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New Message Posted!2012-10-12 19:29
Brilliant Andy... thank you so much for that, it was really funny!
Andy B
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New Message Posted!2012-10-12 13:56
For you Angie - I thought it would be out there
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New Message Posted!2012-10-12 11:48
On 2012-10-02 19:12, Andy B wrote:
A good prehistoric start to this programme but what is it with Huw Edwards - his delivery is so terrible and wooden. It's like the excruciating commentary on the Olympic Opening Ceremony. What is it with giving History programmes to news types - Andrew Marr is just as irritiating in his own way.
Makes me appreciate Neil Oliver - but not in that way - I laughed when the producers kept repeating the line about the prehistoric man with 'flowing locks giving him a great presence' or whatever it was.
Oh no Huw's onto cliched 'history programme' hand gestures (a la David Mitchell) now and there's (so hackneyed) hammering and whooshing music as they introduce Pentre Ifan.
'people who understand the land and the spinning earth they live on'
Oh no 'people with complex needs' - what the f***
Whoever wrote this script wants shooting.
If I hear another whooshing or hammering noise on a scene cut I'm going to scream - perhaps I should turn it into a drinking game...
Hi Andy
Yes, I thought your comments were hilarious, and re-reading them [his 'hand gestures' bit] just reminds me of Dan Cruickshank's presentation methods....
While I love his enthusiasm, it seems that - as he's getting older - his arms have gathered speed.. His gestures are distracting to watch, and I'm sitting here, wondering when he's going to get lift-off! I don't think I've seen him since the Avebury Manor prog. Aubrey Manning used to be quite a good presenter with his landscape progs that included megalithic sites.
Is David Mitchell the guy on 'Would I Lie to You'? I love that prog.
I also thought that was funny-ironic, about the prehistoric man whose flowing locks gave him 'presence'!! ha!ha!! You don't fancy Neil, then, Andy...?
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New Message Posted!2012-10-12 09:29
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On 2012-10-02 19:28, Andy B wrote:
Someone dressed up as Merlin and re-enacters running in slow motion - I should have predicted that one - another box tick.
Heheh, I didn't see the program but your commentary had me chuckling
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New Message Posted!2012-10-11 11:47
It can be found on Virgin on-demand, and of course on iplayer:
New Message Posted!2012-10-02 23:17
I would guess that was on BBC Wales only - don't think it's been networked to the rest of us plebs before now.
Presenter - I would say Joanna Neary from Ideal but she's not Welsh (sorry!)
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New Message Posted!2012-10-02 22:23
It's a re-run from earlier this year.
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New Message Posted!2012-10-02 22:06
It's lucky that Huw didn't describe any of the sites as being 'Wales' Stonehenge', eh, Andy?
Can just see your face if he had!!
Neil might not have got his Scot's tongue around the Welsh pronunciations, otherwise he'd have been so much better. However, I did like the sites they featured.
Who do you think would have been most ideal for this job..?
(apart from Sem or Cerrig...)
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New Message Posted!2012-10-02 19:28
'Celtic world of the continent'
'deep into history'
'experts believe'
'opens our eyes'
It's got to be 2:1 on we get Miranda Aldhouse Green wheeled on before the end of the programme
Oh no, graduated orange filters on the camera - Aaaaagh
'this is their home' (have they picked these phrases out of a programme about wildebeast)
On to the Romans, the cliches are marching on - I give up.
Good archaeology now at Caerleon but Philip Glass music ticks off yet another cliche box.
[ This message was edited by: Andy B on 2012-10-02 19:34 ]
Someone dressed up as Merlin and re-enacters running in slow motion - I should have predicted that one - another box tick.
[ This message was edited by: Andy B on 2012-10-02 19:46 ]
Andy B
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New Message Posted!2012-10-02 19:12
A good prehistoric start to this programme but what is it with Huw Edwards - his delivery is so terrible and wooden. It's like the excruciating commentary on the Olympic Opening Ceremony. What is it with giving History programmes to news types - Andrew Marr is just as irritiating in his own way.
Makes me appreciate Neil Oliver - but not in that way - I laughed when the producers kept repeating the line about the prehistoric man with 'flowing locks giving him a great presence' or whatever it was.
Oh no Huw's onto cliched 'history programme' hand gestures (a la David Mitchell) now and there's (so hackneyed) hammering and whooshing music as they introduce Pentre Ifan.
'people who understand the land and the spinning earth they live on'
Oh no 'people with complex needs' - what the f***
Whoever wrote this script wants shooting.
If I hear another whooshing or hammering noise on a scene cut I'm going to scream - perhaps I should turn it into a drinking game...
[ This message was edited by: Andy B on 2012-10-02 19:32 ]
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