JAUNDICED JUGGERNAUT of “It’s The Arts” franchise-fulfilling, regulator-appeasing slurry stirred up by “Presenter/Editor” MELVYN “A TIME TO BONK” BRAGG. Supposed unshakeable totem of ITV-as-a-quality-broadcaster, of course, so why is it always shoved out at the arse end of Sunday night? In-between launching himself off on another pompous, boring, cheap, snidey dig at the “arts”-hating BBC, Melv continues to front one-hour profiles of things of a singularly it’s-on-ITV-this-week or it’s-in-the-cinema-from-Friday bent, occasionally remembering there are people still alive who aren’t stand-up comics turned actors or hoary rockers with a greatest hits package to plug. Sigh. Great theme tune and titles, though, courtesy of Lloyd-Webber’s “Variations” for “cello and rock band”.
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Lee James Turnock
May 4, 2010 at 2:57 pm
I remember watching the Ben Elton episode in about 1989 and thinking “Smug bastard”. My opinion hasn’t changed since.