Patrick Moor is not happy with the scheduled programming for his 650th
edition of The Sky At Night.

In an era when the BBC has 24 hours of rather repetitive news on its
own channel -some of which (repeats of the best bits every half an
hour) spill over into free to air / terrestrial channels every morning
until the "ooh look at me I am pushing my new political ideal
accountancy practice programme film book insert word here show" at 6
am.

And when the powers that be there, spend a small fortune on rather poor
computer aided graphics.

And have to send their weather presenters out in the rain because they
are in the dark about meteorology.

And who knows how much is being spent on its web servers?

It seems a pity to me too that the BBC is incapable of recognising
diamonds from dust.

I must admit that I have never found the scheduling of the programme to
be suited to me. I doubt very much it ever has. That is because the BBC
is loaded with the sort of British Management that made us famous.

It did the same to the now defunct gem: Weatherview.

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Patrick Moor is not happy with the scheduled programming for his 650th
edition of The Sky At Night.

Its Moore, not Moor.

Reading the rest of your post I'm left thinking, do you have a point to
make?

This is the BBC's page about it...

BBC NEWS | UK | The Sky at Night enters 50th year

"Sir Patrick Moore is to present the 650th episode of BBC One's
astronomy programme The Sky at Night, nearly 50 years after the show
first aired."

The rest here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6238447.stm

On 7 Jan 2007 01:03:43 -0800, "
wrote:

This is the BBC's page about it...

BBC NEWS | UK | The Sky at Night enters 50th year

"Sir Patrick Moore is to present the 650th episode of BBC One's
astronomy programme The Sky at Night, nearly 50 years after the show
first aired."

The rest here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6238447.stm

Whoever put that article together doesn't quite understand the correct
use of the comma.


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Reading the rest of your post I'm left thinking, do you have a point to
make?

I can't see one and the only useful bit of information was missing.
Namely the time and date of transmission which is BBC One 0155 GMT,
Monday 8 January followed by WeatherView.

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This is the BBC's page about it...

BBC NEWS | UK | The Sky at Night enters 50th year

"Sir Patrick Moore is to present the 650th episode of BBC One's
astronomy programme The Sky at Night, nearly 50 years after the show
first aired."

The rest here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6238447.stm


Sir Patrick has just been interviewed on BBC News 24 and is NOT a happy
camper. As he pointed out the dopey woman controller forgot last months show
altogether (how on earth do you manage that) which is why it went out a week
late.

Here's why I think the BBC doesn't really care about the Sky at Night any
longer

1. It's presented by an old man (not very "youff" friendly) who has some
very un BBC like political views

2. The BBC is run by left wing liberal arts graduates who can't stand
science for the most part (unless it's Global Warming of course)

3. Astronomy is seen by the BBC as being a mostly white, male, middle class
hetrosexual interest.

None of the above may be true of course, (just my suspicion) but note the
BBC are pushing a news series on food, whcih is being presented by some BBC
news reader dolly bird and going out at 9pm on BBC 2. No 3am there then.

Perhaps if Sir P did a Sky at Night on "Lesbianism in Astronomy" or "Buggery
and the Telescope" it might even get a kids slot.

I've often wondered why Sir P hasn't looked at doing a monthly show for say
the Discovery Channel or even Channel 5, who do the excellent Gadget Show?

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This is the BBC's page about it...

BBC NEWS | UK | The Sky at Night enters 50th year

"Sir Patrick Moore is to present the 650th episode of BBC One's
astronomy programme The Sky at Night, nearly 50 years after the show
first aired."

The rest here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6238447.stm


Sir Patrick has just been interviewed on BBC News 24 and is NOT a happy
camper. As he pointed out the dopey woman controller forgot last months show
altogether (how on earth do you manage that) which is why it went out a week
late.

Here's why I think the BBC doesn't really care about the Sky at Night any
longer

1. It's presented by an old man (not very "youff" friendly) who has some
very un BBC like political views

2. The BBC is run by left wing liberal arts graduates who can't stand
science for the most part (unless it's Global Warming of course)

And here's me thinking it was run by homos and the Church of England.

3. Astronomy is seen by the BBC as being a mostly white, male, middle class
hetrosexual interest.

None of the above may be true of course, (just my suspicion) but note the
BBC are pushing a news series on food, whcih is being presented by some BBC
news reader dolly bird and going out at 9pm on BBC 2. No 3am there then.

Perhaps if Sir P did a Sky at Night on "Lesbianism in Astronomy" or "Buggery
and the Telescope" it might even get a kids slot.

I imagine there is a kink bugger in there somewhere who gets a kick out
of seeing the weather girls freezing their bits off.

I've often wondered why Sir P hasn't looked at doing a monthly show for say
the Discovery Channel or even Channel 5, who do the excellent Gadget Show?

He's one of the old school. C'mon, it's taken him 650 episodes for him
to realise the BBC isn't what it was.

If it ever was.

"Billy No Mates" wrote in message
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This is the BBC's page about it...

BBC NEWS | UK | The Sky at Night enters 50th year

"Sir Patrick Moore is to present the 650th episode of BBC One's
astronomy programme The Sky at Night, nearly 50 years after the show
first aired."

The rest here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6238447.stm


Sir Patrick has just been interviewed on BBC News 24 and is NOT a happy
camper. As he pointed out the dopey woman controller forgot last months
show altogether (how on earth do you manage that) which is why it went out
a week late.

Here's why I think the BBC doesn't really care about the Sky at Night any
longer

1. It's presented by an old man (not very "youff" friendly) who has some
very un BBC like political views

2. The BBC is run by left wing liberal arts graduates who can't stand
science for the most part (unless it's Global Warming of course)

3. Astronomy is seen by the BBC as being a mostly white, male, middle
class hetrosexual interest.

None of the above may be true of course, (just my suspicion) but note the
BBC are pushing a news series on food, whcih is being presented by some
BBC news reader dolly bird and going out at 9pm on BBC 2. No 3am there
then.

Perhaps if Sir P did a Sky at Night on "Lesbianism in Astronomy" or
"Buggery and the Telescope" it might even get a kids slot.

I've often wondered why Sir P hasn't looked at doing a monthly show for
say the Discovery Channel or even Channel 5, who do the excellent Gadget
Show?


Spot on Billy the BBC has become a quagmire of unlikely bedfellows. Social
Marxist (white self loathing middle classes) Ethnic self interest groups and
sexual minorities who verge on the deviant. A sort of commie feudal group of
shirtlifters. Now I have been deliberately crude and harsh with my choice of
words only because that's the truth as I see it and many others apparently.

The once objectivity of the BBC is now marred by the self-interest
self-hating with their political ideology all financed by the license fee.

I would finally say I have no truck with any of the aforementioned groups
only that they selfishly try and impose their view of the world on the rest.
I don't want kids to see gay kissing on a soap I don't want kids to see any
kind of (as that dick head richard Curtis calls it )snogging on mainstream
TV. It's totally inappropriate and unnecessary; and that's just scratching
the surface.

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This is the BBC's page about it...

BBC NEWS | UK | The Sky at Night enters 50th year

"Sir Patrick Moore is to present the 650th episode of BBC One's
astronomy programme The Sky at Night, nearly 50 years after the show
first aired."

The rest here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6238447.stm


Sir Patrick has just been interviewed on BBC News 24 and is NOT a happy
camper. As he pointed out the dopey woman controller forgot last months
show altogether (how on earth do you manage that) which is why it went
out a week late.

Here's why I think the BBC doesn't really care about the Sky at Night any
longer

1. It's presented by an old man (not very "youff" friendly) who has some
very un BBC like political views

2. The BBC is run by left wing liberal arts graduates who can't stand
science for the most part (unless it's Global Warming of course)

3. Astronomy is seen by the BBC as being a mostly white, male, middle
class hetrosexual interest.

None of the above may be true of course, (just my suspicion) but note the
BBC are pushing a news series on food, whcih is being presented by some
BBC news reader dolly bird and going out at 9pm on BBC 2. No 3am there
then.

Perhaps if Sir P did a Sky at Night on "Lesbianism in Astronomy" or
"Buggery and the Telescope" it might even get a kids slot.

I've often wondered why Sir P hasn't looked at doing a monthly show for
say the Discovery Channel or even Channel 5, who do the excellent Gadget
Show?


Spot on Billy the BBC has become a quagmire of unlikely bedfellows.
Social Marxist (white self loathing middle classes) Ethnic self interest
groups and sexual minorities who verge on the deviant. A sort of commie
feudal group of shirtlifters. Now I have been deliberately crude and harsh
with my choice of words only because that's the truth as I see it and
many others apparently.

The once objectivity of the BBC is now marred by the self-interest
self-hating with their political ideology all financed by the license fee.

I would finally say I have no truck with any of the aforementioned groups
only that they selfishly try and impose their view of the world on the
rest. I don't want kids to see gay kissing on a soap I don't want kids to
see any kind of (as that dick head richard Curtis calls it )snogging on
mainstream TV. It's totally inappropriate and unnecessary; and that's just
scratching the surface.


And don't forget the animal sex either :-)

Heather Cooper has just been on BBC News 24 emptying a bucket full onto the
BBC as well. She made some very good points about putting more science on
mainstream TV. However, "Celebrity Dogging" is more up the BBC's passage
these days.

Apparently Sir Patrick has written a personal appology to Piers Sellars.
Decent chap.