Thursday, January 17, 2008

The greatest show on earth...

... has just launched on Telegraph TV.


It's called "Heffer Confronted", or "why two middle aged men shouldn't allow themselves to be filmed in profile."

Keep watching to the end - they kiss.*

And then it cuts to Ann Widdecombe in a restaurant, who has evidently had to put away several bottles of wine to be able to sit through the preceding rubbish.

Catch it before it goes the way of the click-and-carry edition and all the decent journalists on the paper!





*this is a lie.

3 comments:

Madame Arcati said...

Do you think they were filmed separately or farther apart, Heffalump and Dale's Diary? They don't appear to be quite gazing at each other: I sense spatial inconsistency.

At least Hilary Alexander on the fashion channel has discovered light. The early Debenhams show was done in virtual darkness - redolent of Most Haunted.

Adam Macqueen said...

Iain says on his blog they were actually a good three feet apart and then spliced together, which was a relief because I had a queasy vision of their bellies gently blobbing against each other just out of vision. My favourite description of it so far also comes from his blog: "it looks like Iain is sitting legs-astride on Heffer's lap, like an aggressive kid turning on Santa at the grotto."

The whole of Telegraph TV is like that student-produced Channel 6 in Oxford, isn't it? Personally, if I want amateurish presentation and dreadful technical standards, I'll stick to the Nigerian channel BEN on channel 148 on my Sky box. They do exorcisms and everything.

Adam Macqueen said...

Iain says on his blog they were actually a good three feet apart and then spliced together, which was a relief because I had a queasy vision of their bellies gently blobbing against each other just out of vision. My favourite description of it so far also comes from his blog: "it looks like Iain is sitting legs-astride on Heffer's lap, like an aggressive kid turning on Santa at the grotto."

The whole of Telegraph TV is like that student-produced Channel 6 in Oxford, isn't it? Personally, if I want amateurish presentation and dreadful technical standards, I'll stick to the Nigerian channel BEN on channel 148 on my Sky box. They do exorcisms and everything.