Caution: Elderly person gripeing and ranting.

[panik]

I'm watching Museum of Life on BBC2. Fascinating subject and I was actually hoping for a proper documentary but alas, it's just the usual bollocks with the usual over-excited Blue Peter-type presenters giggling and squeeing all over the place and everything dumbed down and over-produced and explained and...

::pauses to sigh::

Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm just getting terribly old but I ache for an adult documentary that respects my intelligence, where a proper presenter like Ken Clark or Michael Wood or James Burke, someone who has a personality rather than is a 'Personality', can take us on a journey without needing to involve us quite so much in the whole wretched process, presenters who don't act like clowns making balloon animals at a children's party.

And here's David Attenborough! But don't worry, he's only being interviewed. He clearly can't be trusted to present the damn thing; too old, probably, too crusty and tweedy and prone to use Big Words that might frighten some viewers.

::sigh:: I fear I may have lived too long.

Comments

[cross-stitchery.livejournal.com]

there are some good docos out there. i've been watching quite a few lately, mostly BBC. i find the US ones tend to be 1. very dumbed down and 2. painfully repetitive as they go over the same information after every ad break (i guess Americans have very short attention spans?)

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

There's a horribly annoying tendency to jive up docs here by having noisy children young presenters getting all hands-on and over-excited and trying to show how, wow, you know, like, palaeontology is like really fun, guys, you know? And not, like, boring at all.

Yes. I knew that. And I would like David Attenborough to do it properly now, please.

The Beeb are still making great documentaries, Life and Last Chance to See spring immediately to mind, but the Museum of Life ones are gaining ground. I was hoping I'd be safe on BBC2 but it wasn't to be. :o)