A poor approach not very well executed. There are some very odd overhead crowd replication shots in S2 as well. It seems strange given the care taken everywhere else.

It’s a superbly shaggy version of the Partridge “it’s a kind of pun” payoff; I don’t know if the Gibbons write them now, but I always hear Pete Baynham’s delivery when Alan does a little bit of over-explaining. Alansplaining. Based on “mansplaining”?

Harsh

Luckily, I only have one dog now.

I’ve been here. I’ve lost colleagues in road accidents after long hours. All producers repeat after me: It. Is. Only. Television. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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OTD in 2014, the first episode of "Detectorists" was broadcast on BBC Four. I was instantly smitten, as was my colleague @drjn.bsky.social. We went on to organise a paper session on "Detectorists" at the 2018 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. 1/2

Oxford Colleges…

We did the same for The Thick Of It. And the permits for certain streets in SW1A are batshit crazy. Same in DC. Same outside the UN. Almost as if they didn’t want you to satirise them.

The BBC Comedy department had loads of received wisdom to prevent unnecessary spend. Syd Lotterby (or Jimmy Gilbert possibly) always maintained that “No one ever laughed at a crane shot.” “But is it *funny?*” was the unfailing riposte to any form of profligacy.

What’s that in installed PV-incident photon depth equivalent?