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Ben DowellA House in History
Radio 4, 11.30pmWill Farrell and Ben Rowse,
above, the creative team
behind Petrichor, the
(rather good) spoof online
comedy about a group of
people haplessly making a
short film, have turned their
satirical attention to reality
TV shows. The fictional A
House in History follows
one family as they live in a
1940s house to experience
all the wartime privations
(in a manner not unlike
Channel 4’s The 1940s
House from 2001).
Unfortunately, the show is
also hugely over-budget and
the producers desperately
need to ensure that the
family fail to complete the
six weeks in the house that
would win them £100,000.
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsI
f you hadn’t heard of Wim Hof,
you’d have been forgiven for
thinking that BBC1 had finally
come up with a bold new spoof.
Perhaps Will Ferrell in disguise —
doing martial arts poses atop a clifftop
in a woolly kaftan. After an hour of
Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof, I’m
not wholly convinced that he isn’t. The
62-year-old “Iceman” kept arriving in
slow motion, intoning, “I do not feel
the cold, I feel its power!” while staring
with extreme intensity into the camera.He was presented as a motivational
madman, and certainly not one to
undersell himself. Imagine introducing
yourself to people like this: “I did the
world-record swimming horizontally
under the ice! I run barefoot
half-marathons through the snow! I go
up Mount Everest through the death
zone in nothing BUT MY SHORTS!”
He’d be a fascinating party guest. Or
would he? Stories of icy heroics are
one thing, but you suspect he’d soon
be throwing ice over himself while
doing one-armed press-ups in a thong.
Such an individual is born for a TV
show, of course. In fact, he was pretty
much the only thing making Freeze
the Fear worthwhile. For now you will
know how to take “ownership of the
power of your own mind”. Otherwise
this was just the latest example of
celebrities looking terrified before
endurance challenges (see also I’m a
Celebrity... , SAS: Who Dares Wins etc).
They were in the Italian Alps, the first
task being to jump into an iced-over
lake in their swimwear. “No way!”
said one celebrity, aghast, as if the
challenge was some kind of surprise.
This sequence was the best bit, even
though it was just watching people
jumping into cold water. One by one,
Gabby Logan, Alfie Boe and the rest
plunged into the freezing hole —
always in slow motion — to emerge
barely able to breathe before
whooping with endorphin-floodedeuphoria. Hof watched on, yelling
like a bear, while out of shot nervous
medics no doubt hovered, holding
defibrillator pads.
Without Hof, this show would be
as flimsy as glazed ice. With him, it’s
inspirational — you’ll want to prepare
an ice bath straight afterwards.
Channel 4 had a double bill of
comedy, old and new. First up, the
returning Derry Girls. This was as fast
and funny as ever, despite the first half
being an extended panic attack as the
girls melted about their GCSE results.
But what was this... Liam Neeson was
here too, in an amusing cameo as a
glowering chief constable. That has
to be as triumphantly Northern Irish
as this already adored series can get.
Then the brand new one,
Hullraisers, which blasted out of the
blocks fully formed, no scene-setting
necessary. The first five minutes were
— a rarity, this — laugh out loud, as
we met Toni, Rana and Paula, three
lairy women banging on, in strong
Hull accents, about being out on the
lash, or missing being on the lash.
That may sound dubious, but
Hullraisers is about clinging to the
fun and freedom that dwindles when
toddlers come along and ruin the
party, and is like a northern riposte to
Motherland. Just far earthier and more
hungover. And further evidence of
how Channel 4 does, and has always
done, new comedy so well.The Iceman (and terrified celebrities) cometh
PETE DADDS/BBCJames
Jackson
TV review
Derry Girls/Hullraisers
Channel 4
{{{{(Freeze the Fear with
Wim Hof
BBC1
{{(((Wim Hof brought his brand of sub-zero motivation to BBC1