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TV: Pick of the week
by Chris Osuh25/ 4/2005
SOME say British sitcom is dead.
But maybe that doesn't matter - because viewers are assured plenty
of spontaneous humour from the ridiculous world of celebrity
challenge shows.
If you, like me, thought C4's The Games - which featured Craig
Charles trying to ski jump in a neck brace, ex-Brookie and Bread
stars preening and flouncing- was the funniest thing since the last
episode of Corrie, then you're in for a treat when
Celebrity Wrestling
(Saturday, ITV1) hits
our screens.
The programme boasts expert analysis from playground legend and 90s
wrestling hero "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, and features a veritable galaxy
of stars going head to head in the ring.
This includes dreadlocked showjumper Oliver Skeete, comedy bounder
James Hewitt, Annabel Croft and Jenny Powell. Throw in Eastenders'
Gianni di Marco and Liberty X girl-next-door Michelle Heaton, and
you have all the makings of TV gold.
Bob Geldof is well-intentioned, but vain and annoying. Paula Yates
was just annoying. Now their doubtless equally annoying sprog has a
show.
Peaches Geldof: Teenage Mind
(Monday,
Sky One). I'll be avoiding this and suggest you do the
same.
Mongolia is a fascinating place. Everybody knows its most famous
son, but few could actually recount his deeds.
Genghis Khan,
(Monday, BBC1), hopes to
change all that with an epic, computer-aided dramatisation of the
warrior-king that claims to be the most complete portrait of his
life and legacy.
The show certainly humanises the man, who, along with Attila the
Hun, has become a byword for wanton slaughter. Based on The Secret
History of the Mongols - a chronicle written 13 years after his
death - it portrays him as a visionary who enlightened and united
his people, introducing a legal system and a medieval version of
the NHS.
Viewers who watch those programmes that show shocking acts of
anti-social behaviour, like Cops, Robbers and Videotape, Booze
Britain, or World's Wildest Police Videos, don't watch them because
they share the presenters' assumed moral censoriousness.
They watch these "chavploitation" shows because they like to see
crime, violence and stupidity in its purest form. Five's latest
offering,
Classroom Chaos
(Wednesday,
Five) promises secretly-filmed "disruption", "even in schools
praised by Ofsted."
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