Geller on BBC Learning!?!?

[Garvarn]

Ahem, I'm experiencing something truly horrible right now. I've just seen a half our broadcast of a Uri Geller "documentary" in which we are let in to his beautiful mansion in England, his archive in the basement, we accompany him to three or four soccer games - which outcomes he has predicted - and doing some spoon bending in the VIP room. It's Uri's show; he holds the microphone, he sets the rules...

Now, I don't mind him doing that. But here's the horror: it's on the BBC Learning Channel!!! What have I missed here? This is BBC! And if you seek knowledge on the BBC - this is what you get?!

Oh, and right after Geller there is half an hour about poltergeists...

[thaiboxerken]

It's a sad trend.. but science and learning channels are looking for more viewers and turn to this nonsense to get ratings up.

[Garvarn]

So, there is a price on objectivity and integrity... I think I prefer whores to intellectual prostitutes.

[Interesting Ian]

Originally posted by Chateaubriand
Ahem, I'm experiencing something truly horrible right now. I've just seen a half our broadcast of a Uri Geller "documentary" in which we are let in to his beautiful mansion in England, his archive in the basement, we accompany him to three or four soccer games - which outcomes he has predicted - and doing some spoon bending in the VIP room. It's Uri's show; he holds the microphone, he sets the rules...

Now, I don't mind him doing that. But here's the horror: it's on the BBC Learning Channel!!! What have I missed here? This is BBC! And if you seek knowledge on the BBC - this is what you get?!

Oh, and right after Geller there is half an hour about poltergeists...

You don't find alleged poltergeist phenomena interesting?

[geni]

Someone in the BBC must belive this stuff. The next step is to find out who it is.

As for the football matches they wouldn't happen to invole a certian club that Geller was a director of....

[Garvarn]

Nope, but the mind that perceives it - or the mind that gives the perception airtime on a learning channel - should be interesting to medical science...

[Garvarn]

Geni, I think the club was Reading... Ring a bell?

[geni]

Originally posted by Chateaubriand
Geni, I think the club was Reading... Ring a bell?

Ah. So not the one who got religated from the 3rd division. Mearly the one that Geller won't go anywhere near for safty reasons (Reading fans seem to have long memories).

[Garvarn]

Well, he got to meet the players, and apparently had access 'backstage'... Claimed he could guide the ball with his powers. Even spread some crystals on the floor above the locker-room. Scary...