The Chase
The depths to which television 'entertainment' can sink to are truly astounding. Last week I endured a supposed 'celebrity' version of The Chase, featuring the irritating Ken Bruce, and the thick-as-pig-shit support trio of David Haye, Laila Morse and Paul Ince. Ken went for the £30,000 and was ejected by The Chaser, Anne Hegerty. Ince was also ejected, leaving two heavyweights (ref body weight) who proved to be lightweights on the intellectual scale. This pair managed to get through to the chase, and were given the opportunity to display a level of shite that has never before been seen on the programme. Their score was 7. That's 'SEVEN'. Seven fucking correct answers, when usually the final chase involves The Chaser attempting to get anywhere between 15 and 23 points. At one stage, Anne was asked a question which required her to state the primary colour associated with something, and her answer of 'RED' was incorrect. Laila Morse and David Haye looked non-plussed, and then she offered her alternative answer on behalf of the pair. I thought that with only two options available, the 50% chance of success would see them have a chance of clawing back a single point. However, Laila's answer (remember, a primary colour other than 'red' was needed) was 'BROWN' - wtf?
ITV.Be
On the one hand, it is a welcome development that ITV has created a new channel, because this has necessitated filling it up with programmes, and the process appears to have involved collecting all the complete shit and putting it in one place. The result is that I can choose to ignore for all time ITV.Be, and regain some small percentage of the sanity taken from my my the previous exposure to shit. The only downside of the mopping-up exercise is the mad level of promotion of this awful channel. The result of all the shit residing in one place is a beneficial one, as long as ITV starts very quickly to tone down its deluded view that we need to be told about the bollocks that the twats in charge have scooped up and put there!
BBC2 Desperation
Just as ITV has decided we need a supplement to the main programme, and has given us via ITV2 The Extra Factor, the BBC has decided that we are desperate enough to clamour for extra helpings. Thus, BBC2 serves us endless Bake Off helpings, whether it's the "Extra Slice" edition, or the milking of a concept via its "Masterclass" programmes. This is of course aside from actual repeats, which litter the corporation's output. BBC2 is also the home of "It Takes Two", the vehicle for Zoe Ball to annoy the fuck out of humanity with her garish style of presenting the tittle-tattle surrounding Strictly Come Dancing. We are now set to endure Dara O'Briain chatting to the week's cast-off from the Apprentice, with his "You're Fired" programme. I have no idea why it's become so fashionable to force extra programmes out of the dregs of the main one.
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