What we learnt from last night’s telly?
TV Food Programme’s Obesity Time Bomb:
Not the cream and the butter they use but the expanding waste line of their running time. Time was when cooking was a 10 min slot on Swap Shop or the local news programme (anyone remember Khalid Aziz on Look North?), you know Delia would make something grim with cheese and tomato while we all switched to see what was on Tiswas.
For along while the standard was half an hour, but now they have bloatedly risen to an hour like a cheap pappy bagel tasteless and hollow in the middle... you will say when you want me to stop the food metaphors won’t you). So we get two lots of celebs on Masterchef and a whole hour of the nutty Marco Pierre White talking to donkeys and worshipping rhubarb. It would be ok if this didn’t mean that they spend half the show telling what has happened or is going to happen and also having too bulk out the whole thing with strangely horrific close ups of Greg ”boudafull plate of food” Wallace eating puddings!
Who the Hywell is he?
Master Chef was pushing the celeb angle to its limit last night as a part from Claire Grogan who is a goddess not a mere celeb, Andy Peters “from Blue Peter” was the only one I readily recognized. Paul McGann was on but fell at the first hurdle; maybe he should have got some help from his French half brother... Renault McGann!
Thank you very much ladies and gentleman I’m here all week, be nice to your waitresses....
TV Food Programme’s Obesity Time Bomb:Not the cream and the butter they use but the expanding waste line of their running time. Time was when cooking was a 10 min slot on Swap Shop or the local news programme (anyone remember Khalid Aziz on Look North?), you know Delia would make something grim with cheese and tomato while we all switched to see what was on Tiswas.
For along while the standard was half an hour, but now they have bloatedly risen to an hour like a cheap pappy bagel tasteless and hollow in the middle... you will say when you want me to stop the food metaphors won’t you). So we get two lots of celebs on Masterchef and a whole hour of the nutty Marco Pierre White talking to donkeys and worshipping rhubarb. It would be ok if this didn’t mean that they spend half the show telling what has happened or is going to happen and also having too bulk out the whole thing with strangely horrific close ups of Greg ”boudafull plate of food” Wallace eating puddings!
Who the Hywell is he?
Master Chef was pushing the celeb angle to its limit last night as a part from Claire Grogan who is a goddess not a mere celeb, Andy Peters “from Blue Peter” was the only one I readily recognized. Paul McGann was on but fell at the first hurdle; maybe he should have got some help from his French half brother... Renault McGann!
Thank you very much ladies and gentleman I’m here all week, be nice to your waitresses....
3 comments:
i've still got that smash hits.
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How does that not surprise me do you ever throw anything away? ;)
Talking of Swap Shop (as you did briefly) I can still remember the phone number - 01 811 8055.
Unfortunately my brain went into meltdown when I was 11. Nothing else has stuck in there since.
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