troubled waters for TV

Channel Five lay off their finance department, ITV commissioners are having to re-apply for their jobs and popular, long-running game shows like Golden Balls are being axed in favour of cheaper productions and smaller production teams. Not a good time for TV and almost every other industry being hit hard by the recession. It seems only BBC are truly safe, they can just hike up the licence fee to weather the storm...

Price vs. Piers

As headline-grabbing as the Piers Morgan interview with Katie Price was, I found it difficult to focus on anything apart from her face. Her tipex-white teeth, over-botoxed forehead and Morticia Adams-inspired hair do... it was all so distracting. She's starting to resemble Michael Jackson more and more. At least he doesn't draw in his eyebrows with felt-tip pen. Her waxy skin looks so taut that when she speaks the only things to move are her inflated lips and fluttering fake eye lashes.

Curry not Mr Chips

Roy Walker is best remembered as the patronising presenter of retro game show, Catch Phrase. But for reasons only known to him, he's swapped Mr Chips for a curry with the Churchill dog in the latest of their ad campaigns. But he's not the only TV presenter to lose his way.

Like Linda Barker. You’ve got to feel sorry for her. Her career went from the dizzying heights of BBC’s hugely popular Changing Rooms alongside Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen to gracing the pages of lads mags (an ill-advised choice for any aspiring presenter) to being the face of the DFS adverts.

Or Konnie Huq, who like hordes of Blue Peter presenters before her, has struggled to find her feet after leaving the sugar-coated realms of a long-running kid’s TV series. The fact that she still looks like a teenager doesn’t help. Especially as she's 32 years old. She’s failed to carve out a presenting career and instead seems determined to get lumped with tabloid z-listers… the poor girl would turn up at the opening of a packet of crisps if she thought she’d get a few more column inches. Now it seems she's finally found her calling as the face of Alberto Balsam shampoo… things are looking up.

I feel a show coming on... resurrecting the careers of failed TV presenters! Wait a minute, isn't that the point of Celebrity Big Brother and I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here?