Many people like to try and reinvent themselves at the start of a New Year. But sadly, the people at Channel 5 don’t seem to have heard of “New Year, New You.”
In fact, New Year’s Eve is basically a day of the 1950s.
Let’s be honest, it’ll be mostly shit.
But, let’s also try and be positive, it may now all be that bad.
I’ve tried to get together a list of the stuff which I think will be worth watching out for, the stuff you should be watching if you’re not, and compiled them into a sort of “list”.
Only Connect – BBC Four (moving to BBC Two) – This may look boring as hell, and also as difficult as trying to pull a nipple off, but it is actually brilliant. Watch an episode and I promise you it’ll intrigue you enough to watch the next episode on iPlayer, you have to find connections between seemingly unrelated objects. This is the hardest episode ever produced and is available on YouTube. You’ll also see how unbelievably British the whole affair is.
If you don’t get a single question right in that whole episode, don’t worry, no-one does. But isn’t it relaxing to watch, what with it’s nice music and lack of audience? I can’t stop watching it. The first few episodes of every series usually has a few easy questions and then you feel AMAZING having watched it and got a few right. So yeah.
Top Gear – BBC Two – This will invariably return, it always does. Despite it being presented by an idiot and his two much nicer friends, it’s always enjoyable to watch. I find myself increasingly wanting to watch the special episodes these days, and I’m not so bothered about the normal episodes. Judging by Idris Elba hosting a number of shows recently on BBC Two about Motor Racing, it looks like he’s up to take Clarkson’s job upon his eventual leaving of the show. This would make it actually perfect. In case you hadn’t gathered, I dislike Clarkson intensely.
Big Brother – Channel 5 – Am I the only one who stopped watching this once it moved to Channel 5? I actually stopped watching it before then. It’s apparently still around, though.
Sherlock – BBC One – This is a “modern” programme even my parents like (and that is seriously saying something, they hate most things they see), and I love it too. Returns early January, I can’t wait. Presumably he’ll actually be alive this series, I mean, he did die at the end of the last series and all that, unless they’ve got a morbid sense of humour I presume he faked his own death.
Trucks and Christmas clearly go together like, well, nothing. So what better way than to celebrate Christmas Eve than by watching not one, but two festive themed episodes of Eddie Stobart. Yes, it’s all about the trucks on Channel 5 this Christmas.