Documentaries are the focus for this weeks television, starting with Inside the Institute (Monday), a fly-on-the-wall look at Warrington’s Torben Piechnik Institute. This maverick scientific powerhouse have researched many varied areas; from banana-penised men and Blind-Duh-Date Syndrome, to flying pigs and peggy widges.
This week’s episode follows institute head Dr. Glen Medeiros and his quest to link missing socks to the fractal nature of the universe. It’s pretty technical stuff, only by the fact that Dr. Medeiros has such a lovely singing voice. Also watch out for the touching scene when the Doc visits long-term patient “Mr Banana-Penis” in his Devon retreat. It goes to show that he is a great man as well as a great scientist.
Those who remember Celebrity Chip Shop will be shocked to see the blatant plagiarism of Celeb Kebab House (every bloody night). The format is exactly the same, two teams of “celebrities” will run rival fast food outlets, with the winners being the ones who make the most profit. As the first episode is yet to air it’s hard to comment, but looking at some the contestants we can take a wild guess; the guy off the “Astonish” infomercial from the early 90′s, a woman who won a competition to meet Take That backstage at a concert, someone who once auditioned for boy band “A1″, Jeremy Spake’s next-door neighbour and Edd The Duck. The only possible redemption comes in the form of radio superstar Dave “The Rave” Burley.
It’s going to be rubbish but we’ll all end up watching it anyway.
