Sweat The Small Stuff

Sweat The Small Stuff interview

As the BBC3 panel show returns for a fourth series, Grimmy, Rochelle Humes and Melvin O'Doom talk nightmareish pranks, awkwardness, dream guests and Joan Rivers.

Nick Grimshaw's Sweat The Small Stuff: day in the life

It's brash it's silly and like the rest of the shows on BBC Three, it's 'heading online'.

Its first run earlier this year performed relatively sluggishly. But the BBC have a lot invested in Nick Grimshaw - they'll be hoping for slightly more from this returning panel show. But maybe the format is the problem. There are just so many panel show and so little distinguishing them from each other. Maybe commissioners need to think about an altogether new delivery mechanism for their talent.

Grimshaw's a likeable enough character and he'll be rejoined by Rochell Humes and Melvin O'Doom for this survey of life's small irritations. But much like the subject matter, there's just something inessential about this scenario.

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Xtra Factor star Matt Richardson jokes about Cowell

Xtra Factor star Matt Richardson jokes he 'performed sex act on Simon Cowell in job interview'. The comedian was showing off on Grimmy's BBC3 show as he dished out some controversial gags, including Tulisa's arrest.

In the old days, panel shows used to be about specific subjects. News, music, sport, politics, TV. What has Grimmy been left with? Stuff. Thanks, BBC Three.

Joining Grimmy on this beige TV adventure are the pregnant one from The Saturdays and famous-in-their-own-bathrooms DJ duo Rickie and Melvin. As you can imagine it's wall-to-wall laughs. If you're a sadist.

The BBC's answer to the bafflingly successful Celebrity Juice, the show ditches all the crude Keith Lemon boobs and spunk gags and replaces them with 30 minutes of meandering middle-of-the-road drivel. The TV equivalent of the Magic FM playlist.

It felt like watching seven people sat in a room, rambling on, hoping that by chance they might stumble upon an idea for a TV show. Sadly for us, this gang are more lost than a good idea in the BBC Three offices.

The pregnant one from The Saturdays shaving a man's chest hair, inane 'banter' about sending naked pictures on Snap Chat, Ricky or Melvin (I don't know which and I don't care) trying to get a man in a gym to rub Deep Heat on his groin. And those were the highlights.

Nick Grimshaw deserves better and so do we.

Because what the world needs now is not love, sweet love, as extolled by Burt Bacharach, but another panel show. This one is hosted by Radio 1's breakfast disc jockey Nick "Grimmy" Grimshaw. In an unusual meeting of brands, Kiss FM's Rickie & Melvin and Rochelle Humes from the Saturdays helm the teams, which explore the titular small issues of the day with some special guests. It's already bagged a second series before the commencement of the first, something even Alan Partridge never achieved.

In a light-hearted escape from the bigger picture - global warming, economic meltdown and the like - BBC Radio 1 Breakfast presenter Nick 'Grimmy' Grimshaw steps out from behind his mic to host a weekly panel show designed to shift our focus. He'll be joshing us into fretting over the small things in life that are really worth losing sleep over, such as whether or not to accept your mum's friend request on Facebook. With a couple of team captains - radio rivals Rickie Haywood-Williams and Melvin Odoom from Kiss FM - and an assorted gaggle of guests, including regular fixture Rochelle Humes from The Saturdays, Grimshaw has a ball with the week's less newsworthy items.

Perkily tonsured Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Nick Grimshaw is a busy man these days. Not content with getting up at stupid o'clock every morning to drag the nation's youngsters out of their beds, he's also undertaking this new project. It's filming close to transmission so no preview material was available. But what we're dealing with is, essentially, a new panel show.

Every week, Grimshaw will be joined by Kiss FM DJs and team captains Rickie and Melvin, and regular guest Rochelle Humes from The Saturdays. They'll be exploring pet hates and irrational personal obsessions - in other words, the smallest issues of the day. We suspect this could go either way. Grimshaw's a likeable chap, but there are so many panel shows these days that a new one is going to struggle to really distinguish itself.