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BBC To Ditch "Tomorrow's World"

Posted by Hemos on from the replacing-the-past-with-tomorrow dept.

Pipsicola writes "The BBC news site reports their decision to ditch the Popular science show, Tomorrows World , after 30 years. It may not have had the most bleeding edge content (we often dubbed it 'Yesterdays World' ...), but it was one of the few programmes which fired the imagination of young British nerds. Several generations of Britain's scientists and technologists grew up watching TM. Lets hope the BBC fulfills its promise to replace it with more science-based shows using a different format. Which formats have worked in other countries I wonder?"

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  1. new formats by -strix- · · Score: 5, Funny

    they should try hosting the show naked.

    nudity can make anything better.

    1. Re:new formats by liquidice5 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I dont know...

      If it is the same Tommorrow's World that is on TechTV, then we dont need to see TM hosted naked

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      Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking - H.L. Mencken
  2. Replacement: I vote for Bill Nye the Science Guy by dagg · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's he doing now-a-days? I always thought he was cool. Maybe it's just his name? His show must of had quite a budget to do some of the stuff that he did. I think it was owned by Disney.

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  3. Re:40, not 30 years. by 56 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Me: My favorite color is black. People like you: Black isn't a color, it's a shade.

    Give it a rest man.

  4. The best episode.. by Doomrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    The best one was on April 1st one year where they asked you to vote for something by touching your television screen.

    I touched Phillipa.

  5. Re:Daily Planet by Da+Masta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well the new chick is much hotter.

    And besides, its hillarious watching her interview the male researchers and seeng their responses vary from just gazing at her to stuttering to going completely gaga.

  6. Re:The decline of Tomorrow's World by Yarn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Adam Hart-Davis was better (you get the idea that there is some cerebral activity going on in there), but I find his style of delivery patronising. It's as if he pictures his audience as a room-full of mildly retarded twelve-year-olds.

    Well, he does lecture at Cambridge..

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    -Yarn - Rio Karma: Excellent