The Singer Takes It All

The quality of light entertainment on British TV ha s been on a downward spiral for years, so the appearance of such a dreadful offering should really come as no surprise.'The Singer Takes It All' drags our reality/talent TV down to the same miserable level as America's redneck-rubbish 'I Wanna Marry Harry' - that is the most damning indictment I can think of at present. Hosted by the awful Alan Carr, a man with all the warmth and charm of sour milk, the show sees wannabe hopefuls paraded on a moving conveyor belt the direction of which is ostensibly determined by viewers operating a mobile phone app. Carr is assisted in his humiliation of these poor souls by some character called Rob Beckett, who allegedly is a comedian, although I saw no evidence of this. All this takes place beneath moving images of a disembodied mouth (imaginatively referred to as 'Lips'), the purpose of which seems to be to encourage Carr to further lower the tone of an already pretty down-market show.

This is television designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator- those who read the Daily Sport and aspire for their children to be the next Katie Price or Joey Essex. If you want a glimpse of where this kind of thing is leading us, seek out the movie 'Idiocracy' - 'Ow My Balls' is surely just around the corner.