Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Invisible Worlds

Richard Hammond, bless him, tried hard. He tried hard to take a high-tech look at the world around us. Richard was tall enough.

Director Gavin Maxwell however, did not have the stature to reach even the mediocre.

High-speed cameras, close ups and slow motion work should be the silk purse of subjects. Gavin Maxwell turned this into a pigs-ear of ugly proportions. The pig should have been deaf.

Shame is too good for a director who trashes the time, care, patience and expense of the supporting creators of this programme.

There was one noise amid the general cacophony that actually hurt.

In a better world it would have been less audible.
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Broadcast Tuesday 6 March 9pm 2010 BBC1

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