For those of us who remember It's A Knockout, Total Wipeout is like its poor relation because the contestants don't get to wear ridiculous costumes and we don't get to hear Stuart Hall's laugh. The selling points comes, though, in the impossibility of the course (namely getting across the big red balls - honestly) and the fact it is made in Argentina. Both of these details lend the programme an air of mystery that has been sadly lacking on the BBC's Saturday night telly schedule.
Thankfully, Your Country Needs You has finally been put out of its and our misery after they found the winning entry for this year's Eurovision Song Contest. We always knew this would be a flawed project when they said the Lloyd Webber magic would stop us coming bottom. We didn't even need the nil point prediction from the patron saint of t.v. viewers everywhere (Harry Hill) because we got to see where Lloyd Webber was coming from when he went begging cap in hand to the 'tricky customer' Putin to ask him to secure more votes for Britain. I would never expect Lloyd Webber to match Jeremy Paxman, say, or even a Barbie doll, in political astuteness, but surely even he knows about Putin's record on human rights. Shame on you - what next, having tea with Mugabe to discuss the weather?
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