h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Those of us with digital can offer some remorce, since our digital programme list is updated daily while you plebs with radio times have to update your listings weekly, however some of the programmes on the list are still affected by events!!!

Not with Ntl digital TV it's not.But lets not get started on the NTL rant here.
I would just like for once not to be 'nannied' by anyone.Let me be a grown up please.I can always turn the TV off if I find a programme offensive and in fact I often do.

Incog.

W****E- what happened at the end of the last ep you saw? Pauline being hit by a van? In that case:

The one-armed joke shop owner got a dodgy replacement arm, which turned out to be the arm of a nun. It got all possessed, so he ripped it off. The remaining shoulder dragged him in front of the van at the end, saving Pauline.

The useless ballifs managed to collect £6 in the week, rather than their target of £500.

The van turned out tro be the Legz Akimbo van, which in the best joke of the whole ep, read:

LEGZ AKIMBO
Put yourself inside a child .

Barbara's sprog is also about to drop.

"The Milly Dowler case is heart breaking, but such things happen fairly often."

Can I just point out that this sort of thing is extremely rare. Don't have nightmares.

No Gardener's World last night.

Instead it was.....golf.

Yeah sorry andy, I meant children do go missing all the time (~1000 per year) fair enough most are not killed but if you think about it there have been 4 in the news this year milly, holly and jessica and "adam" the torso in the river. So its not that rare, we can expect to hear of at least 2 kids a year in the news and there are many others who the national press dont follow, they didnt cancel programs for those. I just think as a society we shouldn't try to wrap our selves in cotton wool and I resent the TV bosses deciding what I find too sensitive at a given time,I have the power to turn my tv over or off (FYI i didnt want to watch the waking the dead program, just nannying p***** me off).

Still as you quite rightly point out its not that common an occurence, which is why its shocking.

If this is a general BBC whinge and not just about schedules and cancellations then can I just say this...

Why do the Beeb insist on showing you spoilers of programmes that are about to start??? I hate it when you sit down to watch a programme that was perhaps left on an exciting "doof doof" (Eastenders ending) and just before it starts you see what's going to happen in a 20 second synopsis! What is the point?

For example: Casualty - at the end of the last series one of the characters had been stabbed and we didn't know whether she was going to live or die. So what do the trailers for the new series show? That's right - that character up and about and clearly alive. WHY DO THEY DO THAT????

What is even worse is when a programme has just ended (usually on another knife edge) and they show a clip of NEXT WEEK'S programme!At this point b/f and I put our fingers in our ears and sing "la la la" so it doesn't spoil it for us.

As usual, the finger of blame is being pointed in the wrong direction. The BBC is, as someone said, damned if it does, and damned if it doesn't.

The thing is that there are two groups of people who might complain.

On the one hand, if a programme with "sensitive" content is rescheduled, the people who complain tend to be relatively rational, intelligent types who, while they can see the connection, are mystified why anyone should be bothered by it. Such people complain quietly and reasonably, if at all.

On the other hand, if a programme with such content is *shown*, the people who complain tend to be the kind of cretins who burn down paediatrician's houses.

Now, if YOU were the BBC, which group would you try to avoid offending?

H.

According to my tv mag -
"Farscape - Monday 6.45pm. Part One. The return of one of those confusing minor sci-fi series. Here modern-day spaceman John Crichton has been sucked into a wormhole and ends up trapped in a future world {} of blue-faced creatures { a bit out-of-date?} and malevolent multi-limbed beings. As this fourth series begins, Crichton is now alone on an old Leviathan craft, but his peace is soon shattered by the arrival of sexy female alien Sikozu - and the plundering mercenary Grudeks hot on her tail."

Do you think the BBC heard us complaining on the Askh2g2/BBC whinge thread?
Can this really be part one?
Or a mistake in my tv mag?

Are the programme planners lurking/reading this thread?

If so *waves* thank you for showing part one again.

Sometimes the Beeb gives the impression of applying these rules about intrusive programming unevenly. We all agree that the murders of Milly, Holly and Jessica were horrible and shocking, but perhaps they also strike at a 'heartland' of what the BBC perceives as its audience.
Maybe the BBC still has a problem with setting anything contentious in this heartland. Once, you could rely on British television's examinations of the unpleasant side of society to take place in Liverpool, or Glasgow, or Belfast, etc, anywhere but the Home Counties. They try harder to be balanced these days, I'm sure. But I don't feel so sure that these intrusions on grief would have been handled so cautiously if the murdered children had come from Sunderland, say.
Maybe the same regional bias is true of the media coverage in general, though. A depressing thought.
P.

Well in the last episode of VOyager, the BBC kindly reminded the country to log on and dicuss which is the most powerful Cyborgs in the galaxy, the Borg or the Cybermen!

Farscape wasn't repeated.
It was episode 2, which was a "part one" of a two-parter, which we now have to wait a fortnight to see the second part, because they've cancelled Farscape next Monday in favour of......


.......SNOOKER!!!!!!!!!!!!

I missed it anyway as I forgot to record it 'cos well 'cos it's a damned akward time to be trying to watch tv when you are head cook and bottlewasher.Sigh!

Incog facing increasing senior moments as she gallops towards old age.

Red Dwarf film!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why was Angus Deaton fired, everybody complain to [email protected]!!!

The BEEB don't particularly mind about the sex angle but they do draw the line at breaking the law which is what Angus has been accused of in taking drugs.They have never tolerated any presenter that has been found or admitted to breaking the law.In fact it was pretty much inevitable considering that they are still having to fight to keep the licence funding going.Now if Angus had been working for ITV it might have been a differant story.Possibly,Perhaps.

Incog

Why don't the BEEB repeat The Goodies? We have to make do with endless repeats of Only Fools...and Dad's Army. Can't Auntie or UK Gold have a cult TV slot during the evening where they can show such stuff like the Goodies or other oldies? Its a shame that they have so much stuff archived but it never sees the light of day.

...execpt the few programmes that get dug up by Terry Wogan's daily rumaging through the archives!!!

Does he? When?

Have'nt you noticed everytime there's a programme presenting old clips from past television programmes, he is somehow connected. When they uncovered old episodes of Dad's army, he presented it. It's a BBC conspiracy that Terry Wogan holds copies of every BBC programme that has been produced!

(No offence Terry)