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Originally Posted by jacqui  I'm not entirely sure that all of Springwatch/Autumnwatch's content is suitable for young children anyway, it has never, to my knowledge been targeted at a childrens audience. Surely educating young children about the wonders of nature should be a parents job, not a televisions? |
I agree. While I did like the old format where the presenters were out in a location and it was a nice hour's viewing of an evening (let's face it, not a lot else is on that is worth watching) I have no complaints about the new format either.
This is probably going to get me flamed by the parents here but I'll jump in and say it anyway: so what if children can't watch it because it is on late? Why is there a desire to make everything 'family friendly' anyway? It makes a pleasant change when programmes, such as Autumnwatch/Springwatch
don't sanitise what happens in case little Johnny or Katie is upset. Seeing dead stags (as shown on Autumnwatch on Friday) would indicate that this is possibly unsuitable for younger kids to be watching.
Maybe kids are more inspired by getting out and seeing and doing stuff for themselves, rather than have it put in front of them on the idiot lantern? I have two nephews, aged 6 (I think!) and 8 and I know that they aren't the slightest bit interested in factual programmes on tv, but show them birds, animals, insects, the stars, etc in reality and they are very interested.