Star Carr’s back in style
DO YOU remember Interior Design Masters, the show where aspiring creative types go head-to-head, hoping to knock the judges’ socks off, win a prestigious, big-money contract and, fingers crossed, quit the day job?
You don’t? Oh, well, never mind, you were probably watching Holby. The only reason I mention it, other than the fact it’s back on our screens tonight for a new run (BBC Two, 8pm) and there are worse ways of whiling away an hour, is that it’s had its title tweaked.
Series one, with Fearne Cotton, was billed simply as Interior
Design Masters. But series two, with Alan Carr, is going out as INTERIOR DESIGN MASTERS WITH ALAN CARR.
Read into that what you will, but to me it’s implying that Alan’s arrival is a big deal. It also suggests the producers didn’t bother to consult my wife before doing this, because my wife would have told them she finds Alan Carr rather annoying, meaning they’d have had to reconsider.
To be fair to the poor chap (I’m fine with him – it’s her, not me), he looks keen to give us top value for our licence fee as he takes on this new job, adding a comic flourish to a format that can feel a bit over-earnest. It’s much the same tactic the BBC have applied to The Great British Sewing Bee and Great British Menu, hiring a funnyperson to take over as host and hoping this will make it, well, funnier, I guess.Assuming laughs are what we want from sewing, cooking and home decor.
Meanwhile, ITV have decided
the best person to host JOANNA LUMLEY’S HOME SWEET HOME –TRAVELS IN MY OWN
LAND (8pm) is… yes, you’ve guessed it, Fearne Cotton. Hurrah! Welcome back, Fearne! We love you, Fearne!
Just kidding. It is, of course, darling Joanna herself (isn’t she brilliantly horrible in Sunday night’s Finding Alice, by the way?), setting out on a nostalgic personal journey across the UK.
Elsewhere tonight, in episode two of THE DROWNING (C5, 9pm) Jill Halfpenny’s Jodie is taking evermore desperate steps to prove she’s not delusional, still insisting that 13-year-old Daniel is in fact her missing-presumed-dead son Tom.
She spends much of tonight’s episode snooping around the home of Daniel’s dad Mark (Rupert Penry-Jones), looking for evidence to back up her claim. And it seems she may have found some.
In Mark’s office she discovers a folder containing important documents.We know it contains important documents because Mark has written “important documents” on the front, as naturally one does.
The Drowning is twaddle, obviously, but it’s proper nervejangling, edge-of-your-seat twaddle. I’m hooked.