Episode 11 Points of View

Good afternoon and welcome to a new series of Points Of View,

the place where you get to have your say

about what you've been watching on the BBC.

And for some eagle-eyed viewers of the news department down there,

that has meant catching out one of my esteemed fellow presenters

in a moment of...shall we call it a props malfunction?

Good morning and welcome to BBC News.

Plans for privately-run drunk tanks to tackle alcohol-fuelled disorder

have been backed by police chiefs.

Under the proposals, drunk troublemakers will be taken to cells

run by private firms and have to pay for it once they've sobered up.

Poor old Simon McCoy apparently lifting a pack of printer paper

instead of his tablet.

Now, how could anyone make a mistake like that?

Anyway, back to business, and while we may have been off for the summer,

there has certainly been a lot on your TV screens

and plenty of scope for comment.

Take primetime entertainment, for example.

There's been no great love-in for the Saturday night spectacular

I Love My Country,

the show that pits celebrities against one another

in the patriotism stakes.

SHOUTING AND CHEERING

Stop! Hang on! Stop, stop, stop! Move your fingers away from the pie.

The set looks like it was inspired by Danny Boyle's Olympic spectacle.

Perhaps the producers were hoping to tap into some of last summer's

incredible sense of national pride.

But, according to the majority of your comments,

they are failing miserably.

That's tough. Last night's episode was the penultimate in the series.

Around three million people have tuned in weekly

so it is not without its fans,

but will such loyalty to this game of national pride be enough

to ensure it gets another series?

We'll wait to see what happens with this one.

Peaky Blinders, BBC Two's new drama series,

set on the oppressive back streets of 1919, Birmingham,

being enjoyed by a lot of you,

but is there a problem with some of the actors' Brummie accents?

Mr Shelby, you have to do something about it. Damn right, Harry.

You pay the Peaky Blinders a lot of money for protection.

So are some of the actors failing in their attempts

to sound like they come from Birmingham?

Who better to be a judge of this

than the people of Birmingham themselves?

It was good till I got back from Belfast...

And in that pub there was a copper...

Handing out these...

And in that pub there was a copper.

Handing out these.

We don't say "copper" like "co-pper", we say "coppa".

Sounds a bit like a Londoner trying to...

do a Birmingham accent.

I have an alternative strategy.

Tell Curly to take her out to the old Tobacco Wharf.

I have an alternative strategy.

Tell Curly to take her out to the old Tobacco Wharf.

This accent is a little bit Birmingham and...mix of Irish?

You can see a little bit of the Irish come out, just a second,

but I thought that was quite good.

Look, I know having four kids without a woman is hard.

But my boot's harder.

Look, I know having four kids without a woman is hard.

But my boot's harder.

Just sounds more North.

Like Liverpool.

She sounds quite upper-class.

You're the law around here now...

Tommy, aren't you?

You're the law around here now, Tommy, aren't you?

I'd say that's more up North accent.

It sounded more southern than Midlands.

Definitely not a Brummie.

And didn't do a good job as a Brummie, either.

Maybe there is no such thing as a perfect Birmingham accent.

Are the criticisms fair?

We put them to the Peaky Blinders' production team.

Now, resounding approval for another drama

which finished its four-week run last Sunday.

The murder-mystery What Remains is in a league of its own,

according to some of you.

High praise for What Remains,

and we won't spoil the ending for you on this one, don't worry.

It's on iPlayer and will remain available to view

until just before ten o'clock tonight.

While we're on a roll,

congratulations all round for BBC Two's The Wipers Times.

Now, the result, if I say it myself,

is a thing of beauty.

Unlike any of you lot.

The 90-minute drama scripted by Ian Hislop

and Nick Newman tells the true story of World War I soldiers

who defied enemy fire - and their own command -

to publish a satirical magazine on the Western Front.

So, from now on...

you're going to be a lot more offensive.

You hear that, men?

From now on...

We are all going to be as offensive as possible.

Ben Chaplin as Captain Roberts,

reminding the troops of the magazine's motif,

one that is readily applied

by some of our Points Of View correspondents.

But here's one who's not offensive - he just wants an answer.

Colin Hewson asks why so much time is given over to presenter chat

during our live sports coverage.

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It's so annoying when you want to watch live sport,

all you can see is someone talking.

When I turn on the TV to watch sport I want to watch the live action,

and not people chatting in the studio...

Still lots more Tweets coming through.

..particularly when I can see there's live sport going on behind them.

I can't image any other sport being treated in the way that field events

are treated by the BBC.

I wouldn't expect to watch a football match

and seem them cut away to people talking in the studio.

When I was watching the World Athletic Championships it seemed

as though maybe as much as half of it was actually chat, and not sport.

And you've got a melange of spots on as well. I mean, what can we say?

I've no problem at all with good technical analysis,

and some of it was very good from Michael Johnson, for example.

But a lot of the chat was just waffle.

Love my shoes.

But what does the style guru, Mr Jackson, think of them?

I thought it was completely disrespectful of the commentators

to talk over Mo Farah's medal ceremony.

They didn't need to tell us what a great achievement it was of his,

we knew that already - they told us so many times.

Couldn't they just shut up?

I always say they're going to give out the medals to someone,

I always say they're going to give out the medals to someone,

that's guaranteed. What's not guaranteed is that

the same person's going to take two of those medals.

And when you do that, you become one of the Carl Lewises,

the, you know, Michael Johnson - I'll put myself in there,

you know, the Usain Bolts... That's totally deserved.

The BBC seems to assume that the viewer is only interested

in watching British stars or global superstars like Usain Bolt.

And Bolt's going to take the gold medal again!

But I'm sure the casual viewer would like to be informed about other

competitors and to see the whole event as it unfolds.

BBC Sport, can you please show us more live action

and less chat in the studio?

So, the World Athletic Championships could have done with a lot more

live action and a little less chat, according to Colin.

We put that suggestion to BBC Sport

and here is what they gave us in response.

So there you go, BBC Sport feel they get the balance right.

Now, I'm not one to talk presenters out of a job

but we are really keen to hear your thoughts on this subject.

Now, plenty to say about BBC One's brand new sitcom Father Figure.

Comedian Jason Byrne stars in the series,

which he's adapted from a Radio Two show.

But did the humour transfer to the TV screen?

Father Figure follows a long tradition of transfers

from radio to TV - think Mitchell and Webb, Miranda,

Little Britain, for example.

So perhaps this latest offering from the BBC comedy stable needs

just a bit more time to bed in.

Wow! Look at that! That purple vapour...

Someone who's already well-established in TV

is Professor Brian Cox,

who returned to our screens with the ambitious Science Britannica

this week.

He's already brought astronomy and physics to life on our TVs,

now Brian is attempting to guide us through 350 years of British science

in just three episodes.

No mean feat!

And if you think this week was good,

next week the Mancunian brain box will be making hydrogen explosions

in part two of the story of great scientific breakthroughs.

Now, there's also been a kind of breakthrough for those of you

who questioned why the BBC only has two of its channels -

BBC One and BBC Two - available in high definition.

That's a question we put to the director of TV, Danny Cohen,

in the last series, and this is what he said.

It is something we're looking at at the moment, at the BBC,

and looking at very, very closely.

I'm not able to announce today what we're going to do about it.

Well, we love to give you good news

and over the summer the BBC announced it plans to launch

five new HD channels

so by early next year we are promised HD versions of BBC Three,

Four, BBC News, CBeebies, and CBBC.

Of course, HD doesn't make bad programmes good

but it does make good programmes better.

And your favourites, some of the programmes you've rated highly

over the summer while we've been off air are here.

Aah!

D-Day was the single greatest military operation

the world had ever seen.

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It's the lifeblood of London.

Well, the buses are red, aren't they?

I'm going to do it! You'll be fine!

Some highlights from television there but remember,

whether it's good or bad TV you want to talk about,

we would love you to be in touch.

And you can still get in touch in all the usual ways - by post...

You can ring.

The number is charged as a local rate call from any landline.

There is still the trusty message board.

And there's e-mail.

You can find us now on Twitter,

we are @BBCPoV. Just look us up, give us your thoughts.

We'll include a selection of these in the series.

Good to be back and we'll do it all again next week,

same time, four o'clock.

Till then keep your eye on that TV and let us hear your point of view.

Goodbye.

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