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JANUARY is almost over.this means you can soon return to the refrigerator during ad breaks. Bizarrely, the BBC, at its nanny best, decided to launch a new health show, Easy Ways To Live Well (BBC One, Wednesday), as we’re all blissfully giving up our new year resolutions.
It’s presented by Steph Mcgovern from BBC Breakfast and chef Hugh Fearnleywhittingstall, the BBC’S chief worrier about stuff. He confirmed this during the show when he confessed that he suffers from stress to Dr Zoe, the resident quack, who talks about the science bits.
Here’s my advice Hugh. Stop worrying. Turn down the next BBC show about the latest global catastrophe enveloping us all tomorrow, and go back to your nice, restful cookery programmes which we all enjoyed.you can have that for nothing. So when Auntie comes along and wants you to declare a war on plastic, or a war on waste, or a war on litterbugs on Swindon roundabouts, just say no.
Instead, pitch a show about the joys of being a carnivore to coincide with the end of Veganuary. Call it Carni... phwoar! One calledwar Onwoke wouldn’t hurt either.
It was clear that Hugh had some way to go on the path of de-stressing when he told Steph as they journeyed in their car: “I travel with carrots”. How rude.
They visited a doctors’ surgery where the staff were seriously hooked on chocolate and biscuits.why do NHS health staff have such bad habits? It sets a dreadful example, both in surgeries and hospitals, but maybe it’s the only way they get through it.
To combat cravings, we were told, you should eat or inhale peppermint.alas I couldn’t help thinking about inhaling a packet of After Eights.
Steph was stressy too.was the qualification for this show an ailment you could discuss? “I’ve massively let myself down with my gut health,” she told us.we shouldn’t laugh but I did.
I massively let myself down by watching this show which, at one hour, was at least 45 minutes too long.
When actors like Hugh Laurie, Rebecca Front and Josh Gad turn up in an HBO comedy written by Armando Ianucci, it is an appointment to view. Avenue 5 (Sky One, Wednesday) was a satire about Elon Musk’s business strategy – commercial passengers in space. That’s all very well, and there were a few jokes, but at only 28 minutes long, the TV had barely warmed up.why 28 minutes? Is that the new binge “snack”? Try again, it’s awful.
This was clearly a comedy-drama, due to its pace, not a sitcom. Or did I misread the whole thing?
It was set 40 years into the future when the spaceship was taking passengers to Saturn and back. Good lord, why? Have these people not heard about the Caribbean?
I was disappointed about the lack of a Brexit gag, too. I’m sure we will be closing in on an American trade deal by then and Vladimir Putin will have found a way to
ITV has lost control of Good Morning Britain Monday). Probably intentionally. Last week presenters Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid shouted at the camera about Harry and Meghan – the new Brexit – for almost two minutes but did not look at each other. A great new way of arguing, but who wants to wake up to it? The show has also been extended by half an hour which involves even more shouting at the camera from even more “commentators”. Take a break you guys, it’s exhausting. I’m off to for a doze.