You can’t fault the timing – a few days after Davina McCall’s new chatshow created such a stink that the BBC has become actively embarrassed by it, it’s announced that Charlotte Church is to get one of her own.
Fantastic, that’s just what we need. Now, any time you have a lonely Friday night in by yourself, all you’ll be getting for comfort is a shrieking Welsh chain-smoker yelling about how crap Girls Aloud are until everybody in the world loses the will to live. Smart.
Charlotte Church (CDs) is recording a pilot chatshow for Channel Four, it’s
been revealed. Obviously Channel Four is expecting Charlotte’s show to
nestle in perfectly with the programme where that shouting Scottish
woman pokes around a Tupperware box with a shit in it, the series about
heroin addicts going through a painfully unflinching withdrawal and that
autopsy show. Channel Four director of television Kevin Lygo seems very
pleased with his acquisition, though:
"Charlotte is still only 20 years old, but she has a
connection to the public that few people have. How fantastic if we could create this show around a
woman rather than a male comedian. It would be wonderful to have her
doing a fun show on Friday nights."
That’s right – a fun Channel Four Friday evening show. It’d make a
change, that’s for sure – especially after suffering for weeks through
gurning beardy yokel twat Justin Lee Collins and the man with the Dot
Cotton voice bellowing their way through The Friday Night Project. But will a Charlotte Church
chatshow actually be any good?
Some critics are pointing to the
episode of Have I Got News For You that Charlotte presented when she
was just 17 as proof that she will be capable enough to carry an entire
series. But other critics (that’s right – us) point to a documentary we
saw about Charlotte Church a few months ago where all she seemed to do was
yell, "Sharrap Mam, I’m no’ furking drurnk! My Gavin’s well lursh, he
is," over and over again for an hour to prove that our expectations for
this chatshow are pretty low.
If it’s commissioned, the
Charlotte Church show – ‘a mixture of comedy and celebrity chat’ – will
be expected to do better than the universally panned Davina show. But
if it isn’t commissioned, at least Charlotte still has her
underwhelming pop career to focus on.
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Church ‘set to host C4 chat show’ – BBC
[story by Stuart Heritage]