Celebrity Bitchslap News

A spoof entertainment news show, using lookalikes to create CCTV, hidden-camera and cameraphone footage of celebrities behaving embarrassingly. This is unmistakably the work of Alison Jackson, who won a Bafta for BBC2's Double Take. Like her previous work, it takes simple, underwhelming comic ideas, such as Prince William buying anniversary flowers at a petrol station, and adds nothing at all to them, leaving opportunities to raise a laugh or make a point untouched.

Alison Jackson, who won a Bafta for BBC2 series Double Take, offers up a spoof celebrity news show featuring 'stars' (lookalikes) undermined by hidden camera and CCTV footage. It won't appeal to anyone beyond the most die-hard Heat reader but at least it might cause a few PRs to wobble in their Louboutins.

A well-worn spoof format, with roving reporters unearthing grainy footage of lookalikes cavorting riotously in the guise of the rich and famous. So, we see Camilla and Kate getting drunk in a studio, Simon Cowell sitting on a toilet seat carefully layered with black loo paper and Prince William at an all-night garage, in an abysmal scene featuring a turbanned sales clerk who is a throwback to Amusing Asian stereotypes of the 70s. If you love the worst elements of BBC3, you'll love this. The rest of you will not.