'Bushwhacked'
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
I know! I kept thinking, why is Ted yelling at me and pretending to be Alton Brown?
Yes. This. Exactly.
I tried to watch that show. Once. It was embarrassing beyond belief.
I think I gave it a second shot to see if Ted had stopped channelling Robin Leach, but then I gave up.
The Story of India
as I am cable-less, this was what I watched last night. It is hosted by my secret pbs boyfriend, Michael Wood. I was very amused that he got the colored powder treatment that the Amazing Racers had to endure.
then I watched On the Road Again: Travels in Spain, in spite of Gwyneth Paltrow.
I've got the companion book to his series on the Dark Ages from a few decades back. I really like him--he's my second favorite British PBS documentarian after James Burke.
Mine, too, Kathy. They both bring such enthusiasm to the work, but Wood is much cuter.
I'm in the middle of rewatching my tape of "How the Universe Changed" (taped when the Science Channel had a vintage-science-series marathon a few years ago), so I've got James Burke on the brain. In addition to being really informative, he's a hoot!
the internet ate my post!
I love "The day or How the Universe changed" whatever it was called.
Eeep! You're right, it is "The Day the Universe Changed". You'd think I'd know that!
I've also got several eps of the original "Connections" on tape, which are just as much fun to watch.
Burke can talk to me anytime about anything and I will listen!
Kathy, have you ever seen Terry Jones' Medieval Lives?
Most definitely! I also liked his doc on the Crusades--I learned a lot about the various sides. Also, I loved his "recruiting film" for the Crusaders.
Back in the '80s (I believe), Jones wrote a book called "Chaucer's Knight" that went into why the Knight was not so much a "a worthy man / that fro the time he first began / to riden out he loved chivalrye / truthe and honor, fredom and courtesie" (yes, I do have that memorized--I'm such a geek!) as he was a bloody mercenary who wrecked havoc across the continent. Definitely worth a read if you can find it.
ETA: I just looked it up on Amazon. Not only is it out of print, but the used paperback starts at $50(!) and the hardcover at $60(!!).
Ack! I'll look in the library for it.