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Daily Mail, Wednesday, March 4, 2020^Auntie finds ignorance is bliss
in the world of ‘yoof’ YouTubers
Wicked send-up of the night:
Do the Royal Family ever peek at
their parodies on The Windsors
(C4), I wonder? I can’t imagine
Prince Charles sees the funny
side. But perhaps Fergie secretly
enjoys Katy Wix’s portrayal of
her as a vodka-guzzling lush.M
y taxi driver in
Bristol last week
gave me a side-
ways look, as if i
were mad, when i
asked which tV programmes
he enjoyed. He didn’t own a
television, he said. He had
never owned a television, and
he didn’t know anyone his
age who did.
‘ M y p a r e n t s w a t c h t V, ’ h e
conceded. ‘it’s for old people, innit,
like you. No offence.’
None taken. an Ofcom report last
October revealed that more than
half of young Britons aged 16-24
did not watch a single minute of
a n y B B C p r o g r a m m e i n t h e
preceding week — neither on live
tV nor on catch-up via iPlayer.
the youth driving the Uber cab
admitted he did watch movies
sometimes: ‘My uncle, he’s got
Netflix, right. and i know his pass-
word.’ But most of his screen time,
he said, was devoted to youtube.
M a n y Di y b r o a d c a s t e r s o n
youtube, the free video channel
owned by Google, attract audiences
that the Beeb hasn’t dreamed of
for decades. Eight-year-old Ryan
Kaji from texas, for instance,
reviews toys: 24.2 million people
have signed up to watch his
daily chatterings.
Compare that with the figures for
BBC1’s biggest hit in years, the
Christmas edition of Gavin andStacey, which sent auntie into
ecstasies by netting 17.1 million —
over seven million fewer viewers.
H o w c a n t h e C o r p o r a t i o n
compete? By hiring youtube stars
and viewers to present a show,
perhaps. Four of them, all in that
elusive 16-25 age bracket, were
sent to Los angeles to learn about
the cosmetics industry in Beauty
Laid Bare (BBC1).
all four were stilted, awkward
personalities, who recited their
lines like they were reading them
off the label on a box of make-up.
the links between segments,
featuring pretend conversations
i n t h e b a c k o f a l i m o , w e r e
excruciating. But these young
people were not pretending to be
polished performers. Slick patter
went out with Radio 1 DJs.
the foursome were sent to a cos-
metics company called ColourPop,
whose factory churned out low-cost
lipsticks in neon plastic hues for
the teen market. they had some
prewritten questions: one asked
whether staff on the production
line were paid minimum wage.
a hovering executive explained
this question made the companyBeauty Laid Bare HHIII
Back In Time For The Corner Shop HHHHIChristopher
stevens
last night’s tv
‘uncomfortable’. another of the
amateur presenters wondered if
the glitter in their lipsticks was
biodegradable. ‘Maybe don’t
answer this!’ called out the exec.
afterwards, 25-year-old Casey
explained that it was probably
better if we didn’t know the
facts. ‘We all eat food — if we
knew exactly where our foodcame from and what was in it,
we’d eat nothing. Sometimes
ignorance is bliss.’ if that’s true,
Casey was blissed out.
the ardern family behind the
counter in the grocery store on
Back In Time For The Corner Shop
(BBC2) were much more natural
in front of the camera. Mum Jo,
in particular, is a star, with hersleeves rolled up as she churns
ice cream in a barrel or wields a
mallet and chisel to split a block
o f i c e , t h e w a y S h e f f i e l d
shopkeepers did 100 years ago.
a s a l w a y s , t h i s s e r i e s i s
peppered with amusing facts.
Who could have guessed that, in
the era before refrigerators,
Britain’s ice was shipped over
from Norwegian lakes?
Or that in the thirties a craze
swept the country for one-armed
bandits? One local, 88-year-old
Reg, was old enough to remem-
ber that... and the bomb that
dropped in his family’s back yard
during the Blitz. By a miracle, it
didn’t go off.
you won’t meet many like Reg
on youtube.TELEVISION
Tommy, who weighs 23 stone and is
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KaTe DrummonD stars as desperate
mother Claire, who leads a frantic search
when her daughter fails to come home
after a night out with her basketball team.
Suspecting that the team know more than
they’re letting on, Claire is shocked when
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ii drama tells the
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objector Desmond
Doss (andrew
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See Critics’ Choice.
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6 .00 home and Away (AD,R,HD)
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6 .30 5 news tonight (HD)7.00 secrets of the Royal palaces
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(Followed by 5 News Update)8 .00 health foods: Are they a con?
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(Followed by 5 News Update)
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Part one of two. The popularity
of age-gap relationships among
the super-rich, meeting six
millionaire couples who are
decades apart, as well as two
millionaires looking for love.1 1.05 the chocolate challenge
with the hairy Bikers (HD)
The competition heats up as the
semi-final gets under way, and
the four remaining chocolatiers
are tasked with creating their
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The Hotel Inspector: Checking In,
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12.05am Killing Eve. 12.45 Killing Eve. 1.30 BBC News.
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