Gove turned up at the last minute complete with Boris's Dad, knowing he would not get on. If it had been negotiated beforehand it might have been different. Boris would have floundered last night. Let's see if Cummings lets him face Andrew Neil.
Channel 4 would be better off being edited by Ben Dover. I think he's editing Channel 5 at the moment though.
It appears that Andrew Neil's interviews with Messrs Sturgeon & Corbyn have frightened the other party leaders so much that the planned interviews are not going ahead. Shame. The aforementioned clashes were terrific viewing.
A BBC mini-series I was very much looking forward to was War of the Worlds. It seemed to begin promisingly enough, though I thought the divorce sub-plot was a bit odd. Not from the book certainly. Unfortunately it was only a taste of what was to come. Sadly and annoyingly, the whole thing did not work for me in the end. Rather than faithfully telling the story as Wells wrote it, the 'right on' producers turned the screenplay into clumsy ridicule of the British Empire, and what they considered to be wrong Victorian (or Edwardian) values. Special effects were OK, but even the Martians and their machines were unnecessarily mucked about with too often. That's three visual attempts to tell this story in the last 70 odd years, none of them satisfactory. In the 1950's the Americans 'Americanized' it, producing some impressive effects for the time, but not connecting with the original story at all. The Tom Cruise movie had even less to do with Wells' novel, and was a frankly awful film. I was hoping after 15 minutes that his infuriating on-screen daughter would be killed. Now the BBC have missed a great chance to do the book justice, because they are so desperate to be woke and politically correct, that the past and the different values of past times are fit only to be judged and condemned. It has seriously hurt it's Doctor Who franchise in my opinion, for the same reasons. Apparently though, viewing figures for the last series were the highest since it was re-launched in 2005. So what do I know.
I quite liked the Tom Cruise film. Excellent special effects. Agreed about the annoying daughter, though. Nothing beats the original film.
Pension programme about to start on channel 5. I wouldnt mind being a pound note behind @Royston Vasey
Probably Attenborough's last series has now finished. I can't think of anyone who possesses more wisdom than this man. It's been a privilege to watch his programs.
Sir David gets hijacked by nobody. It's a shame that the Right thumbs its nose at the laws of physics.
Shame on BBC and ITV for swallowing and reporting as fact the lie from Conservative Central Office that Matt Hancock was punched by a Labour activist. Dead cat bounce.
There is a coordinated programme of left wing activists harassing Conservative politicians though. That has not been denied. Small bunches of people being verbally abusive and jostling them wherever they go - not spontaneously (as they want voters to believe) but acting under orders. Not very savoury, but typical of the way Momentum Labour operates. Anybody who spoke out about ani-Semitism got much the same treatment.
Momentum hate "Blairite Scum" above all else. I've just had my third membership renewal form from Labour, this time with a letter from Jennie Formby. I see Tony Robinson has left, I also have friends who have left recently. Momentum will have the party all to themselves soon.
Voted Ben Stokes in SPOTY, he should win. Usually we get bile n vitriol abahrt Gary Lineker And the BBC?