>This is a great book by Simon Jefferies, analysing the TV shows he grew up with. He manages to capture perfectly the emotional response of a child to televsion (in his case his terrible anxiety he experienced when imagining the Gardener discovering the Flowerpot Men and stamping on them) - without once resorting to shallow Theakstonisms.
Sorry, hate to be pedantic but it's Stuart Jeffries (the one person at the Guardian who appears to know anything about television at all). I agree with everything else you say here though, Mr. G. (Actually, SJ did turn up on one or two I Love The 70s, but it was a case of blink and you'd have missed him.)
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Thanks Justin. At least you pointed out my error with a degree of tact!
Fxxx me! The fxxxing book is only 4 feet away from me and I got the fxxxing author's name wrong!
I apologise to Stuart Jefferies and his family for any embarrassment.
*punches self in thigh quite hard*
Is this the right time to say I'm available for work as a researcher?
I read a couple of pages of this in a bookstore a while back, and it seemed a bit too full of unneccessary* sixth-form analysis to me. Have is misjudged it?
(* delete consonants as approppriatte)
unnecessary. One "c"ollar, two "s"ocks.
>unnecessary. One "c"ollar, two "s"ocks.
So what are the 'n's then? Nostrils?
Um. I'm not sure about the ns, so i didn't offer any information on them. If you're just concantenating the prefix "un-" and "necessary", then it should be two n's. Sod's law dictates that the one time we use this rule, it won't obey.
Grrr. What's the point in having rules in English if you have to break them all the time?
Sorry, I'm having a Monday morning.
more proof that English is the most difficult language to learn.
try a dictionary, they'r ealways useful - especially ifyou have some lopsided furniture or papers that need to be weighed down.
Personally. Me. Not anyone else. It was a pretty lazy book I thought. A lot of the programmes that he refers to he clearly has some vague memories of, but has researched them for the book by taping one random edition off UK Gold and referring to it endlessly without mentioning the rest of the series.
And when he did have something to say boy! does he go on about it. Brideshead Revisited was clearly something that he felt quite passionate about but it feels like we're reading his university notes. Not that I didn't enjoy the book... I was just constantly anticipating the next chapter as there was a chance that it might just get more interesting again.
I wonder if the book got picked up in the US, where there's a big cult of Are You Being Surfed?
What on earth would they make of all the other progs referred to? I tried to explain the Magic Roundabout to two Danish people once and they were sick.
The Magic Roundabout's French.
Apart from Eric Thompson.
No wonder the Danes want nothing to do with Europe then.
Sky High is a good book , about BSkyB and well , how BSB and Sky became BSkyB etc....very good
Just try and get hold of a copy thou!!
I did :)