David Lister: BBC prefers showbiz over substance
Saturday, 6 December 2008
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Here's tonight's schedule for BBC4. At 8pm there's a repeat of BBC1's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A couple of hours after that is a showing of the next Wallander just a day before it is on BBC1. I guess someone gets paid for cutting-edge arts programming like that. To be fair, it is cutting edge compared with tomorrow evening, where at 8pm there is a profile of Nana Mouskouri followed at 9pm by a concert by Nana Mouskouri, climaxing at 10pm with another concert by Nana Mouskouri.
The BBC makes much of its breezy arts magazine programme The Culture Show, and this week's was enjoyable enough, even if presenters Lauren Laverne (pictured), Mark Kermode and Andrew Graham-Dixon can occasionally be a little too pleased with each other in their constant chats. Are there no other experts that can occasionally be found for the interviewee's chair? Is Nana Mouskouri not in town?
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