Backwards In High Heels

Sell It To Me Baby

Sunsilk have teamed up with Girls Aloud, the girl group borne of one of the reality talent shows a few years back now. They gone on to be very successful, good on them. They have all become preened to within an inch of their lives and one even reached the holy grail *angelic herald* of marrying a footballer.

So their glamorous persona is well fitted to sell shampoo. What better way to connect with young women and those all important tweenagers with whom they share so much, well a lack of body hair at least.

So here is the advert. If you watch it I think the creator is going for this story board.

1 Girls Aloud spot average girl with above average hair on the street
2 Girls Aloud take average girl and give her a makeover to become one of them
3 Newly made over girl can’t sing, in fact she sounds like a man. The hilarity.
4 So average girl is sent packing but with her wonderful new look it’s just a minute before a limo pulls up because Sunsilk makes things happen.

But I tend to see it more as

1 Girls Aloud spot a nicely turned out average girl with nice hair on the street
2 Girls Aloud give average girl a makeover so she too can look like a pneumatic tarty doll
3 Newly made over girl can’t sing – since when has this been an issue in girl and boy bands?
4 Regardless made over girl is put back on the street in her Girls Aloud outfit as another limo pulls up and I think it just cuts out before a dirty old tycoon leans out the window and asks how much for a hand job.

Okay so I don’t have a career in advertising ahead of me…or do I?

RFTP Series Two Starts Tonight!

That's right folks, Recorded For Training Purposes starts its second series tonight 11pm on Radio 4.

If that is beyond your bedtime don't forget for the week after you can use listen again to hear it at your pleasure.  And pleasure it will be!

It's my birthday today and I have overdosed on sugary things so staying up late may not be a problem for me tonight....

Still some remaining programmes to record for this series so better go and get writing and hope I can make the edit!

Ruddy Hell It's Promising!

Harry Enfield's comedy (especially Harry Enfield and Chums) have very fond memories for me and certainly shaped my ideal of the sketch show. So I couldn't wait to tune in last Friday for the first in a new series Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul which reunited Harry with the wonderful Paul Whitehouse after a long break from our screens. 

I'll admit to sitting down to watch with a sense of trepidation as it had a lot to live up to, not least subjective memory nostalgia. It stood up very well - certainly enough to have me tuning in tomorrow night (BBC1 9.30pm) and recommending you do the same. Paul Whitehouse has proven himself an amazing performer in a range of comic styles but as a sketch actor he is practically unsurpassed.

Last week's highlight for me was the Bono and Edge skit...

Of course Bono can end world poverty, he's certainly ended his own and I fully welcome a multi millionaire, who doesn't live in his own country for tax benefits, laying the guilt on we mere wage slaves with overdrafts . "Look at us being so humble" - Enfield and Whitehouse I tip my hat to you!

And I can't resist the nostalgia trip. From past sketches the pastiche of the 40s and 50s public information films remain one of my firm favourites and who can forget this one...

All very inspiring, which is what my writing needs at the moment!