{"id":653,"date":"2004-04-21T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T10:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/04\/bbc2_at_40\/"},"modified":"2004-04-21T10:40:30","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T10:40:30","slug":"bbc2_at_40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/bbc2_at_40\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC2 at 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cult\/ilove\/tv\/bbc2\/\">BBC2 was 40<\/a>, and in celebration they aired a three programme detailing some of the highlights of its history to date, as well as one or two lowlights. All in all it was a really good look back at the channel &#8211; and given the recent deterioration of Channel 4, probably the best channel we have in the UK.<br \/>\nAll the major dramas and strands were covered, and they didn&#8217;t just do the stuff you expected. <i>Fawlty Towers<\/i> just got a brief clip, while <i>The Borgias<\/i> got an extended interview. Slightly annoying that Ian Richardson gave away the ending of <i>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy<\/i>, but we&#8217;ll let that go.<br \/>\nI just had one grievance with the programme. Unless I blinked or something, they seemed to entirely miss out one of my favourite programmes, and nearly the only serious look at non-natural history science on British television &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/science\/horizon\/\">Horizon<\/a>. I suspect that Horizon was probably a BBC1 transfer to BBC2. But for as long as I can remember it has been a mainstay of BBC2 so probably deserved to be covered.<br \/>\nThe other obvious exclusion was any mention of imported programming. So barely a mention of <i>Star Trek<\/i> and certainly no <i>Simpsons<\/i>.<br \/>\nGo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offthetelly.co.uk\/\">here<\/a> for a really thorough history of BBC2 from Off The Telly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night BBC2 was 40, and in celebration they aired a three programme detailing some of the highlights of its history to date, as well as one or two lowlights. All in all it was a really good look back at the channel &#8211; and given the recent deterioration of Channel 4, probably the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}