Caught a bit of the BBC’s new schedule-filler magazine programme The ONE Show last night. I switched off after 10 minutes, but not before I saw their super “hidden camera” feature.
The basic principle of this feature was that they sent people out on trains to behave in the most annoying way possible and find out why the people around them didn’t complain. I would have thought it was obvious – people are understandably afraid of getting their heads kicked in, but Nadia Sawalahahaha treated this finding as some earth-shattering revelation.
“Do you think they’d react differently in a tough northern town like Newcastle?” was the next question posed. “I don’t know,” came the reporter’s reply, “but it would be interesting to find out.”
Yes, it would have been interesting. WHY DIDN’T YOU TAKE YOUR CAMERA TO NEWCASTLE THEN, INSTEAD OF PISSING ABOUT ON THE SILVERLINK METRO?!
Ahem. This could be a whole new genre of factual programming: “Presenters describing features which would be interesting”. It would be much cheaper than the current offerings, so expect to see ITV trying it out in the Tonight with Trevor McDonald slot soon.