I don’t believe in gatekeeping History. I absolutely think public historians are historians. But I don’t think that breathlessly ‘adventurous’ content creators specialising in historical ‘brand partnerships’ are ‘historians’. (If you know you know. And you’re more likely to know if you watch BBC1.)
These days I only watch the BBC when there is a sporting event I can’t get otherwise.
‘Family viewing’ when your household includes grandparents and an eleven-year-old makes many demands! ;-)
Argh. Sympathy.
No idea. Tonight was Would I Lie To You, a programme about working at heights and The One Show. Not sure I want to watch those to find out, especially the last one.
It was on catch-up. Destination X.
Just watched the first one. Doubt I’ll get to the end.
My family seem to like it. I think it’s quite a good concept poorly executed… The ‘historian’ appears after a couple of episodes.
I like the quiz element but the “game playing” aspect bores me. I never watched The Traitors at all.
I want to like the quiz element, but it’s very badly done. All the clues are either blindingly obvious or far too hard.
I had no idea for episode 1 as there were so many red herrings. Haven’t got to the end of the second one but Matterhorn?
Yeah, that one was too obvious.
That’s it exactly. How are you supposed to distinguish red herrings from clues? And the latest one (I think the fourth?) was ludicrously easy.
Oh well, at least she still has her Mensa buddies.