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Also a good proxy for recent BBC Horizon programmes, I'm afraid.

• Robin_Message 16y ago
  The thing I love on TV programmes is when the show you a clip of what they are going to show you, show you it and then go back and recap it for you in case you didn't bother to watch the first half of the programme. I think I would cry if I had written a decent documentary and then seen what the producers do with it. Cookery programmes are terrible for this — you never see people actually doing the bloody cooking.
• arethuza 16y ago
  I used to watch Horizon a lot when I was a kid in the '70s and '80s (I particularly remember the "Painting by Numbers" program where they covered the state of the art in computer graphics). However, when I have watched it more recently it seems terrible - very "pop science" with lots of annoying repetition. What I don't know is whether the old Horizons were actually any better or whether it is me getting a lot older, or a combination of both!
  • almost 16y ago
    Seem here, except I was a kid watching it in the 90s.
    • arethuza 16y ago
      Thinking about this a bit more I suspect it is largely the quality of the programs. I watched Sagan's Cosmos when it first came out and have watched it recently and I thought it stood up pretty well.