Well... I watched it and thought it was pretty good, all in all - we don't get Sky in the Blocks, but BFBS are repeating it a few days later.
It was kind of spooky watching the same trails and bund-lines that I walked along and took cover behind when we were there with 16 Air-Assault (3 Para Battlegroup) in the summer of 2006...
I don't have a problem with Ross telling the villagers the facts of life - everything he said was dead right in my opinion...the villagers all blame us for not providing security, but do nothing to help us oust the Taliban - in some cases they even steer us into ambushes - as happened with my team and some journos from the Sunday Times, accompanying a patrol from the Royal Irish... Stick it to 'em, I say...It's their country but they take no responsibility for anything that happens in it - it's always someone else's fault or problem...
As to a number of points here - Section Commanders do as they're told by the Company Commanders, COs etc. like it or not - if you've got 'embeds', tough...deal with it. As to Military Combat Camera Teams (CCTs), yes, they do come in all shapes and sizes, so bear in mind that it's a Tri-Service committment with RN and RAF personnel deploying as well as the Army. The Army only take applicants from Teeth Arms (i.e. the Infantry) so as to make us more deployable and less of a burden on host units - the RAF and RN have (some) fat lardy gits instead and it has been a problem deploying some of them to 'Hot' places in the past. In fairness, most blokes (and girls) don't join the Navy thinking that they'll be deployed to Southern Afghanistan...
As to the kit, it fares very well - we use Nikons without exception as they're literally battle-proven (in my case) - in Helmand it was occasionally +60C (yes, that's +60C...) and the cameras were too hot to touch with bare hands (I wore thin leather flying gloves!), but functioned faultlessly despite the heat and dust. I personally saw two Canons that died as a result of the conditions - one had all of its LCD screens go black, never to recover, the other one's seals failed and dust clogged up the works, rendering it inoperable. To be fair, even Nikon only guarantee the cameras will function up to +40C... I was a little worried that the cement holding the lens elements in place would hold in that heat - visions of my 70-200 having a lot of rattly glass lumps all piling to one end...lol
In May, my Brigade (7th Armoured - The Desert Rats) will deploy again to Iraq on Op TELIC XII, so watch out for photos from the COB of lots of blokes on 'Op BRONZE' (sunbathing!!!).