Entry for March 30, 2007

I see the BBC is about to screen another of those programmes where people are auditioning for a part in a West End musical. This time they're looking for someone to fill the part of Joseph in Dreamcoat.
Great! Prime time telly is not now about watching a nice production; it is about watching wannabes who (except for one) aren't good enough to be in the show.
I am getting somewhat peeved about the number of programmes which seem to be about people who aren't very good at something trying to do that thing. For example, "Celebrities Who Can't Skate Prancing About on Skates". Here we are treated to "celebrities" who can't skate, learning to skate. There are many fancy lighting effects, but no setting of the stroboscope can disguise the fact that there were at least a dozen ten year olds who could do better down the local rink on a Saturday morning . I know; I remember enviously watching them as I clung to a Tunnocks Teacake hoarding as they flashed by skating backwards to the Average White Band.
Then we have "Celebrities Who Can't Sing Sing Badly For You". This is not entertainment. This is the telly realising that, instead of forking out some proper money for a real, live entertainer, they can get away with paying expenses to some fourth rate actress who used to have a part on Emmedale and a balding man who once slept with Princess Di.
Bring back Paul Daniels I say; bring back Seaside Special; bring back Jim Davidson.
No. Wait. On second thoughts, what time does that Dreamcoat thing start?enalpa