My tip? Bin the landfill shows
DO the BBC have a death wish?
With Netflix going from strength to strength, the Beeb’s big show of the week was, wait for it… Interior Design Masters.
Yeah, that’ll keep the opposition at bay!
Where are the big bold dramas, the must-see shows?
I told you about Bridgerton at Christmas.
It’s now the most watched series in Netflix history, with 80million viewers worldwide.
It has helped push the streaming service to 200m subscribers.
It’s also sent online searches for four-poster beds and sales of corsets through the roof.
And it has even encouraged various filth-hounds to email me asking where the “dirty bits” are. (Episodes five and six.) The only thing the BBC inspired us to Google last week was Myanmar. Ah,
Burma! And yes, of course Bridgerton is tosh, absolutely no use to anyone researching Regency England for a history A-level.
But the show has vim, joy, snobbery, romance and scandal – it is escapism pure and simple. Crucially, unlike most BBC dramas, it makes you want to see the next episode. The Beeb’s best current offering, The Serpent, just makes me want to press fast-forward. It’s a decent six-part saga pointlessly dragged out to eight episodes that jump about in time like a broken Tardis. Killer Charles Sobhraj is said to have been charismatic, but Tahar Rahim plays him as plain creepy.
Jenna Coleman’s Marie-Andrée Leclerc is gorgeous but gormless.
Most Corporation drama output consists of lacklustre medical soaps and formulaic cop shows.
True, Line Of Duty and Peaky Blinders are returning, but for their final outings. What have they got after that?
Am I being too hard? In fairness, this year the BBC did give us a real treat with Inside The Factory – a whole hour on yoghurt with Gregg Wallace.
That isn’t “landmark work”, Tim Davie. It’s landfill telly.
ZEROZEROZERO (SkyAt)… Rob Beckett’s voice-over, Celebs Go Dating: The Mansion… Sara Martins, right… The Investigation finale.
THE Drowning, left – do not resuscitate… Finding Alice – slack… GMB – God, Morgan is Boring.
THEY had sex up a ladder on Bridgerton. Mercifully the window cleaner was on a break. “I burn for you,” Daphne told Sexy Simon. See, they had cystitis even back then.