Dinosaur - with Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry is an intelligent , charismatic and interesting man, however, largely illiterate when it comes to science. This faecal fantasy (and a couple of other pop-science shows he's leant his gravitas to recently) show either he is being poorly advised by his agent and/or young husband or he has lost any sense of self reflection - if you hold a position of omniscience in the psyche of the public like Mr Fry you must be able to judge the veracity of what you're being asked to read as fact. Otherwise you're just misinforming the public as well as taking work away from qualified presenters innit. Do some documentaries on literature or philosophy or summit else you're qualified in Ste.

Most of what is in this show is very broad stroke and pretty uninteresting if you've read a book or been to a museum in the last 20 years. Some of is contradictory even within the same episode and some proposals are a real stretch (although in science all hypothesis are just that, I suppose) Thankfully there are a couple of reasonable experts (Dr S Maidment for example) who refer to the fossil record when answering the rather ignorant and childlike questions they've been compelled to address and who do make it clear theories are theories - even good ones - in their responses.

Basically avoid at all costs, unless you've a very small child who's not old enough to read but you need to distract for a few minutes, whilst you finish dinner/clean to loo/reply to emails.

As much as I like Steven Fry, this was atrocious and I only lasted 20 minutes. I had to rewind it when I heard a 'Dr' state that the Allosaurus weighed around 15 tonnes compared to the 30 tonnes of Diplodocus, despite moments earlier, Steven saying it was 1/5 of the size of a diplodocus . Most dinosaur fans would know that an Allosaurus was around 2 tonnes roughly, so 15 tonnes is miles off.

The CGI is horrendous and its badly written (ideal for primary school kids though) The melon scene was ridiculous also, whilst I appreciate the machinery replicating the dino bite, but was the victim a 30 tonne piece of fruit? Ofcourse not.

No idea how this has more than 1 stars... it is god awful, a lot of facts are wrong and misleading. They contradict them selfs a few times through out the show, you can easily tell they put very little effort into actually researching the facts of what they are talking about.

The CGI is so sloppy something I could forgive if they actually put effort into the information about the dinosaurs. The budget for this show must have been so little as it's so bad it's unreal. How does channel 5 put something out like this now, when in the past they had such a golden show which I still watch today, 'Prehistoric Park'

As a low-budget documentary, I can understand forgiving bad CGI, but using dinosaur models that are so vastly different from actual scientific facts is unacceptable. A documentary should have used accurate models of dinosaurs. This is not a documentary, it's just a fantasy film.

Not only are the terrible dinosaur models a problem, but the lack of authenticity is also woefully outdated and incorrect. This is a serious mistake for a documentary that should be providing accurate information. This documentary appears to create a lot of incorrect knowledge and misconceptions for the general public who may not know much about dinosaurs.

This is truly the worst documentary without a doubt.

WTAF? Kept my eldest up to watch it and within 5 minutes thought it was a weird comedy pastiche. Even my daughter said she could draw more convincing fireworks. The facts were rubbish, the interaction looked like it was from the 1970s and the CGI looked like it was a GCSE technology project.

Mr Stephen Fry - you're a national treasure Sir - this kind of s**t is utterly beneath you. Your name comes with a premium that Channel 5 clearly wanted to cash in on but nothing can paper over the meteorite sized cracks in this mess. It's the kind of cheap rubbish you'd expect from Channel 5 back in 1997.