'NAFF AND STAGED'
Jim Davidson slams revamped Generation Game and brands show an ‘insult’
EX-GENERATION Game host Jim Davidson has slammed the revamped show as 'naff', 'staged' and 'an insult to Brucie'.
The comic, 64, retweeted several criticisms of the new look show, including one which read: "What a shame...RIP."
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When a fan probed him on who was presenting the reboot he replied "two women", referring to former Bake Off hosts Mel and Sue.
Jim reposted a comment saying: "#TheGenerationGame looks staged and all the naffs innuendos, bring back @JimDOfficial or how about... @RealBobMortimer? @BBCOne."
The former Big Brother contestant and popular comedian took over hosting the classic BBC show from Bruce Forsyth in 1995 until 2003.
The reboot has suffered a conveyor belt of gaffes leading to its debut.
And the latest blunder in the show’s car-crash revival has proved just how few new ideas show bosses have.
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Producers recycled a section starring Northern comic Johnny Vegas from the show’s 2005 outing, hosted by Graham Norton, and used it almost like for like on Sunday.
Johnny taught contestants how to make a pottery teapot in the Make That segment in scenes almost identical to the show’s last outing 13 years ago.
The copycat appearance is the latest blow for the doomed game show, which for some reason also introduced a celebrity panel.
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Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins front rebooted version of Bruce Forsyth's The Generation Game
The Sun told last week how bosses had been forced to use canned laughter to boost the audience’s reactions after gags by hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins fell flat.
It came after the BBC, which had originally booked comic Miranda Hart to front the show, halved the number of episodes from four to two as a result of a lack of quality content to air.
A TV source said: “Producers loved the 2005 pottery class and hoped viewers wouldn’t notice them slipping it back in.
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Viewers slating reboot
FANS were quick to express their views.
Viewer David Riddell said on Twitter: “Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game was brilliant. The current version bears no comparison. Awful.”
Another, Peter Quinn, called it “a shadow of its former self”.
New hosts Mel and Sue also failed to impress.
Mark Pittam tweeted: “Oh dear God, the two most unfunny people hosting the new show. You could have done better.” And the canned laughter added to prop up their gags was also a turn-off.
One viewer said: “Can someone turn off the canned laughter – it’s not an episode of Friends.”
That would have been a much better watch.
“It’s been very hard to find genuinely funny moments to put in the programme and Johnny was definitely one they could bank on.
“The whole production has been a struggle and bosses are quite frankly looking forward to the whole thing being over next week.”
In an exclusive interview in February one former host, Jim Davidson, slated the Great British Bake Off pair’s casting.
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On Mel and Sue, who interview guests including Martin Kemp, Gemma Collins and James Argent, Jim said: “They’re not right, they won’t know how to ad-lib.
"They’re not there to teach them how to bake a f***ing cake.”
Judging by the performance, I doubt they’d even manage that.
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