As ever, "It's all about the confidence", we hear. I am fully in support of Gok's intentions with this project, but the programme being offered up to viewers is disappointing in its format. Can Gok ever do a programme that isn't split into sections, so that we get shit recaps every time? 'No' is the simple answer. The programme style, format, content, and delivery is so, so so, so predictable! Of course we want to get rid of bullying, and support those who have been victims. However, there are people far more watchable than Gok to relay this stuff.
His 'preciousness' had a busy day in this week's programme. We saw him on the radio in the morning, with Fearne Cotton, before he set off on a completely pointless whirlwind tour, to deliver a handful of DVDs to schools. First Manchester, then Birmingham, then Bristol and finally Guildford. At each site, he landed in his helicopter, stood in a playground/field to hand over half a dozen discs, and then announced he had to dash. These are the fucking kids that were that very morning learning how to reduce emissions and save the planet. Perhaps Gok should have simply posted them first class ??? It would have saved a lot of fuel, money, damage to the environment from an unnecessary journey, and ten minutes of shit in the programme.
This is lazy television, painful to endure, and a disservice to the cause; it would be possible to achieve rather more, and a better televisual result, if there was some proper thought to the presentation, content, format and prioritisation. This should not be a programme that focuses on Gok, but unfortunately Gok's Teens is more about Gok than the Teens.
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