Friday, July 07, 2006
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CHARITY! Sport Relief Presents...Only Fools On Horses, BBC1, 8.30pm
First of all, we do love a good pun, so perhaps we're automatically predisposed to like this show. But in all honesty the true selling point of this show is something it shares with ITV's Dancing On Ice - the very real possibility of celebrities getting very badly hurt. Hooray! Already, before the show has even started, various equine-unfriendly incidents have meant that certain folks from the lineup have been substituted - Dragon's Den's Duncan Bannatyne has fallen at the first hurdle (arf!) and been replaced by Nicki Chapman, and comedian Felix Dexter has been substituted with Josie D'Arby, bless her. (It does make you wonder exactly how low in the celeb pecking order you have to be before you're the sort of person who's on the standby list for what is essentially a C-list event at best.)
So, it's all for charity, which is lovely, but basically we all want to see the various contenders make an arse of themselves on horseback, yes? Although we will concede that it's equally nice when someone unlikely emerges as the potential hero in something like this. We don't know much about form, but apparently the smart money at this stage is on people like Sara Cox, Matt Hollyoaks Littler and Matt Blue Peter Baker, all of whom have some degree of prior experience with horses, if not with competitive showjumping.
It's going to be spread over a week to give us time to eliminate the chaff, and it sounds like a hoot - certainly one of the most interesting variations on the age-old "what to do with a bunch of not-very-celebrities to raise a bunch of moolah for a good cause" conundrum, and the people taking part have got to be good sports to put themselves at risk of both humiliation and injury in front of the nation, so brava to that. And, let's be honest, it gives us all a break from bloody Big Brother, doesn't it?
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