unclebuck

The wonderful Jonathan Meades returns with a brand new series:

JONATHAN MEADES : ABROAD AGAIN - BBC2 Wednesdays at 19.00 - from May 9th (that's today)

TV programmes of the quality that Meades makes are rare these days and well worth watching (if you can tear yourselves away from Eastenders and the latest reality TV show for long enough that is)

Jonathan Meades - Abroad Again

"We make places. And places make us. We respond to what we have created. But how does this compact between mankind and its greatest artifices work?

In Jonathan Meades : Abroad Again this question is addressed in a multitude of ways: visually, comically, rhetorically, obliquely, argumentatively and whilst swimming fully clothed.

And also passionately. For these programmes are the expression of an obsessional preoccupation with places and with the properties they reflect: fantasy and necessity, escape and expectation, individual assertion and collective fear."

Nimbus

Why do you think only people with Sky + can record programs from the TV? There are other PVRs out there you know...

Eddie Slowfart

He looks like a bad Harry Enfield character. What does he do?

unclebuck

True - I use a Hauppauge PVR card to digitise my TV archive. Sky + seems the weapon of choice for the masses though.

unclebuck

I'd stick with Eastenders if I were you.

STi-Frenchie

<smug on>

but...but...but...it's Wednesday, Eastenders ain't on tonight

<smug off>

unclebuck

I thought it was on every night, just before the snooker. Shows how much I know.

NotoriousREV

Or you could try watching Channel M at 10pm, my mates band Drunken Munks are on

MJW

Sky+ for the masses ? Nah, VHS tape for sure !

unclebuck

Just watched it. Outstanding TV.

Sort of a Meades version of The Thunderbolt Kid.