Dinosaurs and TV go hand-in-hand - 'thetvreviewguy' blames Steven Spielberg for most of the Hoop-lah. Before 'Jurassic Park', dinosaur-mania wasn't quite as fevered. ‘Horizon - Dinosaurs: the Hunt for Life’ (BBC2) looked at our wiped out ancestors (again), through the eyes of Dr Mary Schweitzer, a smart, and to this dinosaur of a reviewer, hottie of a scientist who says she is this close to extracting DNA from a dinosaur fossil. She does a lot of her field-work in Montana, and the viewer was spared none of that State's beauty and wildness – but was spared from the crazy part of the population that lives there. Dr Shweitzer has pioneered work looking at the biology of dinosaurs rather than focusing purely on the palaeontology. We followed her on her trip to the Gobi dessert and heard why she believes dinos and birds have more in common than you might think. These sort of programmes can make 'thetvreviewguy' feel quite inadequate about his career, which doesn't involve looking for T Rex Fossils or work-travel to Mongolia. This 'Horizon' was a lot more hit than miss but perhaps in looking to centre the narrative exclusively on the doubtless excellent work of Dr Schweitzer, the programme makers missed an opportunity to give a more rounded presentation of all the latest research in the dinosaur world. Chewy though.
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