I’m not sure I like the idea of Dermot O’leary’s style of presenting hosting this, it’ll all be done in that ironic sarcastic style, I’d like to have seen someone maybe a bit older who is likely to talk about the older LWT stuff as if they’d actually watched it.
"Your destruction of television history starts right here!"
I’m not sure I like the idea of Dermot O’leary’s style of presenting hosting this, it’ll all be done in that ironic sarcastic style, I’d like to have seen someone maybe a bit older who is likely to talk about the older LWT stuff as if they’d actually watched it.
He's 45 years old! LWT had only been going for five years when he was born.
Channel 4 started around when I was born, but I'd be pushed to remember anything before about 1990
Not being alive when something happens doesn't mean that someone doesn't know about a subject or can't present a documentary about it.
If that was the case there'd never be any history programmes on TV. You never hear the argument that Dan Snow can't present a documentary about the war because he was born 30 years after it
I’m not sure I like the idea of Dermot O’leary’s style of presenting hosting this, it’ll all be done in that ironic sarcastic style, I’d like to have seen someone maybe a bit older who is likely to talk about the older LWT stuff as if they’d actually watched it.
He's 45 years old! LWT had only been going for five years when he was born.
Channel 4 started around when I was born, but I'd be pushed to remember anything before about 1990
Such a bizarre reaction. He's not writing a dissertation or giving a talk at the BFI. He's hosting the show and presumably interviewing the guests (if it's not a talking heads job).
I'm sure the list of contributors in the press release isn't exhaustive, but I'm surprised by the omission of (Lord) Melvyn Bragg.
I'd be surprised if Danny Baker wasn't involved, he's usually good value on this kind of show - I know his main LWT work was regional, but the same applies to Sally James.
He's 45 years old! LWT had only been going for five years when he was born.
Channel 4 started around when I was born, but I'd be pushed to remember anything before about 1990
Such a bizarre reaction. He's not writing a dissertation or giving a talk at the BFI. He's hosting the show and presumably interviewing the guests (if it's not a talking heads job).
Quite.
Bradley Walsh wasn't born until 50 years after the London Palladium opened, but was still capable of presenting a 2018 documentary about the theatre's 100+ years history.
One does not need to have been alive since the dawn of time to be able to talk knowledgably about a given subject's history, if there are sufficient contemporary records etc from which a well-researched retrospective can be compiled. In the case of television history, much of the "contemporary records" is of course surviving mastertapes/recordings of the actual programmes themselves! (And surviving production paperwork etc)
My being under 40 years of age does not prevent me from knowing the music of Antonio Vivaldi or The Beatles. Or knowing about dinosaurs and Neanderthals. Or about the Industrial Revolution and World Wars I & II. Or about That Was The Week That Was and Larry Grayson's Generation Game.
Bradley Walsh wasn't born until 50 years after the London Palladium opened, but was still capable of presenting a 2018 documentary about the theatre's 100+ years history.
Ironic considering how many times I've silently seethed when Bradley tells a twentysomething that a question on The Chase is relating to something "before their time" and therefore they wouldn't know the answer.
Bradley Walsh wasn't born until 50 years after the London Palladium opened, but was still capable of presenting a 2018 documentary about the theatre's 100+ years history.
Ironic considering how many times I've silently seethed when Bradley tells a twentysomething that a question on The Chase is relating to something "before their time" and therefore they wouldn't know the answer.
Why? It’s perfectly acceptable that someone who didn’t live through the 1970s to know much less about the 1970s than a decade they did live through.
I’m not sure I like the idea of Dermot O’leary’s style of presenting hosting this, it’ll all be done in that ironic sarcastic style, I’d like to have seen someone maybe a bit older who is likely to talk about the older LWT stuff as if they’d actually watched it.
He's 45 years old! LWT had only been going for five years when he was born.
I can't see any problem with Dermot O'Leary presenting this.
Peter Kay presented Goodbye Granadaland. The Granada studios were completed in 1962, and Peter Kay wasn't born until 1973. I don't recall any complaints on here at the time about the choice of presenter.