"Richard Hammond's Secret Service"
Kolin Klingon
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Well I love Richard Hammond and like Total Wipeout and many other shows that a lot hate...
But this new show is the biggest pile of Poo I have ever seen on TV.
I'm actually embarrassed on behalf of the show.
But this new show is the biggest pile of Poo I have ever seen on TV.
I'm actually embarrassed on behalf of the show.
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I like Hammond's humour, but its doing what it set out to do.
Seconded, sounds like canned laughter too.
BBC3's Impractical Jokers isn't bad btw.
Slightly different idea though, it's the jokers rather than the random punters you're laughing at.
Oh bugger me, there's a living breathing audience.
Oh dear, I like Clare Balding, so I won't be watching her doing a gameshow, I can't see how that's going to go well.
They need to cut him out and make it 100% voice over. I might give it a second chance then.
I hate all that "faux-off-the-cuff" humour crap.
Richard (I'll present any old tosh for a few quid) Hammond should be very ashamed of himself.
Candid Camera died a death in the 1960's, let it rest in peace.
Sorry Candid Camera, have you been living under a rock for the last 40 years?
The prank show hasn't gone anywhere and is unlikely to for the foreseeable.
Dom Joly's try at the primetime prank show on ITV wasn't much copp either, from what I saw of it.
Hey ho, Saturday 'primetime' isn't my usual territory, back to Tigers on BBC 4 for me.
Get on Youtube and watch Just For Laughs, you'll still be watching it an hour later!
Sounds like it, but they did have a live audience:
http://www.applausestore.com/applausestore-book-show.php?id=2085&bid=1
We have moved on since the days of Candid Camera.
Frankly as a complaint about TV, if you want and expect new, you'd get about an hour of TV a day.
All you can hope for is a new 'slant' on an old idea at best IMO.
I spotted them at the end, and was surprised to see them there.
Oh well you lot can look forward to more of those poor comedy fillers bits.
Oh well, cheery bye to Saturday primetime for me, haven't watched it properly for 20+ years, so no skin off my nose if it's $hite
Yes, how is it his secret service?
I'd expect that if you are a celebrity who fronts a show which is prefixed by your own name, then if it fails it should be seen that it is a failing on your part too.
Its worse than Don't Scare The Hare
Great hidden camera stunts without victimising the people they were involving.
I think your post confirms that the people the show is aimed at, i.e families and possibly kids, seemed to have liked it. It did what it was meant to do. I do think that the timelot was wrong and that it possibly alienated older viewers away from the channel.