So the beeb is going all out with the marking of Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species". As part of this they have several TV programmes. Including "What Darwin Didn't Know" a 90 minute documentary by the biologist Armand Leroi, discussing the various problems that Darwin foresaw in his ( Read more... )

No! Just no. You can take some liberties. Just. Not. That. One.

Congratulations, you've just broken Arthurian legend.

Sigh...

This blog seems to have turned into a TV/Media reporting site recently. Never mind.
The Beeb have a new series out called "Fossil Detectives". Presented by Hermione Cockburn it is an 8-part series made by the OU. (So that should be a good indicator of quality.) Sadly, unlike the OU shows I remember as a child there's a distinct lack of beards, and ( Read more... )

I didn't like Make Me A Christian.

Neither did Charlie Brooker. Although I did learn that Reverend George (the chap who gave the lapdancing witch a bollocking for having sex before marriage, and being interested in tarot) wrote that Sinitta song "So macho"! The mind boggles.

Hot on the heels of Richard Dawkins' The Genius of Darwin (which had a post's-worth of problems, but otherwise I generally enjoyed.This week's on Social Darwinism should be better), Channel 4 is screening Make me a Christian. Wherin about a dozen people from various backgrounds in Leeds are berated for being "sinful" and lectured by a bunch of ( Read more... )