SBS Food for Thought
January 20th 2011 23:25
By Jonathan Scutt 15/01/11
I have really been enjoying QI on SBS, mostly because Stephen Fry is full of interesting facts. (Well he’s very good at reading them off an auto-cue at least). Rory McGrath however seems to be genuinely full of them whenever he appears on the show. I wouldn’t have thought calcium was the most prominent metal in the human body! I would have said iron, & then the big siren would have gone off.
I do however get a bit sick of Alan Davies interjecting constantly & saying something stupid. Some of the other guests on the show hardly get a word in edge ways or length ways. Alan is the QI equivalent of Hamish Blake on Spicks n Specks.
Another show I enjoyed was the series on food additives. Finally a show where somebody takes the time to explain what goes in to our food instead of just cooking it up & serving it to Matt Preston! Having said that I must of course mention Iron Chef, which is like a cross between Master Chef & The Samurai. I wonder if losers on Iron Chef are expected to take the honorable way out the way they did in that Shogun docu-drama?
Finally there was the Super sizers go… series which looks like getting a repeat screening soon. This is Master Chef crossed with Time Team. It’s nice to see bizarre foods from the past explained & devoured with a sense of history & a sense of humor.
It seems that all of the shows I’ve praised so far have come from the BBC rather than SBS themselves. Thankfully we have SBS & the ABC to provide us with some decent documentaries. And don’t forget all those American docos they show as well.
I’m sure I’ll be commenting on the ‘Immigration Nation’ series soon.
I’ll also have to write a follow up to my Wikileaks blog about the recent doco on The Pentagon Papers.
I have really been enjoying QI on SBS, mostly because Stephen Fry is full of interesting facts. (Well he’s very good at reading them off an auto-cue at least). Rory McGrath however seems to be genuinely full of them whenever he appears on the show. I wouldn’t have thought calcium was the most prominent metal in the human body! I would have said iron, & then the big siren would have gone off.
I do however get a bit sick of Alan Davies interjecting constantly & saying something stupid. Some of the other guests on the show hardly get a word in edge ways or length ways. Alan is the QI equivalent of Hamish Blake on Spicks n Specks.
Another show I enjoyed was the series on food additives. Finally a show where somebody takes the time to explain what goes in to our food instead of just cooking it up & serving it to Matt Preston! Having said that I must of course mention Iron Chef, which is like a cross between Master Chef & The Samurai. I wonder if losers on Iron Chef are expected to take the honorable way out the way they did in that Shogun docu-drama?
Finally there was the Super sizers go… series which looks like getting a repeat screening soon. This is Master Chef crossed with Time Team. It’s nice to see bizarre foods from the past explained & devoured with a sense of history & a sense of humor.
It seems that all of the shows I’ve praised so far have come from the BBC rather than SBS themselves. Thankfully we have SBS & the ABC to provide us with some decent documentaries. And don’t forget all those American docos they show as well.
I’m sure I’ll be commenting on the ‘Immigration Nation’ series soon.
I’ll also have to write a follow up to my Wikileaks blog about the recent doco on The Pentagon Papers.
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