New Prof Brian Cox programme

[AstroNebulee]

Just saw this advertised on the telly, looks real good and about time the beeb put more astro related programming in the schedule 

"BBC Two - Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wnk5

 

Edited May 21, 2021 by AstroNebulee

[Hertford Stargazer]

Thanks for the heads up, I'm a little concerned just how much of the content will be recycled from previous programs though. Nice to have something to watch all the same 👍

"Brian Cox tackles some of the most challenging and intriguing questions facing science today by using his best material from past programmes and the latest scientific research."

[AstroNebulee]

1 hour ago, Hertford Stargazer said:

Thanks for the heads up, I'm a little concerned just how much of the content will be recycled from previous programs though. Nice to have something to watch all the same 👍

"Brian Cox tackles some of the most challenging and intriguing questions facing science today by using his best material from past programmes and the latest scientific research."

No problems, as long as the beeb are showing a bit more interest in the astro world, we can all be a little thankful for that 👍

[Alien 13]

I will watch it even if it was about a freshly painted wall drying...

Alan

Edited May 21, 2021 by Alien 13

[Chris]

Thanks for the heads up! I was listening to Brian Cox's infinite Monkey cage podcast the other day, and was thinking he hadn't done anything with the BBC for a while. Glad I was wrong 

[niallk]

Great - I really like his programmes - they are very well made imho.

[AstroNebulee]

2 minutes ago, Chris said:

Thanks for the heads up! I was listening to Brian Cox's infinite Monkey cage podcast the other day, and was thinking he hadn't done anything with the BBC for a while. Glad I was wrong 

Glad to be of service Chris, yes he's done plenty of the infinite monkey cage programmes, but glad he got a new 4 part series, top work 👍

[JamesF]

They're also repeating one of his other series at the moment I think.  Human Universe?

James

[Charles Kirk]

One or more of his series are available pretty much continuously on BBC iPlayer.

Not quite sure that I see the point of a compilation other than the impossibility of shooting a new series around the world in a pandemic.

Only Attenborough gets more repeats!

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

Time to practice my Brian Cox look into camera provoking thought from the viewer followed by a gentle but firm turn of the head to the right tilted up at a distant cosmic object contemplating existance while the soundtrack reaches a crescendo look... (Breathes).

 

[Hallingskies]

2 hours ago, ScouseSpaceCadet said:

Time to practice my Brian Cox look into camera provoking thought from the viewer followed by a gentle but firm turn of the head to the right tilted up at a distant cosmic object contemplating existance while the soundtrack reaches a crescendo look... (Breathes).

 

Prof. Cox always reminds me of that Paul Whitehouse character from the Fast Show who used to stroll through random backgrounds while babbling on about how “BRILLIANT” things are.  

Edited May 22, 2021 by Hallingskies

[saac]

1 hour ago, ScouseSpaceCadet said:

Time to practice my Brian Cox look into camera provoking thought from the viewer followed by a gentle but firm turn of the head to the right tilted up at a distant cosmic object contemplating existance while the soundtrack reaches a crescendo look... (Breathes).

 

It won't be as good as the way Brian does it  

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

1 hour ago, saac said:

It won't be as good as the way Brian does it  

Don't get me wrong, I love Cox. My impression is simply paying homage...

Hopefully during his Liverpool arena visit I'll get the chance to ask what moisturiser he uses.

[Starwatcher2001]

Saw him live in Newcastle in 2017 on one of his tours. He opened up with a comment about how amazed he was that 9,000 Geordies had turned out to to see a lecture on physics on a Saturday night. That's what it's about.

[Mark-V]

Just set the sky box to record it !

[JamesF]

9 minutes ago, Mark-V said:

Just set the sky box to record it !

Yup, set things up to record the series earlier today myself.

James

[Stardaze]

Thanks for the ‘heads up’ just added the series just in case.

[DaveS]

It'll be on iPlayer soon enough.

[JamesF]

One day I might have sufficient bandwidth that iPlayer becomes usable   If I miss something I want to watch that's on iPlayer I usually end up downloading the entire thing overnight at the weekend.

Still, Openreach have promised me fibre to the nearest telegraph pole by September.  Not that I believe it will happen by then, but I live in hope.

James

[Basementboy]

Anyone catch this? I thought it was good – a snappy flip back through some of the best bits of his previous programmes, updated to reflect the latest scientific understanding of what he was talking about back then. I find him much less annoying than I did 10 years ago, too, so that bit at least has changed   

[AstroNebulee]

I enjoyed it as there were some pieces I had seen before from past series, very informative and quite fresh also, I'm looking forward to the next one. 

Edited June 4, 2021 by AstroNebulee

[Hallingskies]

Here’s Prof Cox in action. Or is it?  I can never tell these two apart...

 

[JamesF]

Just watching it now.

I love the quote that at no time in the last twenty years has every single living human actually been on Earth.

James

[skyhog]

36 minutes ago, JamesF said:

Just watching it now.

I love the quote that at no time in the last twenty years has every single living human actually been on Earth.

James

I'm recording this to watch, does that statement refer to the fact that the ISS has been manned for that length of time? 

[JamesF]

It does, yes.

James