Lock up your Wives and Daughters !!

[Butts]

Neil Oliver is back on TV (BBC 1 Great Explorers at moment...) on in E&W later in the week.

Seriously he is becoming quite an accomplished broadcaster starting on Coast and moving onto History of Scotland , Ancient Britain et al.

Another great BBC program !!

He's also sporting a beard for part of the show and still flicks his hair back in that manner that makes the ladies (and some gentlemen ) go weak at the knees.

Some Historians up here don't like him as technically he is an "Archaeologist old chap"

However I feel his presenting style is excellent very laid back and informative
and he displays a natural enthusiasm for his subject.

 

[newbie babs]

He's also sporting a beard for part of the show and still flicks his hair back in that manner that makes the ladies (and some gentlemen ) go weak at the knees.

Well Butts

Flicking hair and beards don't make me go weak at the knees or anywhere else.

But he is a very informative guy.

 

[Michael.Y]

"This.....is COOUST."

Much better than Nicholas Crane.

Also have a wee crush on red-headed Alice Roberts when she's on a beach.

 

[Madge Wildfire]

"This.....is COOUST."

Much better than Nicholas Crane.

Also have a wee crush on red-headed Alice Roberts when she's on a beach.

I must disagree.

Nick Crane actually has that old fashioned idea that a TV programme is more important than the presenter.

Unlike that Scotch bloke who seems to insist on appearing in every shot, even if it is a panoramic view of the highlands he will walk across the foreground.

He obviously cant abide voice overs because he would not appear in front of the camera reading a teleprompter.

Coast needed dumbing down, as with all BBC1 programmes which is why Nick Crane was muscled out - that and the money involved no doubt.

 

[Michael.Y]

Unlike that Scotch bloke who seems to insist on appearing in every shot, even if it is a panoramic view of the highlands he will walk across the foreground.

He obviously cant abide voice overs because he would not appear in front of the camera reading a teleprompter.

You have a very strange idea of how a TV programme is put together. The director, producers and researchers (literally) call the shots, the presenter just does what he is told, says what he is supposed to say etc. The Coast team are very knowledgable, sure, and will bring their own ideas to the soup, but at the end of the day they're just the window dressing for the product.

I've no idea what your second comment is meant to mean. He can't abide voice overs? He does them all the time. He would not appear in front of a camera reading a teleprompter? Er, outside of studio work and live on-location sports / events broadcasts, I don't know anyone who does that, least of all the Coast presenters, who must learn their lines like everyone else.

Not really sure what tree you're barking up.

 

[Hydro]

I've only intermittently tuned in to Coast, it's a fairly interesting programme mind. It does suffer from something I've noticed from most documentaries though, when you need a presenter out in the sticks or on location; it's not exactly a big deal but for some reason it does just really get on my nerves (what doesn't, mind?). After a presenter says their piece to camera, they then turn and wistfully look into middle distance at something indeterminate, or walk off as if they're going somewhere (sometimes with the camera following them). To me that makes it feel a bit stilted, as you know they're not actually looking at anything, or walking off somewhere. Two steps after the shot is cut, you know the director is saying "Right, that's lovely. You can come back now".

 

[SteveP29]

Also have a wee crush on red-headed Alice Roberts when she's on a beach.

Mmmmm, oh yes, even when she's not on the beach, she's still a really pretty lady!!

 

[BlythPower]

Neil Oliver is the Private Frazer of history:

There was a terrible, terrible stoorm and the ship ran agroond and they were all doomed, doomed ah tell ye!

 

[Butts]

Neil Oliver is the Private Frazer of history:

There was a terrible, terrible stoorm and the ship ran agroond and they were all doomed, doomed ah tell ye!

Well Nick Crane who fronts Coast again is aptly named - he looks like a bloody crane or stork or suchlike.