Am I in the minority, being agog at the national pastime of gaping at Big Brother and its generally low-life exhibits?
You can see Best Bitch in Show by tuning in just once a year to Crufts (20,000 dogs, 170 types).
But, chances are, most of the bitches at Crufts will have breeding, largely lacking at Maison Grand Frere, where the calibre of certain female contestants is an insult to dogs.
In encountered BB but once en route to David Attenborough and Blue Planet, where the stars of the show were molluscs of considerably more instinctive intelligence than the Channel 4 inmates.
Not that I can claim the high cultural ground this week, having spent three hours of my finite existence reviewing Mrs Brown Rides Again at the Empire.
Producer, director, writer and star actor Brendan O'Carroll lacks only one component in his home-spun team of regulars: a proof-reader.
In the glossy (and presumably expensive) souvenir programme, his namesake character appears 25 times as Mrs BrownE and more than 30 times as Mrs Brown.
So it's make you mind up time, Brendan. Is it Brown with an E or without?
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