TV I joined RI:SE v2 at about 8’oclock this morning. The usually verbose Edith Bowman seemed tongue tied in the face of Iain Lee flying off with his usual stream of consciousness. And we were in the middle of a jokey newspaper review. Apart from the trappings of a north London flat, someone seemed to have given ‘The Big Breakfast’ another chance. But this was different – you didn’t want to rip you arm off and throw it at the television. You were actually enjoying it. It was fluff, but enjoyable fluff. Now I’ve always been a fan of Lee, despite his Ross from ‘Friends’ like overpronounciation of every – single – word. Bowman was the best thing about the previous line up. Granted they were pissing in the wind as the studio audience looked visibly bored to tears, but it looked to have legs maybe. In any case it was about as good on its first morning as RI:SE v1 was in its final week.
Then a funny thing happened. In the final half hour it mutated into a sort of 'Early Lunch' with Mel and Sue who looked like they’d been kidnapped in a time machine from the final episode of the ‘Late Lunch’ and dumped again in front of the camera. And at 8:30 in the morning, despite a few technical hitches they were being, lovable and funny and self-deprecating about their bread adverts (Mel’s fault apparently. I’ve really missed these two being on television in chat show capacity and it’s going to be fun watching them capture a new generation of students. And bless them they even managed to fit in a Doctor Who reference. I videoed the end to watch when I got in from work. This is going to be good. And ‘The Guardian’ have even given them a good review …
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