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Anyone watch this on ITV?
I missed it. Thought it was on Ch4 [they’ve moved the Radio Times round a bit] so I was going to watch it on Ch4+1. His programme about dogs was a bit lightweight so I wasn’t too bothered about seeing the horse one, but I caught the tail end of it and it looked really interesting. Is it repeated anywhere?
He’s always struck me as a very personable kind of bloke. He’s one of those actors who have a presence, it seems to me.
It’s an amazing kind of charism. Pam Grier, who looks part African, part Indian, and played the pistol-toting air hostess in the film, Jackie Brown seem to me to have tons of it, too.
She wouldn’t be a girl who’d cause me to grasp for the kitchen worktop to prevent myself from falling over, as happened a few year ago, when I turned round and found this beautiful girl from upstairs, a radiologist, talking to me (and that was before my heart op, I think). But I couldn’t take my eyes off Pam Grier throughout the film.
Another male with tremendous presence, though I only saw him in a bit part in a TV detective series I liked, is Robert Carlyle (a voice kept saying, "Get Beck! Get Beck!"
) . But I never seem to have been interested in the other things he’s been in.
I don’t like his doctor character a whole lot, but wanted to see the dog and horse programmes. I somehow missed the first all together and caught the horse one too late to want to watch it. Better to catch a repeat. They’ll surely have repeats, I would think.
Can’t abide these thesbians/failed comedians coming on the box looking all caring, amazed, sympathetic, sincere, etc. Got to remind yourself that they are actors/performers and that they are probably reading from a script with a director telling them which emotion, reaction to convey to the camera next. If we are going to have a documentary about horses let’s have someone, anyone, who deals with these magnificent beasts on a daily basis. Quite like Martin Clunes as an actor though. We’ll have Bono, bless him, expounding about the polar bear next!
"Even my best friend, my doctor, won’t tell me what I’ve got" Bob Dylan
Can’t abide these thesbians/failed comedians coming on the box looking all caring, amazed, sympathetic, sincere, etc. Got to remind yourself that they are actors/performers and that they are probably reading from a script with a director telling them which emotion, reaction to convey to the camera next. If we are going to have a documentary about horses let’s have someone, anyone, who deals with these magnificent beasts on a daily basis. Quite like Martin Clunes as an actor though. We’ll have Bono, bless him, expounding about the polar bear next!
"Even my best friend, my doctor, won’t tell me what I’ve got" Bob Dylan
Yes the TV people are almost as cheap and philistine as their advertisers. They find someone’s popular and then use the person as a peg for any and every kind of programme they can get away with – or not, as the case may be. Joanne Lumley, another nice-seeming person is the latest, while David Jason was flavour of the decade for them, it seems.
But as for the advertisers, they have to be the pits. One advertiser comes up with a popular tune or simply advertisement, and before you know it, it’s being copied by another agency, obviously with a few minor differences. No pride, no self-respect. Only what might work matters. Or rather, work again.
Try this-
Thanks for that, Mr Pilsen.
How come Martin Clunes got the gig – was Ross Kemp unavailable?
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I thought it was clear that Mr Clunes had a real love of horses and, although it was no more than a surface skim over the various sectors of horsiness (is that a word! It is now.) I very much enjoyed it.
On another TV point I’ve been sky+ing lots of episodes of a programme called ‘Champions of Racing’ on the Horse and Country channel (maybe the channel is called something else – but similar).
Quite interesting but whenever they talk about UK or Irish racing they keep making factual errors, which makes you suspect they are also making mistakes with the Asian, Australian and US stuff too.
I’m stunned by some people.
It’s a programme about horses on ‘prime time’ (well, prime time for a Sunday), do you think they’re going to get some no-mark that no-one has ever heard of to do it? At least they’ve got a racehorse owner so it’s not like they’ve got someone who can’t tell a fetlock from a headlock.
And it’s not going to be an ‘in depth’ documentary because it’s ITV & they don’t really do that sort of thing.
Why can’t people just be appreciative that the programme has been made at all?
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