Bad Television - 'It's All Women's Fault'

sky news ^ | 5-8-2007 | Staff Writer

[bedolido]

Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore thinks TV is worse than it used to be - because the BBC is run by women. The presenter of The Sky At Night also belittled female newsreaders in an interview with the Radio Times, describing them as "these jokey women".

Sir Patrick, 84, criticised the BBC for showing interesting programmes late at night, especially the 650th edition of The Sky At Night, which went out at 2am

Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore

[Oberon]

Yikes! Is that an astronomer, or a planet?

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Bad Television - 'It's All Women's Fault'

The trick, Sir Patrick, is keeping the remote control away from them!

[bedolido]

warning: while walking around him you may get caught in his gravitational pull and continue in an everlasting orbit.

[Oberon]

I’ll say. Escape velocity is probably on the order of 15 mph. Run, do not walk!

[MarineBrat]

When asked about his TV "guilty pleasure", he said: "I used to watch Doctor Who and Star Trek, but they went PC - making women commanders, that kind of thing. I stopped watching."

Sounds about right, though I'm not sure I'd watch the old Dr. Who today. I will on occasion watch the original Star Trek, and occasionally STTNG.

BTW, women can make great commanders, and I don't think this guy's beef is with women per se, rather, I think it's with the paradigm shift that must occur to male-only entities when they become co-ed.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Television distracts the astronomer from his other hobby: shifting the orbit of Jupiter with his own gravity.

[Oberon]

Give him a ball and a mitt, and he can play catch with himself. It’s called “Orbit Ball.”

[theFIRMbss]

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There's enough guy there for two astronomers! But I do like his books.

[windcliff]

ping

[Duke Nukum]

True story: The biggest surprise of my life happened when I found myself being followed about by the planet Democratus:

It's one thing to be followed home by a stray puppy dog or a lost and hungry kitten, but an entire planet?

This fellow is the spitting image!

[SunkenCiv]

Well, daytime TV is indeed a vast wasteland, watched only by unsupervised children and people who are chronologically adult but never grew up mentally.

and it is going to get worse.

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[John123]

I knew it!!!

I have always maintained that the non-stop showing of chick flicks on the Lifetime channel is NOT a good thing...

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