Caporegime
They should get Brian May to front the program.
BBC are about to axe the tv show "The Sky ayt Night
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I find Brian Cox absolutely fine myself
Just don't understand how the BBC can fund "That Puppet Game Show" and not find a fraction of that budget for S@N which is absolutely the type of programming we pay it to produce!
the thing is, they're funded from totally different parts of the BBC budget.
One is light entertainment (probably under a sub budget for quiz shows), and the other from the factual/documentary/science budgets.
Having said that I've heard nothing other than a facebook page, and a fairly standard bit of information - the fact a program is "under review" or will be reviewed at the end of the year doesn't mean anything.
All programmes are reviewed at regular intervals, if just because things like contracts to make them are generally awarded for X months or episodes in advance, so towards the end of that contract it's time to review the options and negotiate the terms of the new one with the presenters/production company.
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I see him more as a bloke who genuinely loves his field, and gets a bit carried away sometimes.
He has introduced space and science to a lot of new people. I imagine the Beeb specced the shows to target children, and adults who know little about science. I'm a sciencey person and I still found them very interesting.
Whatever your personal opinion (which you are entitled to), you can't really argue with the quality of the programmes themselves. Some of the best telly of recent years.
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I used to feel the same way but I think he's just the monkey and the BBC organ grinders want a certain type of programme. His book "The Quantum Universe" is more adult than his typical TV output. The BBC(and media in general) want young, good-looking, ex-pop band members to appear on screen rather than people like Patrick Moore - even newsreaders can make a career out of being good looking. TV in general is aimed at the intellectual low hanging fruit of the British public, maybe one day we'll see something like iTunesU on a dedicated terrestrial TV channel but I won't hold my breath(on the other hand maybe specialist IPTV services will kill second rate TV, I can only hope).
He doesn't have the charisma of Patrick but that's fine, I like low budget programmes presented by genuine enthusiasts - repels media airheads looking for their next presenting gig.
Too much style over substance - IIRC they did fly him out to Victoria Falls just so that he could point at the water spray and highlight a rainbow, I think Patrick Moore would have used a hosepipe in the back garden at Selsey and done just as well.
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Too much style over substance - IIRC they did fly him out to Victoria Falls just so that he could point at the water spray and highlight a rainbow, I think Patrick Moore would have used a hosepipe in the back garden at Selsey and done just as well.
Good point. He did go just about everywhere on Earth during those series...
Caporegime
Random fact: Brian Cox was the keyboard player in D:Ream.
GREAT NEWS: BBC Confirm Sky at Night will continue!
Soldato
Certainly good news, though why it had to be shunted off to bbc4 I don't know.. *shrugs* oh well, at least they didn't axe.
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It's not been shunted off though, it'll still be shown on BBC2 as well from what I've read.
I suspect BBC4 being the more educational channel suits it slightly better, and is less likely to have scheduling conflicts for the primary airing.
I also strongly suspect that in about a year there will be the same rumour again
