Boxing Clever: 'Celebs Go Dating' doesn't contain any celebs, Adam Curtis returns

"The narration on this is like one of those annoying JML videos in a hardware store, trying to interest you in a next-generation mop."

Anna Williamson, TV presenter and relationship coach on All4’s Celebs Go Dating. Pic: Ian West/PA.

I think we’re running out of telly. The people who make TV shows have tried to gloss over it with a range of almost identical reality shows.

RTÉ seems to be focused on shows where former sports stars shout at ordinary people for not being competitive enough. Channel 4 likes dating and z-list celebs. Netflix reckons we’ll never get enough of grisly true-crime mini-series. I reckon they’re wrong. I was going to watch Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, I even had it up on my phone, ready to go, but I just couldn’t be bothered. I need something positive at the moment and the unending depravity of my species isn’t working for me right now.