I haven't regularly watched any thing on ITV since, well here's the thing, I can't actually remember the last thing I regularly watchedon ITV. It was probably the Martin Clunes series "William & Mary", which I have only remembered by searching for "Martin Clunes undertaker!". That was first broadcast in 2004 and I only watched the first series!
ITV had become the channel that my remote never stopped on, until that is the last couple of weeks when they have finally produced two series worth watching.
The first is Moving Wallpaper. This is half of a new concept from the writer of Life on Mars. MW is a comedy starring Ben Miller who starred as Bough in Jonny English and is half of the Miller & Armstrong comedy duo. WM is written around the production and writing staff of a Soap Opera called Echo Beach and it is genuinely funny. Ben Miller is great but the rest of the cast also play well rounded characters whose parts are well written. The second half of each hours programme is then the soap that they have been writing. This is not as good but then I don't do soaps, so that may be the problem.
The second programme is called "Thank God you're here" which is based on an American programme of the same name. ITV have had the genius to use Paul Merton to host it & that makes it all the funnier. In it four contestants (celebrity/comedy guests) get made up in a costume and then placed in a sketch with no prior notice of what the sketch will entail. They then have to improvise while all other actors (three or four) throw in pre scripted lines to add confusion. The results are, as they say, hilarious!
ITV rises from the ashes? Well sticks its head out and blinks a bit.
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