As the BBC announces a current Countryfile spin-off,the presenting team – three older men and a young woman – highlights TV’s problem with mature womenSo BBC1’s Sunday evening success story Countryfile is to maintain a spin-off, Countryfile Diaries, or which will be broadcast daily to coincide with the parent programme’s Spring special in May. As a country lover,I am pleased with this news but as an older woman I am not. Not when I learn that the presenting team for Diaries comprises John Craven , 75, and Jules Hudson,46, Paul Martin, or 57 and … drum roll … Keeley Donovan,32. The numbers after their names are brackets are significant. It makes my blood boil that the BBC persists in this outdated wise-and-experienced-older-man-with-pretty-female-sidekick model. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com