WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ

[Ruskie]

I'm very surprised that Gurinder Chadha is being shown - we don't know who she is (do we?) - not a well known personality here.
I loved the Stephen Fry show. I also enjoyed Barbara Windsor and Jeremy Paxman. But of course, they are all fascinating. I did think that the John Hurt and Carol Vorderman episodes were a bit weaker for the reasons discussed at length on other threads.

I'm not sure of audience numbers for this programme as it's being shown on SBS. I hope it is successful.

[trish251]

I'm very surprised that Gurinder Chadha is being shown - we don't know who she is (do we?) - not a well known personality here.
I loved the Stephen Fry show. I also enjoyed Barbara Windsor and Jeremy Paxman. But of course, they are all fascinating. I did think that the John Hurt and Carol Vorderman episodes were a bit weaker for the reasons discussed at length on other threads.

I'm not sure of audience numbers for this programme as it's being shown on SBS. I hope it is successful.

It is also being shown in a non ratings period - so not sure who is counting the numbers    or do they count them all the time

Trish

[perth tiger]

i think they count them all the time. they just dont use them as official figures. top gear started off this way on sbs and is now shown in official rating periods. allthough saying that i dont think sbs figures will move much anyway they are so low

perth

[JAP]

It was a great doco.  And Stephen FRY himself such a delight - as he always is, despite any reservations one might have.

As for the rells who died in Auschwitz, how could he not be emotional.  When I think of people I've known or know who were in such camps (I remember a fellow Uni student who had her number tattoo-ed on her wrist) or whose ancestors died in such camps (ancestors of one of my dearest friends died in Theresienstadt) what can you do but weep.

Stephen FRY's description of careless anti-Semitism really cut to the bone.

I remember my own dear late mother, after she first met my then soon-to-be (now ex-) husband asking me (with a very doubtful tone in her voice) whether he was Jewish!  I was stunned (yes, I vaguely knew that many of my old school friends and Uni friends were Jewish but so what).  Why on earth would my dear un-prejudiced mother ask such a thing, I thought!  But I just answered 'no' - knowing that his family were Methodists from the way back (subsequently found to be also Presbyterian and Church of Ireland - and CofE before Wesleyanism).  I guess prejudice runs deep and unknown.  And who knows what any of us have in our very distant ancestry - though the ex's background (going way back) is English, Irish and Scots.  I guess curly dark hair and a large nose meant something to my poor mother ...  My daughter who has those two features (though everyone says she looks like me - yeah! I have fair hair and no nose to speak of) has often been asked in Europe whether she's Italian!  Prejudice and stereotypes, eh!

If DNA/mitochondrial research ever becomes definitive, I'm hoping that I might find that I have Tibetan ancestry!  Tibet and Ireland being the two places I've been where I really felt thoroughly at home!  Australia, of course, is my home - and the land I love, and where all my ancestors have been since the 1800s. 

On other threads, people have been critical of Stephen mocking his down-market English forebears' names of Florrie and Mabel and so on.  I can understand that; my English-born Gran (left there at age 3 for NZ and then on to Aus) Ada apparently desperately wanted me to be named after her.  What an escape, I've always felt!!  And yes, she had a sister called Florrie ...

I'm looking forward to Julie SAWALHA  on WDYTYA on SBS next week ...

JAP

[MarieC]

I missed it!!    'cos I was watching the ABC and I haven't figured out how to record on my relatively new DVD player!

A friend who saw it said she had the same reaction as you lot - it brought her to tears!

Trish, I agree.  Why do they show all these programmes in the silly season (non-ratings) and why do the ABC and SBS have such great problems clashing!  I was stuck on the ABC all night - apart from the Operatunity Oz followup, there was the final episode of "Jane Eyre" (excellent!) and "The Monastery" - all really good!

Next week, I WILL be watching!

MarieC

[JAP]

MarieC,

I sympathize!

I was battling away trying to get SBS to play through the video (the only way SBS comes through reasonably) when my daughter rang to say that the program was about to start and that, given my interest in genealogy, I might wish to watch (she'd watched it in London - no, no interest in genealogy, but likes Stephen Fry!).

Get off the phone, quoth I - but no, I still couldn't get the TV to work so watched the program in a glorious snowy totally blurred version   

I flicked over to Operatunity occasionally.  And then to Jane Eyre in a nice clear version 

I must work this out before next Sunday's WDYTYA episode.  Or record it and watch it later 

JAP 

[deeiluka]

I couldn't get SBS at all two weeks ago......had to call in the TV antenna man and get a new antenna.....just so I could watch it. 

Otherwise I would have been reading all about it and waiting for a friend to visit with a taped version.

The new antenna worked a treat!

I am sure that we are all going to be very sorry when the 12 weeks have passed by.

....dee

[trish251]

If it's really wet or windy I can't get SBS digital - Much as we want/need rain - we need fine Sunday nights for the next 12 weeks!!

Trish

[Ruskie]

Trish,

Your comments about it being a non ratings period hit me after I'd written my previous comment - and at 7pm there were 3 trashy American sitcoms on at the same time.

In the UK some of the best programmes and films are shown at this time of the year. It should be the same here!

I enjoyed Jane Eyre as well, but found my eyes constantly drawn to the actresses loose top lip .... probably just me ....