I was tucking in my two-year-old,” said user UnfortunateBirthMark. “He said ‘Goodbye dad.’ I said, ‘No we say good night.’ He said, ‘I know. But this time it’s goodbye.
If Daft Punk’s Get Lucky, which is poised to storm the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, recalls the groove and glitter of disco-funk pioneers Chic, that should be no surprise, because the man who wrote and played its infectious riff is Chic’s guitarist and producer Nile Rodgers.
Was she faking it on BGT? Does Cowell have the nerve to puppetmaster the performers? Was this all a giant conspiracy? Are any of us expected to ever believe anything we see ever again?
I’m not stupid - obviously I know things will have changed when the cast arrive back on my telly. Janice is living in 2013 now - she’s not going to be running around shouting ‘OH. MY. GOD’ all the time when she could save precious milliseconds with an ‘O.M.G’.
Comedy panel shows have been around since 700BC. They are popular, cheap and have filled a huge chunk of primetime previously given over to … well, no one can remember what came before, but … anyway. They’re not without their critics, who point out the fact that they simply employ the same 10 men (and one woman) over and over again in schedule-swamping ubiquity.








