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Jeremy Lee on Media

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Obviously pleased with the format and throwing its much-vaunted ‘public value test' to the wind, BBC Three has been endlessly repeating a show that it ran over Christmas called Most Annoying People 2008.

It's a predictably crummy cheap programme, more the sort of low-brow populist fare that you'd find on E4, Bravo or Sky One, but is harmless enough and I suppose could be called knockabout media navel-gazing fun.

Inspired by this uninspiring format while stranded at home due to Network Rail's inability to string up power cables properly, I thought who would be likely contenders for 2009 and stuck in front of the telly some obvious contenders came up.

It wasn't difficult - in fact I've already filled the top two slots with *** Strawbridge and his moronic son James, a sort of skinny Justin Lee-Collins without the personality or sense of humour, from It's Not Easy Being Green, which returned to BBC2 last night. What idiot in a commissioning department thought that this would make good telly?

And then on Channel 4 Phil ‘n' Kirstie returned for yet another series of Location, Location, Location that now looks so out of sync with the national mood the show might as well be a sympathetic look at the world of international bankers.

In an attempt to spice up this tired format Kirstie has copied Sarah Beeny and got pregnant, while in a particularly contrived scene they gather in a banker to pore over digital maps to find the optimum spot for the house-hunters; on this occasion they were the worst couple of venal over-paid cloth-brains that I've ever seen.

So that's at least six places filled from just one night's telly viewing. Any other suggestions are welcome. And then I can hawk the format round to any idiot in any commissioning department and become rich.

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  January 8, 2009

FYI our censors have gone into override and the abbreviated version of Richard is deemed to be offensive hence the asterisks....

  January 13, 2009

What dickhead introduced that system?

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