19.3.17 Up The Cuntin Swanny

This week's television schedules are the source of some very limited and mild amusement, and a trace amount of entertainment.  My observations include the use of 'British' as well as the sizing scale.  We have long since understood the strange need among programme makers to include Great and British in titles. There is surely, though, no need for both words to feature, especially as this signals some sort of link to 'Great Britain' and of course there is none, because Great British is NOT the adjectival term for 'like or from Great Britain'. There are a few entries that buck the trend.

The painting world has settled for 'big' and so the schedules include The Big Painting Challenge. However, interior designers see themselves as superior, and thus opt for 'great'.  Proof is found through the programme The Great Interior Design Challenge.  Potters are equally rewarded with greatness, with The Great Pottery Throw Down.  As ever, Michael Portillo is poncing around on his trains, in Great Continental Railway Journeys.

The Great British Benefits Handout combines Great and British, and British is equally popular in programme names.  The Best Of British Takeaways features this week, along with A Very British Brothel.

Elsewhere, Kevin McCloud bumbles on with his dirges in Grand Designs, while fronting Great British Buildings: Restoration Of The Year.  By way of a link towards water, I noticed the whereabouts of David Attenborough, through his BBC2 listings for Great Barrier Reef With David Attenborough.  There we are on to rivers.  After already posting stuff on this topic a week ago, I am glad to see the back of Griff Rhys Jones on the river, and of course it's impossible to ignore Jeremy Wade annoying the fuck out of things in rivers.  We are still stuck with Paxman, though.  Rivers With Jeremy Paxman is still with us, but now we've also got another bloody river gig - Down the Mighty River With Steve Backshall.  I'd rather watch Up The Cuntin Swanny With TMWSC.

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