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Ron.M
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Tonight's "Holiday" program was featuring so called "action" Holidays (as opposed to lying by the pool, drinking Cubalibres), and one of the items on the bill was Flamenco Dance lessons in Sevilla.
I badgered my wife and daughter to watch, and after looking at surfing, jet-skiing, cooking and diving Holidays for half an hour, it finally came to the Flamenco part... Hooray!
For about thirty seconds they showed 2 learners and an instructor in a dance studio with no guitar, doing a couple of steps, with the camera focussing close up all the time at the male dance instructor's slim waist and bulging crotch LOL!... then launched into what the "Disco" nightlife of Sevilla has to offer, and how cheap the drinks are.
All the time (including the Flamenco part), they kept cutting to a guy playing drums and another guy playing electric guitar, playing Hip Hop dance music with the presenter going on about how all the action happens after midnight.
No Flamenco music whatsoever..... Not even the usual BBC's Gypsy King's clips.
Cheers BBC....
Very good and informative programme!
How much is your Producer getting paid? (At Public expense.)
(Also, isn't it amazing that they can't make any science programmes these days without heavy beat backing music and state of the art computer graphics and some idiot disclosing the amazing fact that the earth goes around the Sun, in a profound manner, like he's hoping to be chosen for the next John Geilgud prize for Dramatic Art?)
Does everybody have to be spoon fed nowadays?
When I was in the States a long time ago, the used to call Television "The Boob Tube".
It's definitely reached that level here.
Just had to get that off my chest....
LOL!
Ron
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Only teasing I agree with you really.