Dara O Briain and Prof Brian Cox returned to our screens on BBC2 on 16th January for three nights. This time topics included, the Moon, Black Holes and even Aliens!
Guests included a live interview with Lunar Astronaut Eugene Cernan, impressionist John Culshaw, comedian John Bishop, Dr Lucie Green and even Patrick Moore made an appearance, although his was pre-recorded. Reporters were Mark Thompson from Norwich Astronomicsl Society who was out and about in the UK and Liz Bonin who was at the South Africa Large Telescope (SALT).
After each of the episodes there was an additional episode which essentially was a cosy chat amongst the hosts with an audience from an astronomy society standing behind them. A similar format to Top Gear. In fact there were one or two people in the audience standing at the back that I recognise from Astronomy conventions.
Best moment was Brian Cox giving away the answers that Patrick was asking, I dont think he could help himself as comes across very passionate about the subject. I also was very impressed with John Bishop who actually asked pertinent questions which wasn't from of point of view of taking the mickey out of the subject. Astronomy is becoming cool after all!
Overall I found the format and topics better than last year. I also liked the extra episodes. It certainly generated at lot of interest from the public at my local astronomical society during open evenings
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