Episode 20 Points of View

Good afternoon to and welcome to the last programme in this

series of Points Of View.

It may be the last, but you, the viewers, will not let us

go out quietly.

So, hold on to your seats for the next 30 minutes,

and your review of the TV that you've been watching this week.

Every weekend, parties are happening across the UK.

But how many of them end up like this?

CALL HANDLER: Emergency, which service?

I want to speak to the police.

We start with Monday night,

and proving yet again that it is never afraid to tackle challenging

subjects in potentially controversial ways,

BBC Three put sex on trial.

What the actual hell are you people talking about?

It is rape, OK?

It's a unique event, and at the end of it we'll know what

they think you can and can't do when it comes to sex.

The interactive documentary presented a group of young people with

a dramatised scenario, and asked them, as well as the viewers,

to decide, is this rape?

Much praise for this, especially on social media.

Yasmin Chaudhry described the show as "fantastic", giving it a special

"wow, wow, wow". Aaron Smythe said it "Was a great show.

"If it makes just one young lad think twice, then absolute job done."

While Bill praised the channel "for airing a programme that

"finally educates people on what consent actually is".

From one set of moral dilemmas to another, and the ever mounting

issue of food waste is Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's latest mission.

His aim? To reduce the staggering amount of food we waste every year.

..yet a third of all the food we produce never gets eaten.

That has to be wrong.

Oh, my God. You do get a better class of waste at Waitrose.

Oh, beautiful pears.

'With your help, I want to do something about it.'

But this might well be Hugh's mission impossible as he quickly realises,

when it comes to food, the supermarkets are king.

Do you expect to make a profit on the farm this year? No. None? No.

Really? How long has it been like that?

How long have you been in that cycle? Probably longer than is...

is good for us as a family business.

If this continues, what's the future?

Closure, basically.

SHE EXHALES

You're upset, aren't you?

Next up, making her much heralded return to the BBC,

Nigella Lawson was keeping it simple in the kitchen.

'Simply Nigella is about dishes that do just that.

'Recipes that relax and restore...

'..uplift and enrich.'

And that's perfect.

Lamb ribs are cut from the breast, and I lived on breast of lamb

when I was a student.

I used to braise them, in one piece, all the time.

Now I go for the ribs, which I roast with cumin seeds

and nigella seeds, and I can tell you, it is the way forward.

In what world do students see lamb as an everyday ingredient?

I've been a student, and now I work, but I still see

lamb as an expensive luxury ingredient, a treat on a Sunday.

An everyday ingredient?

No way. And how many other people in this country will think like that?

Nigella seems but a parody in the way she presents

and the way she uses expensive, luxury ingredients.

I could keep moaning, but now I'm off to knock up a quick

lobster ravioli with some unicorn sweat and gold leaf.

Simply Nigella was the title, but for some it was just a bit too simple.

Don't mind me while I mash.

My toast of choice is ready and waiting.

And I can pile this on.

Beans AND cheese, Kat? You could be starting something there.

If cookery isn't your thing, what about a bit of pottering?

Hot on the heels of The Great British Bake Off, the latest

offering from the same producers, The Great Pottery Throw Down.

And on BBC Two, Tuesday night,

there was certainly a lot of familiarity with the format.

'It's day one of the first-ever search for Britain's best

'home potter.' There were the group of contestants...

I'm so passionate about ceramics.

..the two judges whose job it is to choose

which of the potters would leave the competition each week...

You're going to have to do something with that. Just go bold with it.

..and a fair bit of innuendo that made Mary Berry's "soggy bottom" seem

quite tame.

MUSIC: Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers

'Size matters.' 27.5. It is quite primal.

It's a very sexual feeling when you're working with clay.

Is pottery better than sex? No.

Am I being really prudish to say it was just innuendo...?

In fact, it was beyond innuendo, it was sexual connotation,

and they were getting extremely rude and vulgar, and it is pottery.

I appreciate that it was over the watershed, at nine o'clock,

but it is pottery.

There was all the slipping and sliding and the firm hand movements.

We all saw Ghost, we know how this ends.

It is almost too easy to make jokes about it.

So, leaving the innuendo aside, is pottery the new baking?

Did it get you all fired up, or did you glaze over? I'm sorry.

Who better placed to judge this one than a group of potters?

We went along to Parade Mews Pottery

group in South London to hear what they thought of The Throw Down.

MUSIC: You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) by Dead Or Alive

I thought Throw Down was interesting.

I actually found it a bit sentimental

and kind of nostalgic, in a way.

I found it entertaining. Oh, gosh.

It was slightly crazy.

I thought the show was really interesting, I thought

it was a great introduction to pottery for people who

haven't been exposed to it before. This is how it is going to work, OK.

Each week, one of you will be named Top Potter.

Maybe Sara Cox wasn't the best choice of presenter,

but I still think she was funny... You know, her interactions

and stuff with the contestants, she seemed really lovely and seemed to

be having fun with it, even though she didn't know too much about it.

I feel like I just want to rub your shoulders. I'll do some sort of...

I'm fine. Sara Cox is trying to throw in sexual innuendo at every

point possibly. I felt like that was her only joke,

and that frustrated me.

Does your wife ever...do pottery with you? No, she doesn't.

Does she not? No. I thought that Kate and Keith did an OK job.

Morning, people. Hey! Hello, everybody.

Usually you have one baddie and one goodie,

and they were both very supportive.

Potters of the world unite. LAUGHTER

'They were quite a strange pair, I thought.'

I didn't really get why Keith was crying over pots at the end of it.

You were so nervous. And you've just excelled yourself.

He was obviously prepared for that, he had

brought a handkerchief. But it was a little bit unexpected.

I do think Throw Down could become a really popular show

and do for pottery what The Bake Off has done for baking.

Throw Down will be Bake Off for a couple of weeks

and then there'll be something else that people will talk about.

It won't last. I thought it was OK.

I couldn't help but compare it a bit to The Bake Off.

Is Throw Down the new Bake Off? No, probably not.

I think it wishes it was...

This is your mammoth task.

..but it's not.

Bake Off rules.

From the search for the best potter to BBC Three's hunt

for Britain's Biggest Sexists on Tuesday night.

Sexists of Britain, your moment has come.

Journalist Leah Green presented the contenders for this most

un-coveted of prizes.

For sheer stupidity and self sabotage, I'm going

to go with employers who discriminate against pregnant women.

But, for some, the fact that only men were targeted meant

the programme makers had decided already that sexism

was a one-way street.

It was clear from the offset the programme was biased,

misinforming and rather denigrating.

The show demonstrates the lack of professionalism and ethical

journalism that I would expect from a public service broadcaster.

For Britain's biggest sexist TV programme,

I'd like to nominate Britain's Biggest Sexists.

The show had an air of hypocrisy about it by only discussing

the problem of sexism towards women.

It is of course more prevalent,

but does not define the concept of sexism.

Two knighted titans of stage and screen graced us

with their acting presence on BBC Two this week.

What performances is this? Well, tonight will be your...

227th performance of the part, Sir.

Sirs Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen starred in

an adaptation of The Dresser, the story of an ageing actor's

intense relationship with his personal assistant.

This decidedly old-fashioned play had lots of you shouting, "Bravo."

The BBC Two production of The Dresser on Saturday night was

a masterclass and worth every penny of the BBC licence fee.

Really, the BBC at its best.

Sir Ian McKellen's characterisation of Norman was brilliant.

His monologue at the end where he isn't mentioned by the man

he has served faithfully all those years brought me to tears.

Sir Anthony Hopkins's Sir was egotistical and self-centred,

and watching his mind breaking down was at times uncomfortable to watch.

Seems like years since we've had such quality drama on the BBC

such as The Dresser.

The superb production was second to none. Well done, BBC.

You're a fine one!

I must say.

You of all people.

You disappoint me. If you don't mind me saying so.

Staying with drama,

and after last week's uproar over the pre-watershed scheduling

of the new police drama Cuffs, there's been quite a bit of debate

over whether there are currently just too many cop shows on the BBC.

Control, this is 220...

As well as Cuffs, there's River, From Darkness, Arne Dahl,

The Young Montalbano,

and comedy series Top Coppers.

Not bad.

It seems the police are everywhere on the BBC, you just can't escape them.

MUSIC: Theme from The Naked Gun

I have noticed recently that we've an awful lot of police dramas on.

Cuffs, River, and even Arne Dahl on BBC Four.

Is it possible to sort of spread them out over the year?

Sometimes it feels like every other scripted programme on BBC One

is a police drama, and few of them distinctive.

I'd like to see more comedy, and dramas in other settings.

But not everyone is complaining. Some of you can't get enough cop action.

Every time I see another crime show on TV I think, "Not another one!"

But they've all been amazing. Cuffs is funny, River is interesting.

I don't know quite what is going to happen.

Partners In Crime was hilarious, one of the best shows I've ever seen.

And New Tricks probably had their best...

Definitely had their best season ever.

I really love that one, so, yes, keep them coming.

I think they were having too much fun with that blue light.

Thanks to all of you who got in touch to air your views this week,

and every week of this series. We've been overwhelmed by the number of you

who took the time to write, call and record your own viewer videos.

The first episode of this new series captured the charm,

wit and humour of the original. It was fantastic, I just loved it.

Shame on you, BBC.

It was inspirational and motivating,

and it just proves that anyone can follow their dreams and succeed.

It is addictive viewing, it is a guilty pleasure,

but one that I shall be rejoicing in many times, hopefully.

I was really angry and upset. This is a family programme.

It is not exactly ground-breaking television,

but it's certainly enjoyable in its own right.

I'm really looking forward to the next episode.

I'm sure there will be further twists and intrigue to come.

I was very disappointed in the programme.

I'm totally addicted to it, but, like, it hurts my stomach at the same time.

In praise or criticism,

good or bad, your views are what makes this programme a success.

Without them, the show simply wouldn't exist.

We are off air now until the spring,

but that doesn't mean you can't continue the conversation

online, on Facebook, for example, on Twitter, on our message boards.

So do keep talking there, we will return to do it all again in 2016.

Until then, goodbye.