Nicole Scherzinger

The blurb for Bring the Noise promises a "hilariously entertaining new music and comedy show" featuring two teams of three waxing wry on pop ephemera. Basically, in the same way League of Their Own showed what happened if you photocopied the premise of They Think It's All Over and then threw a bigger budget at it, Noise takes the well-worn Never Mind the Buzzcocks formula and adds the comic wiles of Nicole Scherzinger, Tinie Tempah and chief Kaiser Ricky Wilson. A tribute act featuring established musicians.

Ricky Wilson thought he was kicked off Bring the Noise

Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson heard singers Nicole Scherzinger and Tinie Tempah had been lined up for Sky 1's new music panel show and thought his role had gone...

As Kirsty Lang discovered in her piece for Radio Times a few weeks ago, Naomi Campbell is not the easiest of interviewees. Let's hope Ross doesn't ask the wrong question and cause the supermodel to strop out, as she did with Kirsty. Or rather, let's hope he does: it's just the voltage-raiser the show needs, seeing as his other guests tonight are the three X Factor judges (Gary Barlow, Louis Walsh and Nicole Scherzinger). A simple-minded soul might think Ross's guest-bookers were running out of juice.

The inexplicable cult of Russell Kane continues to find a refuge on BBC Three, as the stand-up and his R1 DJ chum Greg James follow Unzipped and How to Win Eurovision with their first chat show.

Staying In is apparently filmed in a mock-up of the 'man den' they would live in if their tiresomely overemphasised bromance was ever consummated.

So celebrity guests including Tinie Tempah, Nicole Scherzinger and Chris 'Thor' Hemsworth can expect to be interviewed in anywhere from the kitchen to the broom cupboard. Sounds unmissable, eh? Poor old BBC Three. While its documentaries, dramas and even comedies have improved stratospherically over time, its entertainment shows are stuck in creative quicksand (Russell Howard's Good News is as wretched as it is popular), trying harder and harder while sinking faster and faster.