Posts tagged as:

TV

The Bible: a (secret) History (of women)

February 14, 2010

Tonight’s episode of Channel 4’s The Bible: a History was different again. The Daughters of Eve was presented by historian Bettany Hughes looking at the place of women in the Bible, and trying to uncover a perspective other than the caricature of traditional misogyny. In some ways, I would say this was the best of [...]

Read the full article →

Going clubbing with the Bible (mainly anyone who disagrees)

February 7, 2010

The C4 series The Bible: A History is so loosely interlinked that “series” is almost a misnomer. I gave some attention to the first episode on creation. I suppose one could characterise that by saying Jacobsen wanted to develop an agnostic aestheticism that valued the text as myth and literature. Last week’s episode was essentially [...]

Read the full article →

Being Human: how not to do a review

January 29, 2010

Imagine a review of a series of novels in which the reviewer dismissed a trilogy on the basis of disliking the third chapter of the second book, in part because he didn’t understand the story. But that’s pretty much what the Church Times TV reviewer Gillean Craig does in today’s paper (sorry it’s behind the [...]

Read the full article →

Nutritious religion? Creation and C4’s Bible: a History

January 24, 2010

I’ve just finished watching the first of the new Channel 4 series The Bible: a History. Tonight’s episode was presented by the novelist Howard Jacobsen – a non-religious Jew – on Creation. It will be interesting to see how different each episode is; if tonight’s is any guide, they will be quite individual, for rather [...]

Read the full article →

The End of Time and the end of an era

January 2, 2010

On the whole, the two and a half episodes of Doctor Who: The End of Time, were rather good. I say two and a half, because we effectively got a “these you have loved” extra reel added on to the end, as much Russell T Davies’ goodbye as the tenth Doctor’s.
I must confess, I ended [...]

Read the full article →

How things changed in the noughties

December 31, 2009

The millennium proved not to be the end of the world, just the start of a very noughty decade.
Okay, let’s get this out of the way first. I know that technically and pedantically 2010 is the last year of the previous decade and not the first year of the next, but sometimes pedantic technicalities are [...]

Read the full article →

Doctor Who Christmas preview

November 21, 2009

From last night’s Children in Need:

var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘twitter, facebook, favorites, email, digg, friendfeed, delicious, google, reddit, live’;

Read the full article →

How atypical was the BNP Question Time?

October 25, 2009

I wasn’t going to say anything about the appearance of the fascist Nick Griffin on the BBC’s Question Time. Others have said most of it. I particularly liked the very different perspectives of David Keen and Phil Hendren. For an analysis of the post-programme poll see Anthony Wells.
However, there is one thing causing me to [...]

Read the full article →

Classic Comedy

October 24, 2009

Something for the weekend.

var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘twitter, facebook, favorites, email, digg, friendfeed, delicious, google, reddit, live’;

Read the full article →

New Prisoner trailer

October 7, 2009

A short clip.
I hope we don’t have to wait too long for this in the UK.

var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘twitter, facebook, favorites, email, digg, friendfeed, delicious, google, reddit, live’;

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries