Channel 4's annual report, published today, contains the usualy hand-wringing statements about what might happen if some sort of settlement on its future funding model is decided.
But instead of Andy Duncan and Luke Johnson going on about their editorial highlights of 2008 (of which there are many) while claiming that editorial spend is now going to be reduced by at least 10%, thereby implying that we won't see such gems as The Inbetweeners and The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall, why don't they just make policy makers sit through an episode of Come Dine With Me to show how bleak the channel's future could be?
This series, which appears to be on a loop on More4, consists of boring people holding a dinner party with a camera in the corner. Now I love my food shows - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Masterchef and even the Great British Menu - but this series is so bad that if this is the future of C4 then I'm tempted to organise a whip-round myself.
