Following on from the HDTV thread, and the poor quality programming around at the moment.
What do you all consider worth the effort?
My vote goes to some of the very brave comedy that the beeb is showing. Nighty Night really did push the boat out.
Tony
Posted on: 12 June 2004 by JonR
I particularly enjoyed 'QI' on BBC2 last night - a highly original show IMO and very funny.
JonR
Posted on: 12 June 2004 by matthewr
Last night's Big Brother was the TV Event of the Year so far. PornShell and Special Needs went from despair to confusion to topless bed bouncing elation in 10 deliciously perfect minutes.
Elsewhere BBC4 throws up 2 or 3 highly watchable, high quality programmes (a very good Gil-Scott Heron show last night for example) every week. The big US imports (Sopranos and West Wing for me as Six Feet under seems to have passed me by) remain essential plus the US middlewieghts like CSI, law & Order, the Shield, etc consistently show ITV and the BBC how to do popular drama series that aren't, well aren't like Holby City and Heartbeat.
Comedy-wise "Nighty Night" ("Is there a cash alternative?") was awesome but "Black Books" is the best current comedy. "Little Britain" needs to rescue itself in its second series as the potential of it's brilliant characters and having the wonderful David Walliams isn't quite enough to overcome repetitive and sub-standard scripts.
Channel 4 News, BBC4 World News and Newsnight provides the very highest quality daily news coverage anywhere in the world.
And the BBC can still pull it off when it puts it;s mind to it as teh recent charming one-off fly-on-the-wall documentary "Posh Plumbers" showed.
Matthew
