Have you seen these people?
Of course you have!
Watched the final segment of BBC1's Big Cat Week from last night. It was the most irksome of the run, with Jonathan Scott tear-arsing around the scrubland trying to find Toto, the baby cheetah, as if his life - and not just a run of five natural history programmes - depended on it. He didn't find him in the end, despite some dramatic editing, and a false alarm with a different baby cheetah, that almost finished him off, but that's nature, Jonathan, as you know better than any of us, having lived in Africa for 30 years! The "chase" to find him was utterly artificial (by which I mean, they were actually chasing, but the "deadline" was because it was Friday). So what if a man and a camera crew didn't find a cheetah and her cub? Africa's a big place. If a cheetah sits down in the bush and a TV crew doesn't record it, has she really sat down at all? Yes.
I thank the BBC for filming all this cat action, but it's been frustrating as hell watching it. All those cutaways to Saba grinning like a fool when she found Bella the leopard, when we could have been watching - hey! - Bella the leopard. It's all wrong. Good luck, Toto and Notch and Chui, may you survive another year in the scary old natural world, and may you roam far enough that the "spotters" don't spot you in time for next year's Big Cat Week.
Simon King, get back to Naturewatch. You other pair, watch some David Attenborough.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 12:08 AM
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I prefer seeing Simon King looking wet and cold somewhere in Scotland trying to see birds. He has a fine range of hats for such environments.
Andrew, I would be interested to hear your opinion on another BBC documentary, Tribe, on Sunday's at 9pm. Perhaps you could write about that?
I've never seen any of those people.
I was out this evening, Adam, so I missed Tribe, but I loved the last series.
was Tribe the thing where that poor man went around taking various local hallucinogens with different people and being sick? That was interesting, but painful TV.
Could well have been! It's really good, in the episode last night he was with a tribe who spit blood on you as a blessing and two funny comments were great: some children he was playing with remarked that he "jumped like a girl" and the elders said he "spits like a child"! And Andrew, my name is Aidan not Adam!!
It was late when I wrote that message, Aiden. Apologies.
Aidan!!!!!
Three Cheers to the entire crew of Big Cat Diary. I salute to their dedication and passion in making such a wonderful serial. It all looks simple but its them who know the pain, hard work and joy in putting the pieces together. Great work guys.
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