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mazzy50
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On BBC2 now - with Simon Reeve. Anyone else watching?
Starting out in Mexico - quite interesting so far. I like his style as he doesn't just show the spangly bits.
Starting out in Mexico - quite interesting so far. I like his style as he doesn't just show the spangly bits.
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He's a an awful lot like Brian Cox on 'Wonders Of The Solar System'(on immediately after).Both very talented guys with a great future ahead of them i'm sure.
Yet another programme which involves someone on holiday and BBC have paid to see thier Holiday video.
Loux theroux, paul merton, Charlie Boorman, Stephan fry, Robson Green,
Can someone tell me how to get a TV company to pay for me to do all the things I would like to do on a travelling holiday ?
This Guy does seem to be more Coxy.
I certainly wouldn't lump Simon Reeve together with the various zelebs that manage to bag themselves a gig overseas (I'm not including Stephen Fry) . He usually provides some interesting insight into the places he visits - and i don't think he's in the business of drumming up trade. It's not necessarily meant to make you want to go to Mexico, it's hardly'Wish you were here' and I really don't think it's meant to be.
But yeah - safer to watch from my sofa!
That's generally true everywhere though.
I would like to do this job too but then again they probably wouldn't hire me since I would have to avoid the USA, Australia, Italy and the Middle East and any Islamic country. What show did Robson Green do, I can't imagine a more boring travel companion.
I say we blame it all on Michael Palin. I hope there isn't another Stephen Fry as he seemed rather ill-suited for the job as was Paul Merton.
Have some charisma and screen presence?
You've got your work cut out for you, I fear.
defo think that he is showing us more than just the beaten track. ( lucky to not be beaten so far ) .
He is digging up some resonance tho, very good.
There is a bit of Alan Partridge about him ...( " that bloody hurts" ...wrestling LOL):rolleyes::D
Don't give up, Robson Green apparently had a show as well. Plus look at all those store dummies that worked on 'Wish You Were Here' back in the day.
I think this is where a proper journalist/presenter comes into his or her own. Fry and Merton may be amusing (although I have to say I stopped finding Merton entertaining several years ago now), but that won't automatically make them good presenters for a travelogue.
I like Simon because he isn't afraid to show the warts and get slightly political. I don't suppose he has endeared himself to industry in Canada with his expose of their practices whilst mining gold. I wouldn't even have known about it without this programme - one of the reasons I like his style and find it both entertaining and informative.
Girls with abs bigger than my biceps :eek:
Yeah, I wouldn't have called them girls to their faces
WOW YOU are reaaaalllyyy GOOD.:yawn:
You can judge peoples personality and looks just by dubious anonymous writings.;):rolleyes:
I hold my hands up.
All these others deserve the acclaim as charismatic and camera centric.:):)
I think you would have to admit that you were very quick to condemn this programme well before you had seen enough to make a reasoned judgement.
Surely you would agree that suggesting Simon Reeve should go under the same heading as Robson Green going fishing around the world is not fair or indeed accurate?
I didnt condem it, I just think, here we go, yet another person getting paid to travel around and go/do what they want ?
They would appear to be all categories of Holiday videos.
But I am willing to concede that this is a good programme to avoid this thread becoming of topic and into a debate as to what and what is not a holiday video.:)
I'm fairly sure I saw some soundbite from Gordon Brown about expanding the availability of allotments in the UK - it immediately made me think of Havana and I wondered if that was what had given him the idea. I think he was talking about using bits of unused waste ground in cities to make allotments.
Yes - it was a bit of an eye-opener when the guy in Mexico said that the crime and murder rate now made Mexico more dangerous than Columbia.
:eek: And that takes some doing.
I remember his Meet the Stans programmes and Places that don`t exist.
I suppose after Equator and Tropic of Capricorn he had to do Tropic of Cancer.