Five is the new Four

After years of Channel 4 screwing around with top shows Dawsons' Creek, Angel and Alias, we were thrilled when he learnt Five had pinched the rights and hoped we'd soon be able to watch them in decent slots. How wrong we were. This year Five had the rights to Party in the Park, and following the terrible T4 attempts at televising the event (replacing live performances with inane chats backstage), we thought the fifth channel couldn't do it any worse. Once again, wrong for so many reasons. Geri Halliwell's incessent flirting with anything vaguely male. Every time the presenters linked to something, they'd stand puzzled until the voices in the head told them to link to something else. Duncan Blue - hopeless. Bland film reviewer from MTV - hopeless. Missing decent performances for the sake of Anastacia hurling balls at celeb heads. We thought being miles from the front of the event was bad, but it was even harder to view the "Party" from the confort of our own home.