Educated TV presenters
Bring back the days when TV programmes (I'm thinking here mainly documentaries) that were presented by people who actually knew what they were talking about.
It's a crazy concept I know, but we've got cookery shows presented by people who can't cook and property shows presented by Aled fucking Jones!
Every documentary seems to need a 'star name' attached to it to get people to watch.
Ross kemp? Just because he played a vicious thug in a soap opera, does not instantly make him the best person to front a show about vicious thugs.
In the old days, newsreaders were journalists first, presenters second. Now their presenters first, and Celebrity Dance Wank contestants second. Being a journalist, or having some insight into the news doesn't come into it anymore.

When I hear David Tennant doing a voice over on a nature show, it doesn't have the same resonance as Attenborough, or Julian Pettifer.
It just makes me think, if they can't get someone who knows their stuff to do the talking, I'd rather they didn't bother.

It seems the only show on telly that does it properly is Top Gear. But even then Clarkson admitted when he got the gig years ago he knew fuck all about cars!
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 15:51, 1 reply)

And bring back ugly news presenters! I don't trust the pretty ones. We don't want to turn in America, do we?

(universalpsykopath loves what you've done with your hair., Thu 22 Sep 2011, 15:53, closed)