Why is the BBC obsessed with loud ambience music in documentaries? Celebrity race across the world had such loud background music I couldn't make out what people were saying. It didn't even stop when they were playing Portuguese singer in a club. I won't be watching it again.
I'm currently watching Happy Valley, after reading and hearing all the hype. I must say it is proving to be an excellent watch. Sarah Lancashire is simply sublime in her role as the hardened copper. 9/10 so far.
I binge watched it over a fortnight this month. Utterly sublime and Sarah Lancashire was fantastic (although Charlie Murphy made it for me ). Very gritty in places, especially in the first series when the young WPC died, but gripping - in a book you'd definately call it a page turner, and want more. I don't watch a lot of TV series as it involves too much time I don't have. Game of Thrones with 8 seasons and lots of hour long episodes was unusual for me, but Happy Valley was concise, gripping and just about managed a happy (ish) ending in each season. although given the content, you couldn't call it a feel good ending.
Be nice if with all the technology we have, we had volume controls for dialogue and background music. Annoying football commentators gone at the click of a switch.
It's ghastly. It's as though they feel the viewers can't think for themselves and need mood music to tell them how they should feel. A documentary ain't a documentary any more.
Right back at the beginning of Sky's football coverage in the early 1990's I thought they should have offered a "commentary mute" option, where all the crowd noise etc. from the match could still be listened to, but the voice of the commentator be removed. The tech must exist to allow that nowadays, but it has never been offered to subscribers. Instead we got fake crowd noise during lockdown football matches The BBC could offer a similar option; "mood music mute". So a watcher could still hear the narrator if they wish, but switch off the background score. Strange isn't it, that all the listening these broadcasters are supposed to do - all the focus groups, that they are not interested in offering their paying customers these options. Instead we just get the yearly round of celebrity has-beens dancing and eating kangaroo bum holes. Hey! here's a new format - I'm a celebrity sex offender, get me on Yootube
A "really big" US star is to headline Glasto next year https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67207702 Taylor Swift maybe?
Nah! Modern rubbish for kids. My wife like's her (which is a negative in itself) but I like Nirvana, so Taylor grates on my ears. Her first single (Shake it off) was okay mind!
Commercial eye candy. A bit like a living version of that Sophie Ellis Bextor video when she was a shiny shop window dummy. Having her headline Glastonbury would be the ultimate irony. I wonder if I'm right...
