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