Chris Hughes (III)

I've been watching the first episode of Rob Brydon's new BBC3 endeavour Annually Retentive, which is now available on broadband. And, well, it's pretty good. [...] But the really brilliant thing, as with all Brydon's projects, is in his eye for the detail. The actual panel game itself is an excruciating fascimile of the real thing, complete with all the lazy tics and riffs.

It takes an awful lot to make you pine for Jim Davidson, but Graham Norton damn near managed it with Generation Fame. Perhaps the most frustrating thing about this whole dismal exercise was that you knew exactly what it was going to be like beforehand, and yet the Generation Fame still had enough goodwill in the tank to make you give it a go.