Lily Allen gets 'social networking' TV show In news that makes us want to sob gently, some bright spark over at yoof TV channel BBC Three has decided to give faux-reggae pop strumpet Lily Allen a load of cash and her own TV show. Based on social networking. According to The Times, the groundbreaking broadcast will "pay homage" to MySpace and Facebook. "Viewers will be …
surely we can bring about the apocalypse in a quicker and less painfull way than this..?
and for some reason we all still pay licence fees so the beeb can produce shoddy crap like this, effectively taking money away from programmes like top gear, which means that they can't blow up more caravans and drive cars around that nobody can afford...
..who exactly? has she ever released anything on 78? no wonder I've never heard of her.
is she the one who did that hippy punk-rocker song that was never off the radio last year? not that i listen to popular music radio, I'm dyed-in-the-wool R3/R4, but if I was in a room that had Radio rubbish on or the kids had been fiddling with me ar radio, then that silly hippy punk-rock song would come on. I'm sure that as her.
Or is she that Amy Winelodge person? oh they're all the same to me, it's all the pops isn't it?
I like that Paris Hilton the best, funny how she's named after the hotels, isn't it?
Talk of ditching an entire channel, but throw the moolah at something that sounds like a cross between Charlotte Church's fiasco and any local commercial radio drive-time show.
It'll probably be repeated several times a week too, just in case we managed to find something worthwhile on the dwindling number of other channels the first time it was on, or (more likely) the stuff we watched instead the first time is also being repeated again at all the other times this is on. 'Dave', anyone?
It's enough to make you just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead... like do the dishes or cut the grass, or just stand in a field for an hour.
I have seen Lilly Allen in interviews, she comes across as quite intellegent and switched on, she is not a of the ilk of Jade Goody or Charlotte Church (Now that was a rubbish program). So I will be reserving judgement until I have seen it. Yes, the concept sounds like it will probably be gahstly but there are alreay many many things that are far worse.
...ritual humiliation show format shocker.
I blame the parents, of people whose families required the TV as aural wallpaper. For me, TV is a "thing you do", so I'd turn it on to watch what I want and then turn it in (if I haven't been hypnotised). The better half requires "audio wallpaper" even when she's playing WoW.
"..one of the hottest acts around"
The monotonic "singer" is only famous because of her father who admittedly is a reasonable actor. If this is the hottest act around, God help the entertainment industry.
It was bad enough that Ant and Dec (or is it Dec and Ant) ruled the Saturday evening airways but the whiny "important voice of her generation" will be unbearable.
Lily Allen is good value on TV and normally I'd be cautiously optimistic about her being given a show - cautiously because it's a lot harder to carry six or more episodes on your own rather than being on the wings for thirty minutes in Never Mind The Buzzcocks, but optimistic because she might pull it off. If professional "comedians" like Peter Serafinowicz and Ronni Ancona can produce stinking s**tbuckets of shows, no reason why a singer couldn't make a good one.
Unfortunately, she's been stuck with a format that is a complete loser. I simply cannot see how you can get a good show out of a free advert for Facebook - if they were taking the piss out of it it would have potential, but "homage" no. For once the "wah wah wah what about my licence fee oh that's right i don't pay it because I bittorrent all my episodes of Top Gear" crowd are right.
Mind you, when was the last time BBC3 had a good show that wasn't just a warm-up for a run on the real channels.
Monkey Dust is still being shown here in Australia - it's one of the rare moments of quality that graces our screens (along with all the other Pommie comedy imports). If it wasn't for those it wouldn't be worth owning a TV here.
Q. What's the difference between Australia and a petri dish?
A. You are far more likely to see a culture develop in a petri dish.
Yup, spiffing programme.
"Are we in Laaahndan yet?"
"Have you seen my shoe tree?"
And Re: decent BBC3 progs - I found The Smoking Room to be pretty funny. And I like the Mighty Boosh* too. Shame about the endless repeats of Two Pints and the 'Enders repeats on when there's nowt else on any other channel.
*Anyone who complains about the Boosh but has fond memories of Vic Reeves' Big Night Out is an ageing curmudgeon.
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