Unmissable show?
I still think there’s quite a lot of TV snobbery around things like First Dates, but I find it really amazing. And any crime drama that’s on. Have you seen The Following? It makes no sense! I like all sorts of really, really tacky TV, maybe for the wrong reasons.
Earliest TV memory?
My dad used to be an actor, and I remember that he was in a really terrifying episode of Jonathan Creek. My parents stupidly let me watch it, and I was completely terrified. I found the whole thing quite difficult to fathom. The last thing my dad acted in was the music video for Superstylin’ by Groove Armada. His acting career went pretty downhill.
Bring back…
SMTV Live. Those Saturday morning shows – at the time you didn’t feel like anything’s going over your head, but if you go online and search for the best Wonkey Donkey moments, you see how rude Ant and Dec are being to these kids over the phone. The writing in SMTV was beyond its time. Does Saturday morning kids’ TV even exist any more?
TV turn-off?
The Big Bang Theory. That show bothers me to my core. My ex-boyfriend would always go: “Big Bang Theory’s funny,” and I’d think, “Who are you?” If people find that show funny it makes me question whether I should keep them in my life. I went on to break up with that boyfriend and I think that him liking Big Bang Theory was a contributing factor, honestly.
Pitch us a TV show…
I’m obsessed with the nature of celebrity in the age of the internet, because we’re subconsciously filling our brains with all this stuff. I think it encourages a really bizarre part of your brain. It’s a really interesting topic and I think that Amanda Bynes, Justin Bieber and all these other people who have had public meltdowns, for a journalist to root around in their brains maybe uncomfortable viewing but it would definitely be interesting.
Billie will be starring in World Of Weird, coming soon to Channel 4
