My thirty-seventh TV Week over at Newslite.tv features a reprise of my reviews for The Big Red Nose Climb and Comic Relief Does The Apprentice, but also features a brand new review for BBC3 sketch show Horne & Corden. Enjoy!
The critics have savaged HORNE & CORDEN, but it's not as awful as other BBC3 efforts with a similar format (The Wall, Blunder.) I guess everyone just expects more from this ubiquitous pair, who have yet to equal their Gavin & Stacy breakthrough. The problem with this sketch show is brutally simple: H&C are talented performers, but weak writers. I think it's safe to assume that Ruth Jones, the co-writer of Gavin & Stacey, is the real brains behind the award-winning series -- which, let's be honest, appeals to audiences more for its feelgood factor than an abundance of belly-laughs. Continue reading...
