"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 11:17:04 on
Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Recliner remarked:

I don't know if this programme is new to UK TV or a repeat, and even
if it is new, whether any of the content will be new to denizens of
this group, but Channel 5 has a documentary entitled "Building The
London Underground" at 8pm this Wednesday. It's described as, "A
fascinating look at the great engineering leaps that built the London
Underground, the biggest metro system in the world." The picture used
is certainly up-to-date:
http://www.channel5.com/shows/big-bi...on-underground

It's not possible to tell from the blurb about this programme but I
have a sneaking suspicion that is actually a Discovery channel show.
It does have some recent footage if it is the programme I think it is.
I'll say no more to avoid spoiling it for others.

Yes, that's what I suspected. Channel 5 doesn't make its own
programmes, and this isn't the sort of thing it's likely to commission
under Desmond's ownership, so a second-hand Discovery programme seems
the likely origin. Anyway, I've not seen it before, so will watch it
and hope for the best.

That's number 3 in a series. Number 6 is about TGVs (others are about
non-rail projects). Is C5 showing he whole series?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big,_Bi...s_3_.282011.29
http://www.windfallfilms.com/show/19...-Series-3.aspx

ps I haven't watched it yet - what is the $26bn expansion, 30 new stations
etc?
--
Roland Perry

It hopelessly confuses the Crossrail and the TfL systems. A lot of banging
and crashing "music" and voice-of-doom commentary. I suppose that they are
using "London Underground" in a generic sense.

PA

It hopelessly confuses the Crossrail and the TfL systems. *A lot of banging
and crashing "music" and voice-of-doom commentary. *I suppose that they are
using "London Underground" in a generic sense.


I watched the first and got fed up, it’s very shall we say
‘introductory level’.

Nothing wrong with that but I would imagine most here would have heard
it all before.

It’s a program aimed at the kind of normal that probably believes
trains have steering wheels.

allantracy wrote:
It's a program aimed at the kind of normal that probably believes
trains have steering wheels.


Aimed at people like Richard Branson, then. ;-)

allantracy writes:

It hopelessly confuses the Crossrail and the TfL systems. *A lot of banging
and crashing "music" and voice-of-doom commentary. *I suppose that they are
using "London Underground" in a generic sense.


I watched the first and got fed up, it.s very shall we say
.introductory level..

Nothing wrong with that but I would imagine most here would have heard
it all before.

I hadn't heard before how they built the Paris Metro stations as boxes
above ground and then sank them into the squidgy soil...

(S)

On Jul 14, 2:58*pm, allantracy wrote:
It hopelessly confuses the Crossrail and the TfL systems. *A lot of banging
and crashing "music" and voice-of-doom commentary. *I suppose that they are
using "London Underground" in a generic sense.

I watched the first and got fed up, it’s very shall we say
‘introductory level’.

Nothing wrong with that but I would imagine most here would have heard
it all before.

It’s a program aimed at the kind of normal that probably believes
trains have steering wheels.

IMHO, not a good program. It was simplistic tothose with some
knowledge of the subject. It was misleading to those without. The
graphics were not bad.

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:36:37 -0700 (PDT), 77002
wrote:

On Jul 14, 2:58*pm, allantracy wrote:
It hopelessly confuses the Crossrail and the TfL systems. *A lot of banging
and crashing "music" and voice-of-doom commentary. *I suppose that they are
using "London Underground" in a generic sense.

I watched the first and got fed up, it’s very shall we say
‘introductory level’.

Nothing wrong with that but I would imagine most here would have heard
it all before.

It’s a program aimed at the kind of normal that probably believes
trains have steering wheels.

IMHO, not a good program. It was simplistic tothose with some
knowledge of the subject. It was misleading to those without. The
graphics were not bad.

It looked like it was intended for the US market, for which it would
presumably be regarded as rather high brow?

Recliner wrote:

It looked like it was intended for the US market, for which it would
presumably be regarded as rather high brow?

The credits showed that funding was provided by the History Channel - one of the
US A&E cable programming providers. As to high brow - I'm not sure. This is the
same company that produces Ice Road Truckers.

On Jul 16, 2:01*pm, Robert Neville wrote:
Recliner wrote:
It looked like it was intended for the US market, for which it would
presumably be regarded as rather high brow?

The credits showed that funding was provided by the History Channel - one of the
US A&E cable programming providers. As to high brow - I'm not sure. This is the
same company that produces Ice Road Truckers.

The poster "Recliner" is clearly not familiar PBS (US Public
Broadcastor) Output. Now their documentaries *are* highbrow. PBS
news output is presented with the decorum and dignity that the BBC
lost many years back.

In article ,
(Owen Dunn) wrote:

allantracy writes:

It hopelessly confuses the Crossrail and the TfL systems. *A lot of
banging and crashing "music" and voice-of-doom commentary. *I suppose
that they are using "London Underground" in a generic sense.

I watched the first and got fed up, it.s very shall we say
.introductory level..

Nothing wrong with that but I would imagine most here would have heard
it all before.

I hadn't heard before how they built the Paris Metro stations as boxes
above ground and then sank them into the squidgy soil...

Only to get under the Seine, surely?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 18:32:46
on Mon, 16 Jul 2012, remarked:

I hadn't heard before how they built the Paris Metro stations as boxes
above ground and then sank them into the squidgy soil...

Only to get under the Seine, surely?

In Seine, as we say.
--
Roland Perry