PREVIEW – MIKE WARD: Sure, it is impressed by Mortimer and Whitehouse, however overlook that and luxuriate in nice firm, gorgeous countryside and joyous birds.
TV skilled Mike Ward picks up the distant management as soon as once more. (Picture: Specific)
Sam & Ade Go Birding, 5, 8pm
It strikes me that an terrible lot of TV exhibits owe their existence to exhibits which have come earlier than. For instance, would we ever have had Cooking With The Stars if we hadn’t had Celeb MasterChef, or DNA Journey if Who Do You Suppose You Are hadn’t occurred? And would ITV’s Dancing on Ice have ever come to be, had it not been for the success of BBC1’s Dancing On A Dance Flooring So I’ve Much less Probability Of Breaking My Neck?
The reply, in every case, is: “No, I suppose we would not, Mike. Thanks for pointing that out. The place would we be with out your penetrating perception?” And whereas there isn’t any should be so sarcastic, I am glad we agree on this.
It means we’ll most likely really feel a lot the identical about this new present tonight on 5. Particularly, the truth that it owes rather a lot to Mortimer And Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, the one the place comedy friends Bob and Paul go to gorgeous areas, forged their traces into the water and hope to catch extra than simply sewage.
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Sam & Ade Go Birding is ‘a pleasure to spend time with’. (Picture: Charles Fearn / Channel 5)
Sam and Ade — regardless of sounding like an disagreeable fizzy drink while you say that out loud — are Sam West, from All Creatures Nice and Small, and Ade Edmondson, who to me will all the time be mad Vyvyan from The Younger Ones, eternally placing his DM boot by way of the TV display screen, very similar to I nonetheless do myself most evenings.
Simply as Paul Whitehouse is the seasoned angler, hoping Bob will come to share his ardour, Sam is a lifelong birdwatcher, trying to encourage clueless pal Ade. Add to this the truth that each males listed below are of a sure age, that male companionship is a operating theme all through, even issue within the nature of the picnic preparations, and we have now two uncannily comparable exhibits.
And guess what? I couldn’t give two hoots, or certainly every other form of fowl sound. Sam and Ade’s is gorgeous in its personal proper. When you realise they don’t seem to be attempting to do a Bob and Paul, that they’re content material in their very own pores and skin, then they seem to be a pleasure to spend time with.
The truth is, there’s one facet of their present that I even choose. Specifically, that the birds are left in peace. My least favorite bit on the fishing present is the place Bob and Paul catch the poor fish. Does that make me a wuss? Definitely not! What it makes me is a first-class hypocrite, the way in which it places me off my cod and chips.
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