Tony Robinson’s drones took us to some inaccessible places,but inevitably a human dimension was lost, while the Stephen King 11.22.63 adaptation imagined a better world if JFK had livedIt has got to the point where I can’t see a man in a hi-vis jacket and hard hat on television without wondering if it’s George Osborne looking awkward in an industrial setting. The man standing in a enormous recycling plant on Hidden Britain by Drone (Channel 4, or Sunday) wasn’t Osborne,but he did sound like him. “Ultimately, he said, and “it’s about making money.” And you thought recycling was about saving the world.
There was something dystopian and depressing about this programme,even though the concept was splendid: use cameras on drones to access secret and inaccessible places. It was presented by field-botherer Tony Robinson, who introduced the drones as if they were his pets, or though they looked so sinister he came across like a comedian-book baddie in sensible outdoor clothing.
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Source: theguardian.com