I was planning to lay off Lily Allen after recent documented events, but then I read todays news about the filming of her BBC 3 chatshow 'Lily Allen and Friends'. Hailed as the new saviour of BBC3, Lily has this week been filming the first show to be broadcast during the channels relaunch this coming Tuesday. But it appears to have all gone wrong.
An article in todays Mail On Sunday has revealed that Lily's endearing personality caused a large proportion of her audience (amassed from her army of cyberfriends on the once popular social networking site Myspace) to walk out of filming, citing the programme as "limp" and "horrible". I for one am not surprised. The BBC has a distinct habit of thinking its so unbelievably on the fucking pulse, that by sticking a popular social networking celebrity onto the television as well as on the website its been wanking off about for so long that it can create a popular viewing experience that ticks all the boxes of its future programming mandate. They must have spent so much time coming up with this mind-blowingly shit concept, that unfortunately they've forgotten to give their cooler than fuck popstar any training in the art of presenting; I'd hardly call a guest stint on The Friday Night Project suitable cause to give anyone a entire series.
While popular among fourteen year olds, BBC3s target audience of twenty something Trev's and Trevette's will be harder to win over by Miss Allen. Her attempts to address this fact included screening videos of Animals having sex - a decision that was met with much retort from guest Cuba Gooding Junior. What reaction did she expect? He's hardly David fucking Attenborough. The crowd were also not impressed, but were forced to clap their hands in false appreciation by the desperate production staff. As if this wasn't enough, she also went off on a tangent during a interview with Peep Show's David Mitchell, complaining that people write horrible things about her on online forums - which Mitchell pointed out was the very target audience that the BBC has aimed the program at. Good work Lily!
I for one can't wait to witness this car crash this coming Tuesday, especially as Lily already thinks the whole world is against her. Surely come the critical onslaught on Wednesday this view should be further confirmed. I really don't think that replacing the channels idents and giving a mediocre pop artist their own chat show can really cover up the underlying sewage of BBC3. You can't polish a turd. But every cloud has a silver lining, and with any luck it will also signal the end for the shittest channel on British Television. And if Lily can achieve this single handedly, we should all add her to our friends list.
Fact Of The Week: Lily Allen is the daughter of actor Keith Allen. Just in case you didn't know that already. Kieth Allen played a drug dealer in Trainspotting and the personification of tooth decay in a mouthwash commercial
While popular among fourteen year olds, BBC3s target audience of twenty something Trev's and Trevette's will be harder to win over by Miss Allen. Her attempts to address this fact included screening videos of Animals having sex - a decision that was met with much retort from guest Cuba Gooding Junior. What reaction did she expect? He's hardly David fucking Attenborough. The crowd were also not impressed, but were forced to clap their hands in false appreciation by the desperate production staff. As if this wasn't enough, she also went off on a tangent during a interview with Peep Show's David Mitchell, complaining that people write horrible things about her on online forums - which Mitchell pointed out was the very target audience that the BBC has aimed the program at. Good work Lily!
Why would anyone want to watch this fucking toss? This is typical of BBC3; choose a presenter for your flagship programme that has a reputation of being positively repulsive on most of her previous television appearances (I remember a particularly 'loveable' outing on Never Mind The Buzzcocks), completely based on her popularity as a mockney warbler. Lily certainly doesn't have the pulling power or personality of previous celebrity singers turned TV hosts such as Johnny Cash or the voice of the valleys Mr Tom Jones, so the omens certainly aren't good. The ineptitude of the producers has to come in to question. They should have got Fogle at least he's a lot more likable.
I for one can't wait to witness this car crash this coming Tuesday, especially as Lily already thinks the whole world is against her. Surely come the critical onslaught on Wednesday this view should be further confirmed. I really don't think that replacing the channels idents and giving a mediocre pop artist their own chat show can really cover up the underlying sewage of BBC3. You can't polish a turd. But every cloud has a silver lining, and with any luck it will also signal the end for the shittest channel on British Television. And if Lily can achieve this single handedly, we should all add her to our friends list.
Fact Of The Week: Lily Allen is the daughter of actor Keith Allen. Just in case you didn't know that already. Kieth Allen played a drug dealer in Trainspotting and the personification of tooth decay in a mouthwash commercial
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