I only caught a moderate amount of telly this weekend. I caught up with the new team captains in They Think It's All Over, but they'll take time to settle down.
More interesting was Tony Robinson's Romans on Saturday. I'm not quite sure that giving Tony Robinson such presence in the title is a great thing. He's an intelligent man who I much admire and who's done good work throughout his career, but he's not a Roman historian to the best of my knowledge. Even Simon Schama's History of Britain did not integrate his name into the title of the programme, but I suppose it's ratings that count for more. In actual fact the programme was excellent, with very little unnecessary reconstruction or pointless computer graphics. Instead the present day countryside was presented and we were told that years ago this was a battlefield or whatever. I look forward to the rest of the series.
Otherwise, I still can't really like Lisa Rogers in Scrapheap Challenge, as I find her too cynical a TV presenter. And I would have loved to have seen more of Blunkett on Breakfast with Frost.
Posted by adambowie at September 22, 2003 12:27 PM