Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Badgers or bust

NATURE! Springwatch Nightshift, BBC2, 12.20am

For once, you can spend part of your summer staying up until an ungodly hour watching grainy footage of dumb animals stumbling around in the darkness. No, we're not talking about Big Brother (after all, who didn't see that setup coming a mile away?), but about something entirely wholesome and possibly even educational: Springwatch Nightshift.

We consulted Nurse Dunkley from the messageboards, who's a firm proponent of the show, to discover just what's so awesome about it. He advised us that "you should probably mention how strangely amazing it is to see fuckloads of badgers (at least 8!) wandering around and attacking the camera camouflage equipment", and to be perfectly honest we didn't need much more persuading than that. Unless of course it was eight Ruth Badgers randomly attacking the cameras, which would easily be the best thing ever shown on television ever. Also of note are the barn owls, specifically how "last week the older ones were eating the younger ones". We believe this was a storyline mooted for the proposed sixth series of Footballers' Wives, before its lamentable cancellation. This show is officially like all the good bits of other shows rolled into one.

Sadly we gather that we will not be treated to the sight of Bill Oddie in a sleeping bag, since apparently all of his bits are pre-recorded, but this may not be such a terrible thing after all. The website assures us that the show will feature "things that scurry through the night", and we haven't experienced that since the last time we went to G-A-Y, so that should be fun. Plus we quite fancy learning something, other than "wealthy posh girls are sometimes unwittingly racist", and Nurse Dunkley assures us that the show is highly educational, and easily better than actual school biology lessons, so there you go. Problem solved.

Labels: BBC2, nature, Springwatch Nightwatch, TV

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