Long since having taken the decision to dump the goggle box, the one thing I miss more than comedy shows is documentaries. Let me qualify that, interesting documentaries. When I was getting rid of the video tapes I mentioned that a significant portion were documentaries and a few people who requested tapes were enquiring after specific ones. Some I had.
Ridiculously I kept a few. No tv, but a box of tapes, including two of my faviourites, Red Star In Orbit (about Korolev, the Soviet Chief Designer) and Billy, How Did You Do It? concerning Billy Wilder. Both three part investigations. I think it would be safe to say that BBC2 (and later to a degree, early Channel 4) played a better part in my general education than my schooling.
I regret that television-commissioned documentaries - decent films in their own right, just not fiction... - rarely get released as DVD, or made available in some high quality format, beyond the original broadcasts and subsequent repeats. People read non-fiction, but a concomitant amount of non-fiction just doesn't appear available in the corresponding visual media market.
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Date: 2006-09-26 12:38 pm (UTC)Ridiculously I kept a few. No tv, but a box of tapes, including two of my faviourites, Red Star In Orbit (about Korolev, the Soviet Chief Designer) and Billy, How Did You Do It? concerning Billy Wilder. Both three part investigations. I think it would be safe to say that BBC2 (and later to a degree, early Channel 4) played a better part in my general education than my schooling.
I regret that television-commissioned documentaries - decent films in their own right, just not fiction... - rarely get released as DVD, or made available in some high quality format, beyond the original broadcasts and subsequent repeats. People read non-fiction, but a concomitant amount of non-fiction just doesn't appear available in the corresponding visual media market.