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David Liddiment did well to resign when he did. Otherwise he may well have been tarred and feathered for I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! (ITV), the tackiest, tattiest, cheapest old cobblers his channel has offered us in a long time. Yes, it's worse than Crossroads - words that TV critics have been aching to type all year. Finally we are liberated from our shackles and can stamp joyously on this feeble programme, while taking care to watch every last second of it. Well, you wouldn't want to miss anything, would you?
I'm A Celebrity ... takes the Survivor format, adds a soupcon of Celebrity Big Brother and, I suspect, pays format fees to neither, for this masquerades as an original programme. Ant and Dec are our hosts, live by satellite from the rainforests of northern Australia. In an ideal world, of course, they would be left there to be eaten by crocodiles - and it's just possible that this is the brilliant twist that will bring the series to an end and win it a dozen or so Baftas. Instead the show drops eight other ,celebrities' into this wild and dangerous territory and plays silly Survivor-type...