Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Please do not swear
TALK! Davina, BBC1, 8.00pm
Join us, if you will, on a story back into the history of LOWCULTURE. In 2002, long before we'd decided we wanted to work in television, we were answering some essay questions in the hope of being invited to attend a television festival in Edinburgh. One of the questions asked us who we'd get to present a new chat show. We chose Davina McCall, because of what we considered her infectious warmth and her ability to get the best of her subjects on Big Brother. We feel that we should point out that we wrote this back when Big Brother was a mere two years old, when Davina was still sympathetic to the evictees rather than stitching them up in front of a baying mob every Friday, and of course back before she started shouting into the camera all the damn time.
We're consulting our lawyers as to whether we have any kind of intellectual copyright on this idea, but in the meantime we thought we'd point out that Davina McCall will be hosting a new chat show on BBC1 tonight. It'll be interesting to see if she pulls this off, as there is a shortage of chat shows on terrestrial TV led by female presenters; Parky and Jonathan Ross seem to have the market rather sewn up. Davina's last effort for BBC1, the Saturday night dad-fest He's Having a Baby was something of a ratings low-point for the channel, so this is her chance to prove that it was the format and not the presenter at fault. The opening show will feature the ubiquitous Charlotte Church, who's usually fairly good value when encouraged to talk about virtually anything, along with Max Beesley and celebrity married couple Vernon Kay and Tess Daly. Of course, if it works we'll be claiming credit for the idea all along, and if it all bombs we'll delete the first paragraph of this post and pretend that nothing ever happened in true "these are not the droids you're looking for" style.
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