How indeptly brilliant is Sky One's celeb-based circus challenge series Cirque de Celebrite? Very, that how. Already lumbered with a pretentious name, the programme sommehow manage to battle faulty microphones, mediocre judges and the problem of having far too many competitors, and has become compulsive TV.
I never seem to tire of watching host Ruby Wax trying to listen to what her producers saying in her ear and then woefully misinterpreting it. I love the way that the later contestants never have time for feedback from the judges. And I'm always astounded when a contestant mishears and assumes they've been saved by the public vote when they haven't.
Best of all, among a selection of inspired casting, is Big Brother's Grace Adams-Short's TV rehabilitation as a circus superstar who keeps winning. Problem is, the winner has to choose who gets bumped off each week and every week Grace pretends to have terrible problems making the decision, prompting much teary-eyed bleating before suddenly getting rid of whoever isn't her friend. Bless - though I can't forgive her for axing Apprentice Syed, whose gradual collapse of confidence would have been an even better ongoing saga than that of who actually gets to win.
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