But that isn’t all. The format IHMO for this type of show (including CIN) was dead even 10 years ago. Right now it’s festering away in the corner, almost in a zombified state.

I’m wondering if this show will keep on doing a ‘noel’s house party’ (thinking of the last few episodes) and keep on coming back worse and worse before somone does the decent thing and kills it.

ljones

This has become truly controlled tv – the old days when a group of factory workers turned up with a big cardboard cheque that they’d raised are gone ( partly thanks to Gervaise turning that into a sign of the saddo ). Now the public are kept resolutely off-screen so that the luvvies, the media giants and the singer-songwriter-coverv-ersion “celebrities” can all intermingle, slap themselves on the back and avoid being answerable to anyone more pointed than David Mitchell.

30 years ago Jerry Lewis kept his career on life-support doing this sort of thing until people could no longer stand the hypocrisy. Hopefully for some of this lot, notably Ross trying to rebuild his career and public image after his income details leaked, the same will happen.

I still remember the 1st comic relief with J Ross, L Henry & G R Jones as the presenters for the whole night. It was chaotic, it was (seemingly) unscripted & it was fun.

But as the above article states this has all become very po faced, hard to tell comic relief from children in need.

Shame