Episode 18 Points of View

This week, your reviews are in on a couple of big dramas back on

our screens, and you have spotted, not one, but two BBC blunders.

Welcome to the show that tells them in there

exactly what you think of their work.

Welcome to your Points Of View.

First up this week, it has been all change for

a critically acclaimed drama returning to BBC One recently.

Series Two of The Missing features a new case, cast and setting,

with the action moving from France to a military base in Germany.

Rather than beginning with the disappearance of a child,

this time round the story started with

a dramatic reappearance of a woman missing for 11 years.

Daddy.

Look at you.

My little girl.

While The Missing's last outing in 2014 saw it scoop

BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations, after watching the start of

this series, it appears you feel IT could be a worthy award winner.

However, some have been left baffled and bewildered,

as the tale, full of twists, unfolds over two timelines.

Well, help is at hand. As one of you kindly pointed out,

the appearance of retired detective Julien Baptiste, the series'

sole returning character, could hold the clue to circumventing confusion.

Right. The Missing continues on Wednesday nights.

Tuesday night on BBC Two, meanwhile,

saw Jacques Peretti aiming to get to the bottom of

a very different mystery - Who's Spending Britain's Billions?

The one-off documentary saw the investigative reporter on

a mission to uncover waste in the public sector.

Revealing a world of contracts covered by confidential deals,

Jacques also discovered little-known projects funded by taxpayers' cash.

Though there's been no fines,

there has been a 62% reduction in dog poo.

So maybe these strange glasses are not a waste of money after all.

There was praise for Peretti's investigation.

But it also came in for criticism, with some of you frustrated

at the way the programme and the presenter tackled the subject.

And in a timely occurrence after our film last week on the use of

stronger language before the watershed, Jacques left many of you

unimpressed with the utterance of one word prior to 9:00pm.

-The place seems to have less dog

-BLEEP.

So why wasn't that word bleeped out before the watershed?

We asked the BBC.

And here's the response.

Next up, the Friday night panel show packed with prevarication.

Reaching the penultimate episode of its tenth series this week,

Would I Lie To You? sees celebrities telling true or perhaps tall tales,

with the opposing team having to separate fact from fiction.

I once bought an Irish accent mouth spray from him,

because I genuinely believed it would give me an Irish accent.

I'd be fibbing if I said you weren't firm fans.

But the mouth movements of a Mancunian on last Friday's show

did not leave you in such good humour.

# Oh, no, you've got it all wrong

# How can you think you're chocolate when you're chewing gum? #

The constant gum-chewing by the Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder

left you revolted.

How...unprofessional.

Indeed. And just in case you're waiting in suspense

to find out if Henning really did buy that breath spray...

My name is Bill, and Henning bought an Irish breath spray...

CHEERING AND LAUGHTER

Who'd have thought it?

Fibs and falsehoods were also coming to the fore on Tuesday night,

as the drama anthology Ordinary Lies

returned to BBC One for a second series.

With this season set in the call centre and warehouse

of a Welsh sports company, each of the show's six episodes

delves into a deceit in the life of a different worker.

HE GROWLS

-I couldn't tell you.

-Why not?

-Because I knew you would disapprove.

-Because you blame me.

-I don't blame you.

-You still blame me.

On Twitter, there was talk of a compelling comeback.

And some fantastic acting.

Shall we find out?

Yes!

But the glowing reviews weren't unanimous by any means -

with some who caught Ordinary Lies' previous series

feeling so far the follow-up has fallen flat.

You can make up your own mind

by catching Episode One of Ordinary Lies on the iPlayer now.

BBC Two was digging up ancient secrets from a far-flung land

last Sunday, as Dan Snow whisked us off to eastern Asia,

and the world's largest single burial site.

In The Greatest Tomb On Earth,

the historian was joined by anthropologist

Dr Alice Roberts and explorer-engineer Dr Albert Lin,

at the final resting place of China's first emperor.

Enlisting forensic science and world experts,

the three made a dramatic discovery.

It's always been assumed that China developed in isolation.

But if that's not the case,

if the first emperor of China imported

Western ideas and techniques to create his extraordinary necropolis,

well, that forces us to completely rewrite the history books.

The show's revelations proved riveting for some.

That is the kind of e-mail they like round here.

But at least one of you felt there was too much focus

on the presenting trio, when what you really wanted to see

was more of the ancient site itself.

Coming under BBC Four's microscope last Friday,

a culture from more modern times.

In The Story Of Skinhead, director and DJ Don Letts

traced the history of the subculture

from the late '60s to the present day -

along the way revealing how, while the skinhead world

has been associated with violence, its origins lay in a cultural

collision that couldn't be further from its tarnished image.

In London there's a lot of interaction

with the Afro-Caribbeans. What was going on here?

There was a good number of black skinheads in Bradford, yeah.

We didn't consider them black.

-They were skinheads.

-They was mates.

-They were our mates.

Don's exploration of the skinhead scene was well received by most.

But others were quick to spot omissions

in the DJ's exploration of the subculture.

Finally this week, you have spotted not one,

but two glaring gaffes on your screens of late.

Let's go, shall we?

The first clanger comes courtesy of the Thursday before last's

BBC News at Six. A report covering the award of this year's

Nobel Prize for Literature to the singer Bob Dylan included

archive shots of the artist, but not all was as it appeared.

# How does it feel...? #

Bob Dylan, like Shakespeare, has that knack for coining

a phrase that becomes part of everyday speech.

Two of the videos that were shown were of a Bob Dylan lookalike

from what must have been a talent show or a tribute band.

They were not Bob Dylan.

HE PLAYS Times They Are A-Changin'

I am not Bob Dylan. Do not get confused, BBC.

HE STRUMS

Well spotted, Tom.

As Bob himself would have protested, "It Ain't Me, Babe."

The footage was in fact of a Dylan impersonator.

Here's what the editor

of the BBC six o'clock bulletin had to say.

The second slip-up was spotted in BBC One's coverage

of Monday's Parade Of Heroes, in Manchester which celebrated

our Olympians' and Paralympians' achievements in Rio this summer.

Now, keep your eyes peeled.

It's going to be a fantastic afternoon,

people coming out on the streets to show their appreciation

for what was a tremendous summer of sport.

Did you see it?

It's going to be a fantastic afternoon,

people coming out on the streets to show their appreciation...

Ouch! I don't think so, Tony.

They've held their hands up to this one too, though.

It's the second time in just this series of Points Of View

that you've spotted our flag being flown incorrectly on the BBC.

So, in an attempt to stop this flag flying faux pas once and for all,

we've created a guide to getting it right.

Now, BBC producers, please take note.

All you need to do to ensure the flag is being flown correctly

is to look at the white band on the right.

If the red band's at the bottom of the white area,

you're flying the flag the wrong way round.

The red band on THIS side should always be at the top.

And, just in case that hasn't sunk in, we've even made

a visual guide to flying the flag available on our website.

Producers, and of course anyone else, do feel free

to download that for future reference.

Our website address is...

As well as our handy guide,

you will also find iPlayer links to all the shows discussed this week.

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Points Of View is back, BBC One, 2.55pm next Sunday,

when for one week only, Radio 1's Scott Mills will be responsible

for rounding up your reviews so please look after him.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.