Horizon: What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity?

I’ve been trawling the BBC channels at YouTube for stuff to put up at Watchification but it’s a pretty unsatisfying experience. As far as I can tell there are just clips from shows you’ve already seen (or would like to have seen) and trailers. Nothing special, nothing made for the platform (somebody will correct me if I’ve got that wrong).

I find myself feeling slightly resentful that I can get clips from excellent, licence-fee funded programming but not the shows themselves. The whole thing feels provisional and half-baked. I genuinely wonder what’s stopping the nation’s broadcaster from making the shows we pay for available to us (and to Johnny Foreigner for that matter) indefinitely.

I’m a big admirer of the scope and ambition of the corporation’s digital effort but it’s hard to read this as anything other than a failure of will somewhere up in the executive suite. And with Kangaroo’s commercial offer and 30-day catchup (whatever that is) just over the horizon things are unlikely to get much simpler any time soon.

Anyway, in the meantime, here’s a nice four-minute clip from a January Horizon about gravity that I missed.

Update: it’s worse. It looks you can’t even embed this stuff (”embedding disabled by request”, it says) so you’ll have to nip over there to watch this one.