Just when you thought ITV had run away with the prize of TV Turkey of 2013 with the inexplicable Your Face Sounds Familiar, the BBC have fought back with their own Saturday night dud. The celebrity panel show for Ukip fanatics - I Love My Country.
Its opening episode tonight was 50 minutes of TV vomit that left an almighty stench. I Love My Country? I Love My Sick Bucket would be more appropriate.
At least you get the sense with Your Face Sounds Familiar that everyone involved knows it's trash and is wallowing in its sheer awfulness. Bobby Davro just looks chuffed to be back on primetime TV, even if does mean dressing up as Tammy Wynette.
However, I Love My Country is such a dizzying mess, a patchwork of dreadful TV pitches combined into one ball of mucky mush that everyone involved looks utterly bewildered.
Gabby Logan, Frank Skinner and...
Its opening episode tonight was 50 minutes of TV vomit that left an almighty stench. I Love My Country? I Love My Sick Bucket would be more appropriate.
At least you get the sense with Your Face Sounds Familiar that everyone involved knows it's trash and is wallowing in its sheer awfulness. Bobby Davro just looks chuffed to be back on primetime TV, even if does mean dressing up as Tammy Wynette.
However, I Love My Country is such a dizzying mess, a patchwork of dreadful TV pitches combined into one ball of mucky mush that everyone involved looks utterly bewildered.
Gabby Logan, Frank Skinner and...
- 8/3/2013
- Digital Spy
BBC One controller Danny Cohen has defended flop BBC One gameshow Don't Scare The Hare. Cohen admitted that the Jason Bradbury-fronted teatime series "didn't work", but claimed that it was right for the broadcaster to take risks on "creative and innovative ideas". "Some [shows] will work and some won't. You have to be prepared to fail," he said at the Edinburgh TV Festival. "It didn't quite catch (more)...
- 8/28/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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