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25 responses to “BBC – BBC THREE – Fantasy Education.”
She’s my mate too, y’know!
Lol – and mine – until i discover if she said anything rude about me that is!!!!
Waiting to see whether it features my mate Merry too! 😉
Quote of the program so far “both families have dreams and ideas, neither family has so far done anything about them”. !!!
Surely not….how about ‘Merry is already living the dream’….
Very very strange programme me thinks.
…though I have enjoyed the soundtrack…. a nice bit of scissor sisters at the moment.
They hadn’t said that by 20.12 Chris, that’s why I said “so far” 😉
Definitely overtaken by some comment about Merry’s fantasy set up. Wish I’d blogged it as it was said. Even more I wish that the video worked so that I could have taped it so that the Big could have seen it tomorrow.
“We took her to see a family already living the dream.”
Nah, at the end of it, there was something about Merry’s dream fantasy setup that had me in stitches…
Haven’t watched it yet, I’ll listen carefully. I could stick a copy on DVD for you (or forward the tape copy once I’m done with it
Oh, Chris, that would be fab – dvd preferably as the video doesn’t work. Big will be thrilled to see her friends on tv!
I think as a piece of television it was rather flawed though pleasing to see Katy personally get such a big thumbs up at the end. In this context ‘Fantasy’ to me means something that is the creation of fancy, in other words something unachievable within the normal run of things. In the Fretwell’s case, this was clearly so, they didn’t have the money. In the Berisford’s it seemed a perfectly realistic option – more of an ‘ideal’ education than fantasy, iyswim.
So one family had obstacles, the other didn’t really seem to have any (I am not saying there aren’t). Hardly suprising that the family without obstacles were seen as more likely to achieve their fantasy, it being actually non-fantasy. To me it would have been ‘fairer’ if the Fretwell’s were actually loaded, or the Berisfords had to make some major sacrifice from their current position.
That’s me critiquing the programme/format only, I should add. Mr Fretwell is clearly tosser, Katie clearly not.
….what I mean really is that the obstacles were not comparable in terms of the final judgement.
Actually we did have that conversation while they were here. The producer bloke said “Ideal” was more like it.
I don’t seem to be able to quite make the point I am trying too…..I suppose there wasn’t the equivalent question or choice to ‘would you take a part-time job you didn’t like to fund the private education.’ This kind of weakened the premise of the programme which seem to be about the ‘experts’ deciding who was most likely to suceed. I think the programme would have worked better without the competition element which seemed kind of irrelevant.
Well yes. Though they did set her up with a nappy quota.
I think the programme format was a C+ at best, however Katy and Becca an A*. With all those materials etc they didn’t actualy show much home ed, whereas lots of school ed. I think they should have given the fulford girl a chance at a local and hopefully more affordable school if they ever hoped to make it realistic. Isn’t Becca a cutie though [a position reinforced by melrose]. they missed out the kitchen challenge though!!
Inclined to agree with above really. If you took away the fact that we know Katy and Becca, and the fact we agree with HE then the programme itself was not actually very good. However, it was certainly no bad press for HE and if it serves to highlight it as an option (and the bold type, mainly accurate stuff along the screen about it may well help) then hurrah for it anyway!
Just drop me line with your snail mail address Jax, i’ll try and sort them out over the next couple of days.
Guess who missed the bloomin’ thing. GRRRR!
I was thinking more about this last night. While i agree that it wasn’t quite comparable, if you take into consideration the “making a tv show” thing, what changed it was also attitude. I think if they had given the other couple a “make 20 nappies” challenge, they’d have faltered at that too – Katy just didn’t falter at the challenges.
Was a bit daft though, the food eating thing was stupid.
Still, probably worth it for the Sonlight PreK stuff, and all the rest of the materials, eh? I bet the Beeb thought they’d got away lightly getting all that for Katy, wonder how much the week of school cost!
I bet the school week cost them nowt, rather good publicity for them.
Merry, it was interesting they didn’t make a challenge *just* to the mother, in Katy’s case all the challenges were to her (on screen at least).
ROFL at you all! and I agree with you all, it was an odd bit of TV! Tim did have 3 challenges, keep the kitchen clean (a-hem… yes, well), “teach” 2 9yo girls how to use Meccano without getting hands on (which was obviously flawed as we are a hands on sorta family) and he took Becca to a drama club with the intention of her having a bit part but the crew didn’t listen to either Tim or our friend Jane (the one who accused me of being organised!) and pushed it a bit far so she refused to join in after all.
Wish they had shown a bit more of Becca being clever though….
Chris F could I have a copy on DVD of the programme – I totally missed it as I was still up in Edinburgh at a friends house.