Recent Woman’s Hour recruit Jane Garvey, wife of down to earth presenter Adrian Chiles bemoans the culture of Radio 4 which she describes as having “a massively middle class bent”.
It’s interesting to read some of the comments to this story in the Media Guardian:
‘what’s wrong in being middle class?.’
(er… )
‘It’s not just middle-class, it’s depressingly [...]
‘Just because you CAN have a baby, and can afford to have a baby, and want to have a baby doesn’t mean that you SHOULD have a baby…Babies are not chihuahuas. They are not dresses or a pair of shoes. They are not trendy, they are humans. Forgive me for being so judgey wudgey, but [...]
I caught this Channel 4 info-puff for the ongoing digital switch-over yesterday which features an aged Max Headroom bemoaning his lot. Ah 80’s nostalgia.“Did I ever tell you about the 80’s?”
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The 6 month old Secret Blog of a TV Controller (aged 33 and 3/4), a supposed insiders tongue in cheek blog about the culture of television and also a thinly veiled attack on the controller of BBC3 Danny Cohen has reached its conclusion by apparently self outing its anonymous author. But in a double [...]
It’s a God Awful Small Affair…
I’ve always been intrigued as to why so many British TV programmes are not so much sold to the US market as completely remade for the US market. Steptoe and Son became Sanford and Son, Alf Garnett became Archie Bunker, The Office became..er..The Office and soon Life on Mars [...]
