UK TV

Well, Jamie Oliver may have been banned from filming in any schools in LA, but that’s not something that’s happening to him over here. He’s about – as in March time – going to launch a new Channel 4 series called Jamie’s Dream School, in which he gets a bunch of famous people to teach subjects to kids who are a bit bored or something. 

Among the teachers are Daley Thompson, Simon Callow, Ellen MacArthur, David Starkey, Alastair Campbell, Robert Winston, Alvin Hall, Tinchy Stryder, Dominic West, Mary Beard, Jazzie B, Rankin, Nora Sands, Cherie Blair, Rolf Harris, Andrew Motion and David Hempleman-Adams. That actually sounds quite fun.

Anyway, here’s the trailer, with music composed especially by Orbital.

So Jason Gardiner, in case you don’t know, is one of the judges on ITV’s Dancing on Ice. He’s basically got the Simon Cowell role of bluntly telling people they’re rubbish – usually because they are. In case you weren’t watching on Sunday, he had a bit of a fight with one of the former judges, Karen Barber, who is now the dancing coach for the contestants:

Ooh, nasty, hey? What I find odd is that Jason Gardiner was the “culture gay” on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (UK) – the nice one, in other words. How versatile – or is it MPD? And why did some producer somewhere at ITV think “You know what – let’s have him as Mr Nasty”?