I sometimes watch modern documentaries and wonder if they really have outsourced the production to ChatGPT. "Drone shot, rising over a dramatic, mysterious landscape at dawn" START THE DRAM… (View Post)

There's a very slow and genteel cage-fight between him, Melvyn Bragg and Ian McKellen. Throw Brian Blessed and Tom Baker in there and it'd be a wild, if rather charming, evening. Also occurs to me, n… (View Post)

I picture him above it all. A sublime figure watching over us. A little sad. (View Post)

I have a lot of older BBC (and ITV/regional) documentaries (and one-off drama's) going back to the 60s. It is really quite striking how the decline kicks in the late 80s. I wouldn't like to lay it al… (View Post)

As is apparent from moving several hundred miles away from her seat - the MP thing is a side-gig. (View Post)