks.Nowadays they see themselves as moral arbiters and the result is the curious sight of fat Labour Health Ministers taking advice from some cockney barrow boy whilst some upper class idiot entitled Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstalle weeps at the camera and tearily informs working class mums to buy Organic chicken. What a joke.

Of course I still watch cookery programmes. I've absolutely no idea why other that to gain a very healthy appetite for the tinned curry sauce and microwaved M & S packets so readily at hand in the Madrigal Larder rooms. Hmm I must ask Kipper but I think the reason for the popularity of Food Chefs is akin to that of Snooker - it isn't as irritating as the other 99% of TV programmes.

My favourite was Keith Floyd merely because I can't imagine him nannying the nation like some overweight, sour faced fat dinner lady into eating something they don't want to!

[kipper]

I don't know why Thee Chefs are so prevalent.

Some of it is pure media scheduling --- I often catch a cook, because they're on at Dinner time. Also, cooking shows are CHEAP to make. as are paper articles.

Ironically, I think Cook -Stuff is neutral .... it's like visual chewing gum, and requires no commitment of opinion, attention etc.
The weird thing is the Cooks think we give a toss about what they think..... on anything.

I think Nigella is still the most intelligent of them all. She has realised that stirring a bowl of nice looking rubbish and pushing out the cleavage is all that's really necessary....she learnt that from her Dad.

[kipper]

BatTV - late(ish) Wednesday


"Falling Man" - a documentary on the search to find out the identity of the person in that famous picture of a 9/11 victim, who leaped to his death.

It's kind of irrelevant who he was, in the end... especially as there was endless media hype about the first time they "think" they knew ( an Hispanic family was put through media exposure hell, when they were "fingered" as the ailing, mystery, family.)

What always happens with 9/11 films ... is the reminder of the desperate and heart-crushing affect on the loved one that were left behind. Impossile to keep a dry eye ------ but the whole thing sems to have faded in American life ... or maybe just faded among the media. As the trouble with the Middle East carries on; and the weight of power shifts East...the significance of 9/11 ( as a marker) gets bigger and bigger in 21C history ..... I fink, anyway

[kipper]

Bat TV Wednesday night - late Film4

Haven't seen it yet ... just off to settle in. Off you go reader ...


Choses Secrètes ... yer typical French romp : sex, dealmaking, endless conversations, probably smoking and Kir in endless quantities. Oh ... and some more sex and some more smoking.

This is what I call a Film Industry.
What do we have ? Judi Dench, the miserable old bat.

[kipper]

Saw 45 mins of Theeee Sexy French Film : Choses Secrètes.

Realised I had seen it before:

the girls weren't sexy
they didn't smoke much
the conversations were dull.
it was total pants.

doh! - teach me to watch telly, woan it tho