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Bungitin
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Alan Davies does the winter olympics.
Only on in the background, is it meant to inspire or depress us?
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Only on in the background, is it meant to inspire or depress us?
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It partly wanted to take the proverbials out of the winter olympics (the BBC were very proud of their involvement in 2012) but had to be serious now and then because the olympics is a jolly serious thing.
A mess.
Alas, epic fail.
I agree.
The most interesting guest on the show was, of course, Konrad Bartelski - still trying to figure out why the rest were actually there (well, apart from ripping into the Danish lass who was there to make Team GB look good when compared to Team Denmark)
I only managed ten minutes of it had to turn over to The Last Leg which i was recording, It might of worked if Alan Davies was not presenting he is dreadful
he was reading off cards when interviewing Amy Williams........very unprofessional !
Yeah, if only Bruce Forsyth hadn't used cards when speaking to contestants on The Generation Game, what an amateur.
As for the extremely unprofessional David Frost and his clipboard did he ever work again on TV after That Was The Week That Was?
I thought your thread title was pretty rubbish too ;-) insofar as it left me having to second guess what it was about, but actually I guessed it must be about this show before I opened it up and read your post. So actually, maybe it was quite a good title in some kind of ironic way after all.
Apres Ski with Alan Davies. A simple question - WHY?
I didn't expect my sides to be bursting with mirth at it, or to be overly entertained, but it did not even begin to reach my low expectations of it. This was utterly dreadful and uninspiring stuff, as unfunny as it was pointless. I was sitting bolt upright in a chair, wide awake at 10pm when it began yet by 10.15pm I'd fallen asleep before stirring at 10.24pm again. I never do that! When it ended I realised I could have been watching The Last Leg and was livid with myself.
What did this show want to be, except an insult to viewers, an insult to comedy and an insult to sport.
BBC's reputation trickles away a little bit further by the day.
It's almost as if the BBC just wanted to give Alan Davies something to do...anything. It's bizarre. Plus he's just not consistently amusing in any way whatsoever.
He could do a new Winter Olympic sport - Curling....Toe Curling.
But the W.O. is merely a load of people in a foreign country finding different ways to slide around on some ice . << YAAAAWWWWWWN! >>
I always find your posts so insightful that I tend to make a point of watching what you slag off.
This has led me to see many wonderful shows over time
I had no real interest in the WO but I will now give them a go - Thanks Petely
Nothing wrong with using cards or even a Teleprompter but his reading was so stilted, Amy Williams came over as a much more natural speaker and she is quite new to commentating.
The laughter from the audience did not sound natural, might not have been a laugh track but there was something odd about it.
I saw Amy Williams earlier in the day and her potential was noted.
As for Alan Davies, maybe Stephen Fry can teach him a thing or two about presenting.
"We need a light entertainment show to celebrate the winter olympics."
"Yeh, and it should be informative"
"But not dry and boring."
"Fronted by a comedian?"
"Man of the ignorant, Alan Davies from QI?"
"Yeh."
"Excellent!"
I was just about to start a thread on the programme because I didn't see a thread about it.
I can't remember much of the show because I watched it at 3am after a night out but I do remember not being impressed.
The female comedian, who looked as though she'd consumed Carey Mulligan, spoke about two sentences in the entire show. The other female guest didn't get much of a look in either.
Apres Ski with Alan Davies RIP.
To save you the trouble, here's a list:
But be aware, I haven't ever watched most of these genres.
If I think of anything more, I'll be sure to slag it off for your benefit.
However, if Sky was to get together with SS and make a chat show full of "gently, quirky" humour where cartoon celebrities filmed a motorway patrol 24*7 in a foreign country during a civil war about a long-running, story-less, competition to redecorate a crypt and named it after the lead celeb, I would be unable to resist ;-)
Bury it in the snow and ice and don't let a St.Bernard dog come along and sniff it out again.
The show worked on one Winter Olympic level. It seems to have left most people stone cold.
Ha ha, love your newly identified genre 'eponymously named shows':
Ross Kemp on.....
Piers Morgan's...etc
Richard Hammond's
Lorraine anything
Ant and Dec's...... (I don't care how many NTAs they have won for how many years)
Might I also add to the list anything with 'New' in front of the title. This basically means "We have made so many series over so many years repeated so many times that all blend into one load of tv mediocrity that we have to tell you when we actually put on a new series."
e.g. All New Gadget Show, New You've Been Framed
The put New at the start of the title to tell you that it's a new episode and then repeat the episode several times so it's not new anymore but still listed as such
Although she did have nice legs.