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Poor vs Rich

The Bronze Age of Television

'If you're going to stare at that thing all day, at least watch something educational,,, like Japan,'

"I hate these 'fly-on-the-wall' type documentaries...they're nothing like real life...!"

"What do you suppose Ken Burns will have to say about all this in 30 years?"

"A programme about television sets being manufactured in sweatshops - I'll watch something else."

Obese Kids Documentary.

Brexit through the gift shop.

Directing a wildlife documentary.

'06 Graduation (The March of the Penguins).

"It's a documentary on how they make submarines."

'I'm sorry, but I'll have to eat you. . . they're filming a documentary.'

A fly on the wall documentary.

'Colin's attempts to convince friends that his 45' surround sound flatscreen TV was purely for nature documentaries was doomed to fail.'

Diana Inquest - 'It's time to move on, and start making a TV mini-series of her life.'

The case against Mike Moore.

'Do you want to be informed, entertained or infotained?'

'He was shown for 15 seconds on that National Geographic TV coverage last month...'

I just watched a documentary about the dangers of drinking and it petrified me. No more TV for me!

'We're doing a fly on the wall documentary.'

"This evolution show is a crock! There's no way we evolved."

"We keep it simple. That's our god of fertility."

"This looks good—a ninety-six-part documentary about everything."

Secret of the Great Television Executives

The Fevered Brow of Ken Burns

Cinéma Vérité

"While they're filming, just let everything get away."

Unreliable Narrator

"Just follow me around for a day with a camera. It would make a great reality TV show. ... I'm serious."

"Then one day, as I caught a tennis ball in midair, I asked myself, 'Is this all there is?'"

On the set with Errol Morris

"This is like the sinking if some really, really, really big ship."

"Shark week, shark week, shark week. It's always about shark week."

Birdwatchers watching a bird documentary.

Frozen Planet 2 - Price of heating unaffordable