DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT NEW GREEN WING!!
Channel 4 are busy hyping the new series of their tragic sitcom “Green Wing”, without mentioning the fact that watching it is about as entertaining as being devoured by weevils. It is set in a hospital and stars the least funny cast members from a host of other comedy shows (look out for the least funny cast members of Book Club! Smack the Pony! Black Books! The Brittas Empire! Etc! etc!) together with a bunch of smug, irritating men who are probably attractive if you a 30something PR executive called Cornelia who lives in Chiswick. The main source of so called amusement is that people do silly walks and pull faces while dressed up as doctors and nurses and – omg you won’t believe this – sometimes the camera speeds up and slows down so they are doing the silly walk at the wrong speed. While this is going on there is a rubbish soundtrack of trip hop, because nothing says comedy like a dinner party in 1993.

I really don’t know what they were thinking of making one series, let alone doing another one. Just in case you had forgotten that the series is so teeth grindingly irritating, the adverts on TV do a very good job reminding you – you see the cast members are dressed as ballerinas! Even the men! For no reason! That doesn’t smack of “forced wackiness for the sake of it” at all, does it? “New Green Wing – Nearly Ready.” Nearly ready to annoy the hell out of me without even watching it, more like.