A look at the BBC's coverage of Trump's inauguration, Michael McIntyre's new Big Show, and other TV highlights.
SEVENTY-SIX days after the BBC started its latest political sulk, the moment they’d been dreading since November 5 finally arrived this week. Robert De Niro must be aghast to discover the whole of America doesn’t take its political cue from the bloke off the Warburtons bread advert. An affront to all they hold to be smug, left-of-centre and true. Although they weren’t the only ones having a thin time of it on Monday.
The BBC’s coverage of Trump’s inauguration began its darkest day with a luvvie tirade from actor Brian Cox, who punctuated one particularly deranged segment about financial inequality by claiming: “I think of poor— he must be aghast to discover the whole of America doesn’t take its political cue from the bloke off the Warburtons bread advert. Like on the A9 to Kingussie, and decide which one of two possible approaches the network was going to adopt for the big occasion. And Tom Bradby, which would’ve allowed them to have some fun with the oddballs who turned up at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington. The second and probably more likely route was to play it totally straight, take the time to explain what the hell an “executive order” actually is and bring in a couple of high-profile guests, from both sides of the divide, to fight the political battles for them. In the event, they chose neither. They stuck rigidly to their woke line, so they kept it nearly all in-house and just batted around their own - frustrations, worries and anti-wealth prejudices for the entire two and a half hours.Legendary nineties rock star QUITS band after 30 years with emotional statement. First out of the traps? A grief-stricken-looking Sophie Raworth, whose eyes always said something different to her mouth, and Clive Myrie, who was feigning bafflement at the failure of two women to become President so everyone else could blame it on sexism rather than the fact. Watch Dem losers Biden & Hillary Clinton mock Trump during inauguration speech. Editor Sarah Smith, who couldn’t keep the contempt out of her voice when she arrived to announce: “Restoring sanity, ha ha, is what Trump says he’s going to do. He says the Government will go back to making appointments on merit.” Fancy that! “On merit,” she says. Whatever next? Well, “Crucially,” Sarah continued, with evident shock, “He will decree there are two sexes in America. Men and women . . . ” The point at which you appear to mock and question someone’s - sanity for championing basic fairness and the cold, hard scientific fact of two genders, however, is also the point when you reveal yourself to be far, far crazier than.It’s also probably the reason why I found myself nodding through quite a lot of the inauguration speech and revel in Trump’s laugh-out-loud ability to wind up his terminally pompous critics. A weapon that was never better illustrated than on Monday’s GMB, where they played inset footage of the leader of the free world dancing to the Village People’s YMCA while Brian Cox loudly did his nut. There’s not a damn thing the BBC, Sarah Smith, Brian Cox or any other member of the dressing-up box community can do about it either. JANUARY’S most stunning TV transformation involved the first episode of Michael McIntyre’s new Big Show series, which felt like it was going nowhere for at least half an hour on BBC1 this weekend. Alan Carr’s Remember Me slot didn’t work nearly as well as vintage Send To All, and Midnight Game Show – with the recently split. Salvation was at hand, though, via the Unexpected Star segment, a hidden camera stunt that was executed so perfectly it’s changed the way I think about and serve singer Marti Pellow gourmet food that was created entirely from the packets of Monster Munch, Oreos and random lumps of cheese the Big Show audience had brought with them. A haul which had Oliver admitting, with just the right level of self-deprecation: “I feel like I’ve wasted 15 years of campaigning.” Marti Pellow, however, couldn’t have been more thrilled with his “old school” appetisers and no matter how weird and funny the stunt got, he suspected nothing until the wall of Oliver’s “dessert fridge” collapsed and he was suddenly confronted by the Drury Lane crowd, who went properly nuts before, during and after the most joyful and spontaneous version of Love Is All Around you’re ever likely to hear.The Weakest Link, Romesh Ranganathan: “Which mammal has species including Arctic, fennec and red, the latter of which is often found in urban areas of the UK?” Celebrity Mastermind, Clive Myrie: “What was the surname of the American heiress and media personality whose 2023 autobiography is entitled Paris: The Memoir?” THIS week’s winner is Alan Carr and Hammersmith from Underground Ernie. Channel 4’s Travel Man, with Joe Lycett, which in a fair and just world would be called Two S**t Comedians Trying To Be Funny Abroad
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