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Old 30-09-2009, 07:29 AM
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Re: Autumnwatch on at a new time

I'm not overkeen on the format of either S/W or A/W, like a lot of programmes I find there is a bit too much emphasis on telling people what's coming up repeatedly, usually after every short segment.

If less time was spent telling the audience what's going to be shown, and more time spent actually showing it, on hour long slots there could probably be at least 10 more minutes of actual wildlife. By all means tell us at the start of a programme what's going to be in it, but most of us really don't need this repeated every 5 or 10 minutes.

Another bugbear of mine with S/W is when they show a montage of flowers, butterflies, dragonflies etc, without saying what species they are showing. It can't be too difficult to indicate on screen what they are showing.

I liked the format of the "Nature's Calendar" series that Chris Packham presented a couple of years ago, it would be nice if that could be brought back.
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