The Americas with Simon Reeve

Simon has that non threatening way about him a la Louis Theroux (the comparison to whom I'm sure he hates) but he gets about the America's cross long beautiful scenery and gets deep into the varying ways of life on the way. From extremes of wealth, weather, politics it has everything.

I'm a big fan of British travel shows of the tradition started by Michael Palin. This is not one like that. Instead of Michael's in-depth, objective look at the geography, politics and culture, Simon Reeve pushes endlessly the narrative of "climate change", going a step further to iterate over and over that "the U.S. is to blame." That the climate is changing is not in question, it is. The causes are intertwined, global and complex. Instead of an upbeat story of beauty and culture at risk, and the heroic efforts - and there are many - of what people are doing about it in the Americas, Reeve teases with scenes of natural beauty but in the end leaves the viewer feeling depressed and powerless.

Probably one of the best documentary tv shows I've seen and I've seen alot, very educational and Simon Reeve is brilliant, a great narrator and journalist who is very easy to listen too. Fantastic show.

The problem I have with any Simon Reeve program is that he never stops talking. It's an hour of trying to experience the place Simon is visiting with a constant background noise of Simon chattering. And often he talks about things he can't be bothered to show us, so the only visuals are Simon talking in a car while he talks about poverty or climate change or whatever he read about online over breakfast. So people he meets are essentially reduced to sound bites, so that they won't interfere with Simon's talking time. So it's more of a podcast than a visual experience. So it's poorly made television with a mediocre host. He is the antithesis to "Don't tell it. Show it". Simon's programs are best watched with the volume off.

All about Simon Reeves full stop. Like many of these so called factual programmrs it is just a vehicle for Simon Reeves to show his face as often as possible. Just count how much of the footage has his face on camera..... Pretty well continuous.

His campaign is 99 percent negative and not useful in any way and is repetitive to the point of boredom.

Another irritating point is that he misses much of the best parts of the areas he visits scooting onto his next destination and then spending a huge amount of showing footage of drug issues that we all know are a worldwide issue but made to look uniquely Canadian

Rubbish.