Davina Does Parky - McCall Signs Up For BBC Chat Show

…Or she will, thanks to a £1 million cheque from the BBC. Better find something more to wear than black then, love.

Honchos at the BBC are hoping Davina McCall’s new chat show will draw a considerable female audience, leaving us to assume she has a) been given the daytime slot and is b) going up against Loose Women.

Conjecture is as conjecture does, however; we are basing this on nothing more than educated guesswork, and a bit of flagrant stereotyping.

Davina’s previous show for the BBC, He’s Having a Baby, went down like a Jonathan King telethon with viewers.

Hardly surprising for the Saturday night crowd. Watch weepy dads and dribbling kids, or blow twenty quid on the fruit machine down the pub? Tough choice.

The BBC has spectacularly failed to know it’s audience yet again. Though mentioning the unmitigated disaster of ‘comedy’ The Green Green Grass (three million switched off in the second week alone) is just rubbing salt in their wounds. But what can you do?

Next month ‘Davina!’ or ‘Girlie Chat’ or ‘Non-Threatening Former Drug Addict Who Acts Like Your Big Sister’ will be filmed as a pilot. Those-with-the-taxpayers-cash can then make a final decision on whether or not to commission a full series.

Unemployed benefit cheats, neglectful mothers, students and those with the onset of Bird Flu can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Society might hate you, but Davina never will.

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[story by Chris Laverty]