Dear Channel 4,
Oh how you love to toy with my emotions. On one hand employing lovely, moral compasses such as John Snow & creating Channel 4 news which for me (although ITN) has overtaken BBC in terms of news because watching Snow argue & have the ability to have an actual opinion is much more interesting than the bland impartialness of traditional BBC news. And then on the other you present a show like Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags which frankly oscillates wildly between love & hate for me. Love because of the clothes & because I've always had a big soft spot for Lily Allen, & hate because it's simply not fair that they have the ability to do it.
But then you have ability to create something great, & unplastic & showing all the wonderful things about fashion with a show like The Model Agency, that involves real people who are nice. I especially am fond of Aiden who remains all but silent with the occasional smile until he gets pissed off & then suddenly unleashes a tyrant of profanity. It is literally beautiful.
I guess what I'm trying to say, is how on earth can a channel produce both Supersize vs Superskinny Kids & the laugh-until-you-cry-every-time Friday Night Dinner? A complex perhaps most clearly put across in a show I'm still undecided about but always seem to see every week, 10 O'Clock Live. How how HOW can you put the genius of David Mitchell & Charlie Brooker at the same table as Jimmy Carr & fucking Lauren Laverne. I coped with her because at least she wore nice dresses (until last week) & you didn't give her that much to say, but having to fast forward through Carr every week is getting annoying. I never hated him before, I had a small fondness for late night 8 out of 10 cats, but here he is lost, juvenile & inappropriate. Why not let Krishnan Guru Murphy & the frankly lovely Faisal Islam from Channel 4 to have a go instead?
So close. Rant over.
Aha I love The Model Agency too! I usually hatehatehate tv as a whole (aside from films and the news and the occasional documentary and VERY occasional actually good drama sort of thing) but I saw an advert for this and thought hmm this looks interesting and watched it and now I'm one of those sad people that stress about missing an episode (which I did yesterday). So sad..
ReplyDeleteAs for the other things I can't really comment. Well except for the news but yeah that's er news-y.
You misses need to stop lying in bed with Mr man watching tv & get out more!
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the 10 o clock show, in essence i should love it, the hype i loved and i love the idea. it's the sort of vibe channel 4 should be doing but i can't seem to really want myself to watch it. i love DM but i hate him on there, his constant arguing about anything does my head in and butting it. i dunno. lauren is boring but she's nice to look at and isn't dumb so it's ok. not so funny mind. charlie saves it
ReplyDeleteI have an issue with 10 o'clock live. It is, however, perfectly timed after Glory Daze. I DIGRESS. I find the show far too rushed and they should really give David Mitchell more time for his debates. We barely even get a glimpse into the genius of Brooker, tut tut. They do provide a podcast version of their show though which is actually excellent. Definitely go download it.
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