• Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story - BBC Two

    From Ar@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 18 10:50:50 2024
    Last night (Sunday) was the first episode of this on BBC Two: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0024qc2/brawn-the-impossible-formula-1-story

    I am guessing it's brand new, the BBC website doesn't show any previous transmission dates. It's a four part documentary.

    It's hosted by / and some interviews by US film actor Keanu Reeves, but
    it's done very well, no stupid questions (so far), and he does not
    present it like a fan boy, but not like a stiff interviewer either.

    As a documentary, it's very interesting to see the Brawn GP story, even
    if you didn't support the team at the time (I didn't).

    It's worth a watch if you can catch it,

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  • From Carl Keehn@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 19 07:59:29 2024
    On 11/18/2024 5:32 PM, ~misfit~ wrote:
    On 19/11/2024 3:57 am, Mark wrote:
    Ar <Ar@127.0.0.1> wrote:
    Last night (Sunday) was the first episode of this on BBC Two:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0024qc2/brawn-the-impossible-
    formula-1-story

    I am guessing it's brand new, the BBC website doesn't show any previous
    transmission dates. It's a four part documentary.

    It's hosted by / and some interviews by US film actor Keanu Reeves, but
    it's done very well, no stupid questions (so far), and he does not
    present it like a fan boy, but not like a stiff interviewer either.

    As a documentary, it's very interesting to see the Brawn GP story, even
    if you didn't support the team at the time (I didn't).

    It's worth a watch if you can catch it,

    I think it's the first time on broadcast channels. It was made by
    Disney+ last year, so I guess they're starting to sell their original
    content on.

    Yep. I've known about it for a while now but haven't watched it as I
    figured 'just another US F1 propaganda thing' using Reeves' face and
    voice to get viewers. I might re-visit that decision, it's rated well on
    IMDB ('though IMDB ratings are largely US-centric). <https:// www.imdb.com/title/tt22297946/>

    Cheers,
    I did watch the first episode. So far it's very well done and
    entertaining. I played a game of "Spot the Star", it was wild to see a
    very young Lewis Hamilton and Bernie Ecclestone was still very present
    on the grid. A number of Mercedes technical people made an appearance.

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