Strange, he seems perfectly intelligent, unassuming and witty. Any reason in particular?
One man's unassuming and witty is another's superficial and glib.
Personally I think he's precisely what the subject(s) needed for a TV audience.
That's just the problem - the programme is made for the average TV audience... It's great that he's making it cool to like sciencey stuff but religion would be cool if the Archbishop of Canterbury had those cheekbones and a floppy fringe. Where's the substance? (Coursing around Brian Cox's veins, probably.)
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The real substance of the subject is probably in a Degree course at University. This is prime time TV.
It sounds like you're blaming him for his bone structure...would you be happier with some 1970's Open University lecturer geek with bad hair and B.O.?
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That's just the problem - the programme is made for the average TV audience... It's great that he's making it cool to like sciencey stuff
I'm struggling to see the problem.
The BBC didn't just get Hugh Grant to present their popular Physics programs, they went to a British particle physicist, a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
The fact they found someone with that CV capable of presenting to "an average TV Audience" is a miracle. He reminds me of Carl Sagan (the person who made this stuff cool and interesting for me on similar programs back in the day).