Now some of my best friends work on BBC Three, and let me say that I thought Last Man Standing was one of it’s best successes last year. However this made me laugh today from Cohen’s launch speech.
“At BBC Three we should be known for pioneering risk, and be obsessed with all things new – new talent, new programmes, and a new relationship between television and the internet.”
On the current BBC Three homepage right now? Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. A show that first went out in 2003 when BBC Three was called BBC Choice and has just started its 7th series. A show who’s own writers explained that the absense of Ralf Little ‘Johnny’ character was due to the fact that he was at a Shark Jumping Event in America!
Can it!
I’ve always really, REALLY hoped that the only reason Two Pints was being continually broadcast was because it was dirt cheap (or free) to show the repeats, and so they were saving up their money for something bigger and better.
The new series commission seems to have disproved this theory…