Unwrapped episode downloads Unwrapped uncovers behind-the-scenes details on classic American foods. Its one of my best tv series in food network programs. This show is airing successfully….

I just love to watch this show.

Oddly enough, even though Molly seems to regard the Hey Hey experience positively, I think that Humdrum at first seemed one of the best things that could happen to the show, but ultimately probably had a lot to do with my disillusionment from it. It just felt like it increasingly became about who could do the best job of blowing Molly's segment (easy there, double entendre fans). The problem was that I looked forward to Humdrum as one of the main things that I wanted to see in the show (potentially before switching channels, which probably means that the rest of the show had already become a bit laboured for me), and watching him being made fun of and battling to get what he wanted done, however he might have been “in on it” (his frustration on air certainly seemed quite real at times) just stopped being worth the wait.

By the way, I have been “Richardsing” too. If you promise to break the shrink wrap and watch some of “The Wire” this week then so will I, John.

Initially it kept some of the spontaneity when it moved to the
Saturday night slot. But Red Faces suffered from being a weekly thing, rather than being an irregular event. And as the show went on, it was obviously becoming more structured and controlled. Segments A, B, & C all had to be fitted in. None of this still doing the first segment an hour and a half in because you're all mucking about too much to finish it. The segments were more important than the fun.

I still have the interview where Darryl was talking to Patrick Stewart and says at the end 'well, eight and a half minutes have just flown.' Gone was the show where if it was a great and fun interview they could keep going. Gone was the show where, if Stewart was having a good time he could hang about and watch from the sidelines or get involved.

Patrick Stewart was interviewed by Andrew Denton on his TV show (I think it was on 7) the same week. And he hung around because he was enjoying the interview, and so we ended up with Tom Jones being questioned by both Denton and Stewart. Then Patrick and Tom started joking around, Andrew joined in, and it was a fabulous bit of TV. I don't think I watched another Hey Hey after that, because I suddenly realised just how little I enjoyed it. This was what it used to be like, and it wasn't any more.

I'll watch the specials, and I genuinely wish them all the best, but if they want to go back to the core of what made the show a lasting success to begin with, I honestly think they need to be willing to drop the script and just get on with enjoying themselves. That's what made Hey Hey work, not audiences, not Plucka Duck, just a bunch of mates mucking about, and we were all invited.