Jacqui Smith was commissioned by the BBC to look at the, ahem, ‘adult entertainment industry’, on the flimsy pretext that her husband rented a couple of films, which, embarrassingly, found their way onto one of her infamous expenses claims. We look forward to more, equally pointless, programmes based on irrelevant mishaps and misdemeanours.
James Naughtie and Jeremy Hunt take half an hour to investigate the fascinating derivation of the word ‘cunt’, without articulating the word once. Max Moseley takes a tour of the London Dungeon, and wonders when he’d last seen people in so much pain without him having spent serious money. Michael Barrymore introduces ‘Flotation, Flotation, Flotation’, an amusing and in-depth probe into pool-related fatalities.
And, lastly, the BBC will critique its own commissioning policy with a no-holds-barred exposé, provisionally entitled ‘Barrel scraping throughout the ages’...