This weekend while going through YouTube to find various train films, I stumbled across this series from BBC, which apparently aired this past Summer. Six episodes, and I ended up watching all of them! To me it was thoroughly absorbing, and makes me wonder why there isn't an American counterpart! I would love to see an American version!
I love watching things like this, and love how the UK embraces the history of rail!
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Eddie Marra posted:This weekend while going through YouTube to find various train films, I stumbled across this series from BBC, which apparently aired this past Summer. Six episodes, and I ended up watching all of them! To me it was thoroughly absorbing, and makes me wonder why there isn't an American counterpart! I would love to see an American version!
Just my opinion but, the current "History Channel" has turned into "The Reality Channel", and thus is no longer interested in such in-depth "history" projects/programs such as the above BBC program.
Hot Water posted:Eddie Marra posted:This weekend while going through YouTube to find various train films, I stumbled across this series from BBC, which apparently aired this past Summer. Six episodes, and I ended up watching all of them! To me it was thoroughly absorbing, and makes me wonder why there isn't an American counterpart! I would love to see an American version!
Just my opinion but, the current "History Channel" has turned into "The Reality Channel", and thus is no longer interested in such in-depth "history" projects/programs such as the above BBC program.
I happen to agree with you. I even call the Food Network the "Playing With Food Network".
Things like the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, History Channel (which had an amazing series in "Trains Unlimited" a while ago) have all now gone the way of reality-based shows and away from actually educating viewers like this series did.
I learned so much in these 6 BBC episodes. More than some programs that are made here in the US!
Eddie Marra posted:This weekend while going through YouTube to find various train films, I stumbled across this series from BBC, which apparently aired this past Summer. Six episodes, and I ended up watching all of them! To me it was thoroughly absorbing, and makes me wonder why there isn't an American counterpart! I would love to see an American version!
I love watching things like this, and love how the UK embraces the history of rail!
Eddie, thanks to you, today I finished watching all 6 segments of the series. I enjoyed it much. Thank you.
Dan Weinhold
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