Nightly nightmare

AFTER Dermot and Davina, Gordon Ramsay takes over The Nightly Show tomorrow. It never rains but it pours, eh?

At least if the show haemorrhages any more viewers we can rely on gobby Gordon to give ITV bosses a bucket-load of abuse. Someone should. What is wrong with these people? What’s wrong with the executives who run our TV networks in general?

You’ve got ITV booking unfunny people to host a comedy chat show at £250k a week, the BBC serving up dramas we can’t hear and Channel 4 paying Sandi Toksvig £750k to front Bake Off.

Nice work if you can get it, sure, but way out of step with the demands of a job that basically entails: reading scripted intros off an autocue, chatting with contestants and shouting “Bake!” in daft voices. They’re giving Noel Fielding a quarter of a million to co-host.

Now Noel seems a likeable cove. But surely £250k would be better spent on paying him to make a new series of The Mighty Boosh?

It’d be a damn sight more entertaining than most of what passes for humour on TV these days. Yes, Live At The Apollo I do mean you.