Dumb BBC

Staff · Issue 46, Jan/Feb 2009 · pp. 4

46/ www.uwpmag.com Editorial Dumb BBC We’ve had a couple of underwater series on BBC TV recently - “Oceans” and “Pacific Abyss” and (in my humble opinion!) they represent a new low point in underwater television production and I’ll admit I offer you this viewpoint after having not being able to watch an entire programme from either series. My wife then forbade me from watching them anymore for fear that my blood pressure would blow my head clean off. Like it or not (and I’ll probably lose our Australian circulation for this) but I blame the Steve Irwin delivery for this sad demise. The premise that interaction is entertaining and educational just doesn’t cut it with me. It’s dumb and it’s cheap sensationalism which produces trash television aimed at a very low level. The whole presenter led delivery combined with an intent to dramatise the dangers of diving is becoming increasingly comm…