Our Daily Bread
World, 8pm
So, I was wrong. A couple of weeks ago I asked, with irony, who in Hong Kong would sit and watch a TV show about bread and invited readers to express their views about this programme. Of those who wrote in - all four of them - one commented: 'At least it doesn't sound like 'advotainment' - these fashion and 'style' shows that make me vomit together with the food, cookery and wine show.' Another wrote: 'I for one most certainly do want to watch a programme about bread . . . and a series in fact. Maybe it's because I lament the lack of REAL bread in Hong Kong . . . but have you ever tried that white muck at a Chinese bakers? So if I can't get what I want here, then I can at least look at it - thanks to the TV series.'
The third reader thought the programme was very interesting and 'not as ethnocentric as I feared. I look forward to the rest of the programme. I hope it will be followed by 13-week programmes on rice, sweet potato, spices, etc'. And the sender of the final e-mail said he had missed the first episode of the series and had no idea if this series would be worth it, but 'doesn't bread have universal interest? It is a staple in various forms for a lot of the world: Europe, Asia, Middle East as well as North and South America. As an important part of their life and culture for many (as is rice, meat etc) it is going to attract interest, and would sound a winner to me'.
Some of you obviously liked the pilot episode and will be tuning into tonight's episode, which will feature all you have always wanted to know about sandwiches but were afraid to ask.
Superhuman
Pearl, 8.30pm