Watched the first episode of this series on Sunday night. Stephen Fry is a most entertaining and agreeable travel companion and his journey through the New England states was both enjoyable and informative. My one teeny tiny gripe is that each activity, interview or other item along the way was so short. I know the modern trend in all TV from dramas to documentaries is to keep things moving along at a rate, assuming an audience with the attention span of a gnat. But when the content is so interesting and the pictures so great, I would have liked him to dwell a little longer on each exploit. The interview with Sting in New York, for example, was so short it was hardly worth bothering.
Knowing that Stephen is such a technophile (he’s doing some great twitters on his current trip to Kenya), I was expecting to see a page on the BBC site with clips not seen in the broadcast. Haven’t found anything yet.
A minor criticism. Nothing to get upset about. I will be watching next Sunday.
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