Billy No Mates wrote:

wrote in message
ps.com...
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.

This month's episode is called "The Sounds of the Stars". I thought that
was last month's programme.

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

But at least they put it out.Can you see ITV1 transmitting it?

--

Immunity is better than innoculation.

Peter

But at least they put it out.Can you see ITV1 transmitting it?

--

Immunity is better than innoculation.

Peter

Only if they offer a £50,000 prize for the first person that rings in and
can spell the word "Moon"

On Jan 7, 1:35 pm, "Lawrence Jenkins" wrote:

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.- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -

With the number of bees in your bonnet you could now usefully
purchase a hive though I can't see its inhabitants producing much in
the way of honey. Bile, maybe, if bees have gall bladders, that is.
Other excreta are of course another possibility. Fain would I be so
explicit.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Jim Smith wrote:

Ah - hadn't spotted that. I don't see Weatherlawyer's posts anyway.

And with that little bombshell I must leave my caving-in world for that
of the land of nod.

I have no doubt that I shall retire to an unfulfilled sleep -if I can
sleep at all.

And all because I ate too many sausages.

Tudor Hughes wrote:

Fain would I be so explicit.

Fain?

Peter Hayes wrote:

But at least they put it out.Can you see ITV1 transmitting it?

No.

And more to the point I can't see the BBC doing so either. When would
it be on the ITV then? I imagine it would get a longer slot than the
BBC gives it as they would have 5 minutes of commercials if they put it
on at peak time.

Ian Evans wrote:
Maybe some of the posters on this thread should take a moment to climb down
off their own particular high horse and have a look at the TV schedule. Sky
at Night is on 4 times this week. Tomorrow morning on BBC 1, tomorrow night
at 19:30 on BBC4, Tuesday morning at 02:45 on BBC4 and Saturday at 12:30.
The BBC4 version is ten minutes longer.
I would agree that the BBC science coverage has been well below what I would
want it be, although it is far better than any of the other terrestrial
channels. I'm not quite sure how many of the comments about the BBC have
anything to do with the scheduling of the Sky at Night. I'm pretty sure that
gender and sex issues are low on the list of priorities when deciding when
we should see Sir Patrick.

Ian



I couldn't agree more. Like it or not astronomy is a minority interest,
I think with the schedule above most poeple who were interested would
be able to find the time to watch it (even those who are 'out
shopping').

Its not ideal but at least we have a regualr astronomy program, things
could be worse....

"Gaz" wrote in message
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I couldn't agree more. Like it or not astronomy is a minority interest,
I think with the schedule above most poeple who were interested would
be able to find the time to watch it (even those who are 'out
shopping').

Its not ideal but at least we have a regualr astronomy program, things
could be worse....

And an exceptionally long running one with a famous and venerable
presenter. *Everybody* has heard of The Sky at Night, even if most
of them have probably never actually seen it.

Things could indeed be worse. There is no such programme dealing with
the weather. So for those from the astronomy group, be thankful for
what you've got
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

Weatherlawyer wrote:


Tudor Hughes wrote:

Fain would I be so explicit.

Fain?

Glad or joyful.

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell

In uk.sci.astronomy Weatherlawyer wrote:

I'll be at work on Monday morning and probably out shopping like the
rest of Britain on Saturday at about 12:30. Do people actually watch
BBC 4?

As with every other channel, if there's something interesting on BBC4
then it gets recorded for later perusal.

I gave up watching television during broadcast time some years ago.
There are simply too many advantages in recording programmes to watch
when I feel like watching them. One of those advantages is that I don't
care when a programme is broadcast. Indeed it is an advantage if it's
broadcast at a time when it won't clash with other programmes of
interest because I only have five recording devices.

The most major advantage is that I can skip through adverts. of course
this shouldn't apply on BBC channels. However they have a habit of
filling in a lot of guff and advertsing in between programmes and so for
a programme ostensibly lasting half an hour, I'll probably save myself 5
or 6 minutes. On advertising channels, one hour of programming can be
watched in something between 43 and 47 minutes.

Of course I'll probably only spend the time saved by watching yet another
series of CSI...

FoFP