The Mekong River with Sue Perkins [BBC]
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"Sue Perkins embarks on a life-changing journey up the Mekong - South East Asia's greatest river - in this entertaining and illuminating series...".
By entertaining and illuminating I assume they mean excrement. I for one cannot watch another middle-class over-educated bore 'finding' themselves on a 'journey'. How much longer do we have to suffer this cliched ballbag of bollocky self-discovery by the priviledged. She isn't even vaguely likable! At least Palin had that in his favour.
Oh well, I hope she had a lovely time and 'found' herself. Zzzzzzz.
By entertaining and illuminating I assume they mean excrement. I for one cannot watch another middle-class over-educated bore 'finding' themselves on a 'journey'. How much longer do we have to suffer this cliched ballbag of bollocky self-discovery by the priviledged. She isn't even vaguely likable! At least Palin had that in his favour.
Oh well, I hope she had a lovely time and 'found' herself. Zzzzzzz.
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So you're looking for someone like Joey Essex I'm assuming.
You assume incorrectly. I am looking for a well-rounded educated person who has lived full a life, has met interesting people, is well traveled and has had a varied career path.
What I am NOT looking for, is someone who still thinks they are at university, only mixes with peers of similar ilk, and has a myopic worldview only to discover (at our cost) that 'baby elephants' are amazing and seeing 'orphanages in Cambodia' is a 'life-changing experience'. Geezus, enough.
Totally agree with the rest of your post too. Sue Perkins 'discovering herself'. Uh...no thank you.
I hope not, she is over exposed on t.v., but she ticks a few boxes.
http://i.imgur.com/qDFB74s.jpg
Unfortunately, her current TV activity amounts to substantially more than that - as this "documentary" proves.
Christ I hope not , can't even watch the bake off because of her and Mel's pathetic unfunny comments
Don't start on my Mellie ;-)
And yet, ironically, you`ve done a bang-up job of publicising it to people who might otherwise have passed on it! On behalf of the delightful Perks, ithankyew......
Hmm. I can only guess it's because she's under contact to the BBC, that they found her this job. Maybe they couldn't get anyone more suited, willing to do it.
With the success of "Bake-Off" yet another naffin' cookery programme, they probably think with her name in the title, (often a give-away for something rubbish), she'll "engage" or in the circumstances "navigate," (a favourite word of the BBC when they are trying to influence the PBP), the Bake-Off viewers will want to watch it.
Will it include a section on "101 ways to make interesting meals out of naffin' rice?"
Anyway, the BBC want prosecuting under the Trades Descriptions Act. They've described her as a "comedian."
Someone up there likes her, clearly. She had a failed pilot as host of a culinary based quiz panel show, people got tired of her and the other Oxbridge ninny eating stuff in panto gear to recreate food from the past when Heston came along and actually cooked it rather than scoffed it... she's not unattractive, she speaks well and she's well educated but honestly Mel and Sue are upper class charisma vacuums apart and grown women tittering over childish innuendo when they are together. I get Perkins and Balding are basically as safe as can be in their career prospects but for the life of me I cannot understand why anyone would watch an hour of her basically having a mid life holiday/what I done on my gap year trip at the expense of the BBC license fee. They sent Russell Brand across America, Stephen Fry across America, Channel 4 sent Sean Lock and John Richardson across America, BBC are sending Perkins up a river... she's not exactly Bruce Parry in terms of being suited for the job, is she?
Seriously, can't these folks just go on holiday without expecting to be commissioned, take a camera crew and get a pay cheque at the end?
That's the way the BBC work, I could never understand the attraction of "Bake Off,"
BUt I believe it had good viewing figures.
I accidentally caught a bit once, "Talk about a making a drama out of a doughnut."
Christ, the resentment is palpable through the screen. "Good" viewing figures? It had staggering viewing figures. Still, 12 million people must be wrong when stacked against the wisdom of Doghouse.
Same here. I find her irritating and not remotely funny. Quite what her qualifications are for doing this also, god knows.
Sunday at 8pm. Luckily I'll be at Hammersmith Apollo watching Billy Idol!
Most reality shows, particularly cooking competitions, bring in the ratings. I think the success of the show has more to do with the competitive cooking aspect so people can pick a competitor to side with to support as the show goes on and less to do with the now tired innuendo about soggy bottoms and rolling out the tarts.
For cryin' out loud. So a lot of people watched it, but a hell of a lot more watched anything else but that.
What's wrong with saying it had "good viewing figures." I've absolutely no idea what the exact numbers were as I don't give a toss.
Are you going to say I'm lying?
I'm with David Attenborough, he said there's too many cooking programmes on the BBC.
Are going to have a go at him too?