Every time someone at TV Cream Towers watches an old episode of Blankety Blank, a familiar, hoary question soon surfaces: who would be the best person to host a successful revival?
As ever we have to make a distinction between who should ideally do it, and who would inevitably do it.
The latter category, depressingly, is full of names such as Vernon Kay, Graham Norton and John Barrowman: capable anchors but no Blank-ors.
Nope, there’s only one person who could bring the right dosage of weather-beaten charm, syntactical poise and celebrity backchat.
And that person is Les Dennis.
As for the line-up of panellists on the first show of the new series, it should be:
Back left: Rolf Harris
Back middle: Barbara Windsor
Back right: Huw Edwards
Front left: Kirsty Young
Front middle: David Mitchell
Front right: Claudia Winkleman
But it invariably would be:
Back left: Michael Parkinson
Back middle: One of the Loose Women
Back right: Steve Wright
Front left: Fearne Cotton
Front middle: James Corden
Front right: Davina McCall
Arthur Nibble
August 19, 2009 at 11:12 pm
My favourite Blanks moment….
My rag and bone man won the pools – now he drives a ‘blank’
Spike Milligan’s answer – a rich horse!
Chris Hughes
August 20, 2009 at 10:08 am
Look, front left… it’s Frances Pascal!
Pearlyman
August 20, 2009 at 10:55 am
Who’s at top middle there? Anne…?
Pearlyman
August 20, 2009 at 11:10 am
Ah, sorry, it’s Aimi McDonald isn’t it? Surely she and Dora Bryan should be swapping seats?
goodpudding
August 21, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Modern Blank panel:
Back Left: Rolf Harris
Back Middle: Babs, of course!
Back Right: Bill Turnbull
Front Left: Lorraine Kelly
Front Middle: Tim Vine
Front Right: Claudia Winkleman
Host: Lee Mack
Thoughts people or have I gone mad!
David Smith
September 7, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Come on Terry, you’ll have a bit of spare time on your hands soon – BB needs you!