Ok... This is happening right now and these are my raw thoughts... please forgive me if I tend to use hyperbole... I am still experiencing effects that may take some time to subside...
Firstly. It is ridiculous. Utterly. But it knows that, isn't ashamed of it, but also isn't trying to be all 'arch' and 'knowing' and 'douchebaggy'. It just is what it is. Celebrities hitting water.
Secondly, my guess is that this is not made for me. It seems to be for people who wondered what 'strictly' would be like wet, or what 'Ice Dance one' would be like melted. I'm sure such people must exist, otherwise the venn diagram showing: People who like Saturday night Froth and People who like Diving has a bigger intersection than anyone could ever imagine.
Remember when The Olympics made everyone smile and we were all banging on about how 'It will be brilliant that people can have proper rolemodels instead of TV Bellends'... Guess what, some demon has found a format to get those TV Bellends back at the top where they belong.
And hail to them all. Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards is still rocking his Loser-keeps-going-wins-respect shtick that is just begging to be mangled into a piece of Tom Hanks Oscar Bait.
He done did a good dive.... and fair play to him, He probably has trained hard. All 5 will train hard. Some will be amazing. None will be as good as actual divers though. Why not just get amazing divers to compete and just front it with celebrities...
That would probably work you know. We'd make these people celebrities... that's the whole premise works on. Imagine a show about getting better at sports... revolutionary.
You could go even further. Maybe do a few different events... You could pick them from maybe... the list of olympic events?
So a show about young Olympians getting better at sports... you can still have Man Giant Vernon Kaye and Gabby Logan and some pundits and as a bonus we do really well at the next olympics. All wins.
Still, despite seeming like the concept was plucked from an Alan Partridge breakdown it isn't as bad as Twitter was making out.. It is at least not as mind shattering as something like Total Wipeout, which is similar in it's attempt to wring all of the possible drama from a falling human's interaction with the surface of water.
So. Not too bad.
Then again, I am judging it against the horrific spectre of the program that follows it... pointed out to me constantly with a million niggly and insistant adverts... The Apocalypse of all human Culture and achievement... The show that must never be named... The Program that did the impossible and made Blind Date seem highbrow..
Time for this experiment to cease.... Off
(Oh and forgive the scrappiness here. This was literally typed on my phone whilst watching.)
(Oh and forgive the scrappiness here. This was literally typed on my phone whilst watching.)
