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**mussmicky** · 09-02-2009, 04:18 AM

Are we talking about The Sky At Night here?

Well....

...actually, I was talking about the ESA programme about the Hubble space telescope, which had so many things wrong about it, I was physically grinding my teeth with annoyance:

(1) Mixing presenters: the voice-over man was not the same as the person you saw.

(2) Bad choice of voice-over: every sentence was read out as if his life depended on it or that it was THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER!!!!

(3) Weak choice of visual presenter: classic example of taking a university lecturer and sticking them in front of a TV camera, and watching him fidget and wobble about constantly.

(4) Must mention EVERYTHING about astrophysic and astronomy: every second of dialogue was packed full of astronomy/astrophysics information but, more often than not, it had little relevance to the HST, how it worked or what it has been used for.

I could go on but the memory of the damn thing is still too painful....

...oh, and I'm none too keen on The Sky at Night anymore: Patrick Moore is a lovely old bloke but I honestly don't believe he does the world of astronomy any favours with his presenting style now. It worked to the masses 30 years ago and to the enthusiast 15 years ago, but it's just painfully dated now. Fire away with the flames!

09-02-2009, 04:18 AM	#12
mussmicky Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 519 Senior Member	Are we talking about The Sky At Night here? Well.......actually, I was talking about the ESA programme about the Hubble space telescope, which had so many things wrong about it, I was physically grinding my teeth with annoyance: (1) Mixing presenters: the voice-over man was not the same as the person you saw. (2) Bad choice of voice-over: every sentence was read out as if his life depended on it or that it was THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER!!!! (3) Weak choice of visual presenter: classic example of taking a university lecturer and sticking them in front of a TV camera, and watching him fidget and wobble about constantly. (4) Must mention EVERYTHING about astrophysic and astronomy: every second of dialogue was packed full of astronomy/astrophysics information but, more often than not, it had little relevance to the HST, how it worked or what it has been used for. I could go on but the memory of the damn thing is still too painful.... ...oh, and I'm none too keen on The Sky at Night anymore: Patrick Moore is a lovely old bloke but I honestly don't believe he does the world of astronomy any favours with his presenting style now. It worked to the masses 30 years ago and to the enthusiast 15 years ago, but it's just painfully dated now. Fire away with the flames!
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