It's on BBCAmerica, Sail. Best show EVER.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
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]
Scrappy - Jan 14, 2009 8:36:18 am PST #7688 of 23273
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Kathy A - Jan 14, 2009 8:45:39 am PST #7689 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm not that much into cars, but I love watching it. Even the test driving of the supercars is interesting, just because the presenters get so geeked out about them (or disappointed, as the case may be).
The show not only does a good job of reviewing cars and entertaining the viewers with interesting and funny challenges, but the cinematography is amazing. They really make the cars look incredible in the most beautiful locations possible.
SailAweigh - Jan 14, 2009 8:47:19 am PST #7690 of 23273
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
That's what I thought, I don't get BBCA. I'll have to check out the YouTube website. If I remember. I always forget, until someone starts talking about it.
Kathy A - Jan 14, 2009 8:58:57 am PST #7691 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Here's the video page of their website. If you click over to the "challenges" tab, you'll see lots of great stuff, including Space Robin, where they try and make a space shuttle/car that drive after it lands, Super Mini-Soccer, where they play soccer with subcompact Toyotas, and on page 4, one of my favorites, where the hosts' moms test out various Mom-type cars.
megan walker - Jan 14, 2009 9:31:30 am PST #7692 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm guessing I shouldn't be irritated I missed Chopped then?
Unless you want to see Ted Allen channeling The Chairman rather than Alton Brown, I'd say no. It's not that the show is bad, just completely uninteresting.
erikaj - Jan 14, 2009 9:40:14 am PST #7693 of 23273
Always Anti-fascist!
I heart Ted Allen, but maybe not that much.
sumi - Jan 14, 2009 9:43:39 am PST #7694 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
Oh, I read over at TWOP that Hammond is doing some children's science shows over the TG hiatus and, apparently, Oliver is included.
Scrappy - Jan 14, 2009 9:50:38 am PST #7695 of 23273
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Jamie Oliver? That's a lot of smart, obssessive, British cuteness in one place.
Kathy A - Jan 14, 2009 9:51:13 am PST #7696 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
"OLIVER!!"
That was probably the funniest bit from the Botswana special. That and "We got some water in our cars, too, Hammond--you just have to have the guide shoot a hole in the footwell and it'll drain great." "Yeah, thanks. I think I'll need a bit more than a gun."
I love how attached Hammond got to his Oliver, and how quickly, too. I showed the ep to my mom, and she immediately recognized the Opel Kadett and said she hadn't seen one of those since the '60s.
Kathy A - Jan 14, 2009 9:53:05 am PST #7697 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Scrappy, Hammond's Oliver is what he named his Opel Kadett in the Botswana special. It's the only time any of them have named a car, and he got loads of shit from the other two for being so cliched.
"It's such a happy little car! I think I shall call him 'Oliver'. Oh, God, no--now I've gone and named it!"