BenS
Tuesday 27th August 2013 3:39am [Edited]
122 posts
Quote: Aaron @ August 26 2013, 9:30 PM BST
It wasn't too bad, but as you hint at with your observation that it felt people were holding back a bit, it's really too soon to have made such a programme. You need a good few more years for scores behind the scenes to be settled, for shows to disappear from the public's mind so that the real best emerge, and for the influences to begin to be felt in new commissions.
I agree, I think doing Laughing at the Eighties would have been far wiser. At times I got the sense from some of them that they couldn't adequately reflect because they were still riding the rollercoaster. I really did think that Alan Carr was holding a lot of his opinions back, I really do, I think he wanted to go off on this whole celebrity culture nonsense that's gripped the world. But, as you say, it's too soon so a lot of these individuals are still either tied to contracts or are still popular enough so that they have to be careful. That being said though I really liked Catherine Tate as the host, I found her really engaging with the guests in a way Jenn Saunders didn't. I love Saunders but it came down to at times just her talking and talking and the guests smiling and nodding.
