A bunch of bananas to the BBC for kicking off the broadcasters’ festive drinks in style at Somerset House in London on Wednesday night.
After director of television Danny Cohen’s barnstorming speech, the main topics of conversation were the festive edition of Top Gear and the reinvention of The Generation Game.
The former is still being edited, carefully Monkey assumes, but will feature the local difficulties in Argentina over the H982 FKL numberplate at the end of the show.
The Guardian revealed in August that Miranda Hart was working with the Beeb on a modern version of Bruce Forsyth’s old vehicle. BBC1’s controller, Charlotte Moore, said the show was still in development and that viewers would have to wait and see whether any of the classic Generation Game features, such as the conveyor belt, are in it.
When asked if it will be called The Generation Game - or The Next Generation Game, as one wag put it - she said that was still to be decided.
No details yet either about her reported search for Saturday night hits, though there have been suggestions that Chris Evans and Zoë Ball are in the frame for pilot shows. Fire up the DeLorean, it’s like televisual Back to the Future.
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