17Oct

Panorama: Obama and the Pitbull: An American Tale

posted by Steve Bowbrick

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This is really remarkable TV. Self-confident, imaginative, visually fascinating. An example of what you get when you apply the BBC’s stock of extraordinary talent and insight (and all those connections) to a really important story. Matt Frei, the BBC’s top man in the USA, presents a useful survey of the strangeness and drama of the presidential battle in the USA.

If Panorama was rubbish or just irrelevant nobody would care if it went out in primetime or not. The trouble is that the BBC’s current affairs flagship is excellent—so everybody cares about it. And for that reason it must stay in primetime and it must continue to attract the budget and the resource that it always did. Hooray for Panorama!

Presenter: Matt Frey
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  1. Posted by beeker on Friday 17th October

    I loved this. One of the most visually fascinating bits was Obama’s fingers going up Palin’s nose in one of the montages.

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