{"id":982,"date":"2008-05-31T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T08:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2008-05-31T15:29:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T14:29:03","slug":"the-death-of-tv-reviewing-an-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/05\/the-death-of-tv-reviewing-an-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"The death of TV reviewing: an explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Television\"<\/p>\n

W<\/span>hy is TV reviewing dying on its knees? The Daily Telegraph<\/strong><\/em> has just bid farewell<\/a> to its TV reviewer. Is television no longer worthy of criticism? Buzz. Dumb question.<\/p>\n

What actually has happened is that reviewing has been bypassed altogether. Take Channel 5’s Strangelove: Married to the Eiffel Tower<\/em>*, a programme which featured women who claimed to be married to – yes – the Eiffel Tower and the Berlin Wall.<\/p>\n

24 May: The Independent<\/em><\/strong> has a piece<\/a> from the documentary-maker.<\/p>\n

27 May: The Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/strong> carries a sober news account of just one of the women – Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer. No link to her website<\/a> though.<\/p>\n

27 May: The Sun<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (‘cemented’ the relationship, brick-teasers etc.) carries a less sober account. The Mirror<\/em><\/a><\/strong> moralises, invoking Sex And The City<\/em>.<\/p>\n

28 May: It makes China Daily<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guardian<\/strong><\/em> readers might have come across Berliner-Mauer before in Adrian Searle’s account<\/a> of the Berlin Biennial, where she is the subject of a film<\/a> by artist Lars Laumann<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Berliner-Mauer turns out to be something of a self-publicist. Back in 1997, as plain old Eija-Riitta Eklof, she was featured in the Independent<\/em> for her love of guillotines<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But her own efforts were as nothing compared to a bit of pre-programme publicity re-packaged and syndicated. The programme airs in the UK on 4 June. Reviewing by then will feel a little late…<\/p>\n

*Produced by Blink Films, the company set up by former Channel 5 director of programmes Dan Chambers. Small world, telly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why is TV reviewing dying on its knees? The Daily Telegraph has just bid farewell to its TV reviewer. Is television no longer worthy of criticism? Buzz. Dumb question. What actually has happened is that reviewing has been bypassed altogether. Take Channel 5’s Strangelove: Married to the Eiffel Tower*, a programme which featured women who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}