Comfort TV

Miss Marple. The format is predictable, even if the plot isn’t. Truly comforting.

I think Joan Hickson was the best Miss Marple, I know Agatha Chrisite told her she'd be a good Miss Marple when she was old enough. Likewise I think Jeremy Brett was the best Sherlock Holmes, I'm not counting the Benedict Cumberbatch one as it was a whole new retelling.

Definitely! She portrayed Miss Marple as I imagine she should be. 

Margaret Rutherford was good but not at all like Miss Marple in the books.

I only wrote to them last year, so I doubt they'll listen, I've even suggested using BBC4 for popular programs when the sport is on, they weren't interested in that either.

Historians ofen refer to history sections in book shops and libraries as "Hitler Corner", as theres so much on WW2, I guess seeing as theres film footage it makes for easy programs that don't require a lot of thought, money, or having to have experts talk you through stuff, they can just string together bits of film. I get so fed up with documentaries where you only get any real information in the first section, after the first advert break they spend half the second and subsequent sections telling you what they've already told you, then there's the intro's where they tell you what they're going to tell you.

I think the BBC in particular are running scared of a loud and large minority, who want to see it as a nationalist propganda machine and part of that nationalist propaganda is sport, so that we can all sit in front of the telly joining in with jingoism and fake patriotism when "we" win and the unfairness of when we don't.

At leas next week we start to get proper programes back again, Only Connect, University Challenge, a new series on evolution with Chris Packham and my favourite, The Great British Sewing Bee.

I only wrote to them last year, so I doubt they'll listen, I've even suggested using BBC4 for popular programs when the sport is on, they weren't interested in that either.

Historians ofen refer to history sections in book shops and libraries as "Hitler Corner", as theres so much on WW2, I guess seeing as theres film footage it makes for easy programs that don't require a lot of thought, money, or having to have experts talk you through stuff, they can just string together bits of film. I get so fed up with documentaries where you only get any real information in the first section, after the first advert break they spend half the second and subsequent sections telling you what they've already told you, then there's the intro's where they tell you what they're going to tell you.

I think the BBC in particular are running scared of a loud and large minority, who want to see it as a nationalist propganda machine and part of that nationalist propaganda is sport, so that we can all sit in front of the telly joining in with jingoism and fake patriotism when "we" win and the unfairness of when we don't.

At leas next week we start to get proper programes back again, Only Connect, University Challenge, a new series on evolution with Chris Packham and my favourite, The Great British Sewing Bee.