Music On TV - Documentaries/Live Performances

Five have been running a "The Singer and the Songs" series in which they look at three songs from each act that were supposedly pivotal to their careers (which was kinda true in the Madonna one, and absolute crap in the Celine Dion one).

They showed the Metallica one on 5Select to catch people out (the songs were "One" "Enter Sandman" and I think "St Anger").

Sky Arts - Sat 12.12 20 - 19.00 - Kings Of Leon : Live At The O2

Neil Brand's BBC 4 series about Music in TV is worth a look.

Only seen the first ep about TV themes.
Some predictable things (Dr Who, Z Cars) and some odd ones (The Persuaders? - I couldn't have picked that out of a line-up of 60s spy/action caper themes. The Prisoner - yes. But The Persuaders ? You'd put that ahead of "Mission Impossible" ? Nah !)

(16-10-2020 18:55 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  Sky Art
22.00 - White Riot - Film about the Rock Against Racism movement, formed in 1976, by a group of artists taking on the National Front.

Belatedly caught up with this. Shocking footage of the times. Even more shocking, no Don Letts.

Sky Arts have a new Coldplay doc tonight at 9.

(12-12-2020 00:37 )M-L-L Wrote:  Neil Brand's BBC 4 series about Music in TV is worth a look.

Only seen the first ep about TV themes.

Last night's edition was about the jingle and next week it's about TV scores.

The production values are apparently higher than we're used to. Actual proper interviews with the actual composer demonstrating how he actually does it on the actual computer in front of you.
It's disconcerting too that there's not an advert break every seven and a half minutes and that the first five minutes of the subsequent part of the programme isn't taken up with repeating what has gone before in case the viewer had somehow forgotten all of it.
Neither was it BBC centric. Pointless jingles were referred to but so were those on other stations and next week Game Of Thrones will feature.

I didn't watch it all because of HIGNFY but it'll stand repeated viewing. When it's sold to the likes of Yesterday it'll be interesting to see how it's edited.

Just watched this new Bee Gees documentry on Sky bloody amazing it was

(12-12-2020 10:31 )Chrisst Wrote:  Last night's edition was about the jingle and next week it's about TV scores.

Wasn't so convinced by either of these to be honest. Again, felt like an uneasy compromise between things that British people would recognise but US viewers wouldn't and vice versa.

I mean, the Miaow Miaow cat food advert ? Was that even shown in the UK ?
Ditto things like For Mash Get Smash and Shake n Vac I seriously doubt US would have a clue about.

TV scores, I admit my attention wandered a lot in this. A surfeit of David Attenborough progammes, stuff about the Sopranos, and Game Of Thrones ?

I mean is Game of Thrones even old enough for people to assess if people will be humming its theme tune 30 years from now ? Folks like me that don't bother with Sky or Netflix have never seen an episode in our lives, and have no wish to.

(20-12-2020 01:47 )M-L-L Wrote:  Folks like me ... have never seen an episode in our lives, and have no wish to.

Good man

Channel 4/More 4 decided to have a marathon repeat of some series from 1970 about Beethoven, what with this year being the big anniversary. Why the hell they decided to sit on the archive all year and then screen it in one big go baffles me

I watched the scores programme and it was the least of the three editions I thought.
TBH some of that might be because I don't follow all those American series and I contend that background music is too prominent during most programmes.
Nonetheless I did think that the series benefitted from higher production values than many and that Neil Brand's live demonstrations on the piano was central to that.

(14-12-2020 00:08 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Just watched this new Bee Gees documentry on Sky bloody amazing it was

Caught up with this, fairly impressive I felt. The bits cannibalised from previous docs seemed to be the most informative. The whole "disco sucks" bit shows how far America has come in 40 years, i.e. not very far at all