Horizon. Why not spend an hour or so explaining some scientific concept* when you could have done it in about five minutes. Or less.
*It's fracking tonight.
That sort of thing makes my blood boil too. MrsLurker tells me go to and listen to the wireless when I start going on about the sundry and apparently endless idiocies of documentary makers these days.
Other things that tick me off, join in if you know the words ...
- Play acting with twits in costume in historical documentaries.
- "Establishing/journey shots" in documentaries*.
- The narrator repeating everything that's gone before in the programme. Channel 4 I am looking at
you.
So, documentary makers. Repeat after me, "Just the facts, ma'am. Just the facts."
*Horizon played a blinder very early on with this sort of nonsense. Some 15 or 20 years ago in a prog. about H. Pylori and the Aussie who showed it was largely responsible for gastric ulcers. They showed a 747 landing with the caption "Sydney" (or wherever) and then cut to a talking head shot of the bloke in an office. Who gives a fuck whether he was in an office in Sydney or Melbourne or Cairns or even sodding Cricklewood? We want to hear what he's got to say not watch pictures of aeroplanes. Yes. It does still rankle. Not obvious is it?
