The Generation Game - Again!

[andy-hughes]

The BBC continues to play cosy nostalgia with the licence fee by providing brilliant vibrant cutting edge entertainment on a Saturday night, dessigned to capture and maintain a younger audience ...

oh no, sorry, it's bringing back The Generation Game with Miranda Hart!

OK, I know the BBC thinks Miranda is hilarious and wonderful - but the notion of her fronting a game show looks doomed to fail.

The tatget audience - the over-fifties who don't go out on Saturdays, won't have a clue who she is and her consntant gurning to the camera will leave them baffled.

The audience who do know who she is and tune in because she is on, will wonder if they have hit a time-warp and been transported back to 1973.

Surely the entire concept is doomed to fail?

Speaking as someone who doesn't even need to see Ms Hart moving and speaking - just a picture of her gives me the urge to kill something as soon as possible - it's an hour i can use to put things in the fridge in alphabetical order, or similar tasks more useful than watching MH on tv - but I am in a minority I know.

Anyone else think this is a bad idea for the objective reasons I have offered?

[Sipowicz]

Good post, good post!

[sandyRoe]

This gurning into the camera, did she pick that up from Brucie? I seem to remember he used to do that.
I won't be watching.

[Baldric]

Can't stand the woman, will not be watching, that's for sure!

[pixie373]

Hi Andy, there is another post in media (I think) pretty much agreeing with that. I do like Miranda myself, but the Generation Game to me is an old-fashioned, depressing show that my parents used to watch. Won't bother, myself.

[gingejbee]

I don't watch anything with Ms. Hart in it. She is beloved by broadcasters and disliked by me (much like James Corden. Both not funny.

[aelmpvw]

cutting edge entertainment on a Saturday night ... is there a channel that provides that? please point me in the right direction

[Everhelpful]

You are not in the minority,andy!!

[tonymclark]

Most revived Game Shows have revised formats, so it may well work.

The original Generation Game succeeded for a while without Bruce (with Larry Grayson and Jim Davidson), I don't see this as any different.

[andy-hughes]

tonymclark - "The original Generation Game succeeded for a while without Bruce (with Larry Grayson and Jim Davidson), I don't see this as any different."

The saving grace of continuing the GG at that time was that it was still considered relatively current - it was of its time.

An entire new generation watch TV now - they won't remember the show, and those who do remember it will be nostalgic for previous hosts, not wanting to see a great galumphing horse-faced woman with bad hair falling around and pulling faces at the camera.

[WELSHYORKIE]

I am over 50 - I know who Miranda Hart is - and I won't be watching.

[Zacs-Master]

Another non story i'm afraid:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11041629/Miranda-Hart-denies-Generation-Game-involvement-despite-BBC-announcement.html

[WELSHYORKIE]

Probably holding out for big money contract, ZM

[Quizmonster]

Andy, I thought I was alone in the world in finding Amanda Hart as close to a comedic talent as Genghis Khan was to a kindly liberal. Your OP and most of the comments to date suggest that there may be 'multitudes' like us. Thank goodness for that!

[hc4361]

A lot of older people know Miranda Hart from Call the Midwife.

Watch it before making your mind up

[andy-hughes]

QM, the maths is tragically simple - of a population of 62 million people - 61 million of us think Ms Hart is about as amusing as dystentary on a coach holiday, but the other million thik she is hilarious - so the BBC keep putting her out there.

Perhaps it's the 'Kielty' factor - you WILL watch enough of this person until you think they are as funny as we do.

[andy-hughes]

hc4361 - "A lot of older people know Miranda Hart from Call the Midwife.

Watch it before making your mind up."

Not relavent - Ms Hart's credentials in a serious drama bear no relation to her 'comedy' persona - goosberries and rasberries both grow on bushes - but they are not the same.

[Zacs-Master]

not read my post then andy?

[Caribeing]

TV remakes are like movie remakes never work always hard to replace the orginal. The Generation Game was great in its day with Brucie good Saturday night family entertainment. Miranda Hart will not replica this, like Ricky Gervais, Allen Carr, I find her unfunny!!

[viv38]

I like her and will probably watch it.