6th September 2006, 09:40 PM
Sorry for a bit late on this but have just returned from holiday and am getting round to checking the threads [:I]I agree TT is getting worse. Picking up on threads in the other TT discussion on the Royal dig, it seems to me there was much more archaeological totty that usual. I also found the so called updates cringe worthy. In one epsiode they had a 'live' update where it was still sunny. I was in Cornwall and it was dark!! allowing for variations in global position this seemed a bit extreme
I am sure if I watched earlier TT then I would find them equally cringe worthy but if rose tinted memory is anything to by they were more 'factual/believable' back then. Considering the TV listings in one paper described it as an archaeological challenge show I begin to wonder what TT is marketed as! On Britarch people questioned who Tess Daly was- apparently an Oxford educated history graduate according to her own homepage but she pleaded ignorance over history more than once. I appreciate that they have to get discussion but this is surely blatabt dumbing down!!
Here there and everywhere, but still no trowel
I am sure if I watched earlier TT then I would find them equally cringe worthy but if rose tinted memory is anything to by they were more 'factual/believable' back then. Considering the TV listings in one paper described it as an archaeological challenge show I begin to wonder what TT is marketed as! On Britarch people questioned who Tess Daly was- apparently an Oxford educated history graduate according to her own homepage but she pleaded ignorance over history more than once. I appreciate that they have to get discussion but this is surely blatabt dumbing down!!Here there and everywhere, but still no trowel