Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:35 am
#1789042
The only things left worth watching on the BBC are foreign buy-ins like The Last Wave - James Delingpole
This BBC Four fantasy drama has pretty French girls, surfing, superpowers and hardly any political correctness
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... with the French, it’s a case of bof — we cannot begin the action without some amuse-gueules: a typical French teenage girl being bolshie and riding off crossly on her moped; a typical French lefty masseur shagging his clients; a typical French beach bar where a man with old-fashioned, rural French facial hair is drinking something French, etc.
I love all this. It’s almost as good as being on holiday in France. In fact, it reminds me a lot of the lovely few days I spent somewhere similar a couple of years ago with the Goves, eating croissants, taking bracing dips in the choppy sea, remembering to say ‘Bonjour monsieur, madame’ on entering theboulangerie. French TV, I get the impression, does not yet suffer from the tragic affliction you find with British TV — the BBC especially — whereby to depict anything like the real England as it really still is, is considered somehow unprogressive and potentially racist.
Rob P
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the ... 7d4abab799
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