Anyone know why Five is bringing back classic 70s sports show Superstars?
Not only has BBC1 tried it and failed – perhaps because they had Johnny Vaughn as the main host and he's best at armchair comedy – they're bringing it back and messing around with the format. This time it's going to be teams (three men and one woman in each).
Anyone going to watch it? Anyone got any ideas about why they're bringing it back?
June 24, 2008 | Reply
Channel 5 is the king of cheese tv... I mean this is a channel who ran Fort Boyard for 4 series.. (apparently.. I mean I don't know or anything....?!) I am constantly amazed when the show something which is NOT total shash.. this is perfect teatime family fodder.. although I am holding out for a re-make of Junior Kick start! (think of the music).
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3J9uOmWuKr0
June 25, 2008 | Reply
They're bringing it back because of the nostalgia factor, but it won't work because it can't be the same programme. Original Superstars was brilliant because it was current top sportsmen competing and making complete tits of themselves (Kevin Keegan falling off the bike, that cheating bastard Jody Schecter putting oil on his soles in the gym tests so he could do faster squat thrusts) — and the following week Keegan would be turning out for Liverpool and Schecter would be trying to drive someone off the track in Monza. You couldn't do that these days, because no top sportsman would risk getting injured doing something trivial.
(Unless you're Rio Ferdinand, and you knacker your ankles by putting your feet up to play video games.)
So they're only going to be able to use retired sportspeople, and even then, they can't get many of them, so they have to keep using the same ones. Which means this is Dad TV, so it's competing with Top Gear, so it's doomed.
June 25, 2008 | Reply
Anything competing with Top Gear should be doomed.