The Wheel

Michael McIntyre has long been searching for other projects besides being a venue filling stand-up comedian.

Being a talent show judge didn't work, neither did being a chat-show host, so the BBC have clearly thought in their wisdom that being a game-show host might be more up his street. He even came up with the format...great.

This isn't a bad show, it's an opportunity to use the seemingly in vogue idea of celebs (cough cough) helping members of the public to win 'big money', but isn't up there with the best game-shows.

It's done well for the BBC so far, so I imagine they'll continue to milk it.

Its a good entertaining show. The host is funny and the vibe of the show.is pretty cool.

This bit of fluff is makes reasonable entertainment that I, my mother and grandmother can enjoy.

Macintyre can be a bit much, but he is perfectly cast here, as our guide where responds impeccably to the apparently not funny things the contestants say.

The tone is bombastic and deliberately silly which you just have to be in the mood for. They don't waste time though: there's always someone I have heard of in the celebrity line-up and the questions are usually pretty gettable but of course there is so much I don't know!

The random element of the contestants casts a shadow over the show. Maybe they could have a fastest finger type thing?

It gives irritating (and common) possibility of someone raising all the money themselves and then someone else just takes it at the last.

Often they greedily try and double it and I so want to see them lose everything.

Sentimental and low-brow, sometimes that is just what the doctor ordered.

I get a masochistic joy at seeing the remarkable ignorance of celebrities and the general public.

So, first off I like McIntyre and enjoy the show but BBC are repeating this 8 months after it was first aired, fair enough if it was at midnight but PRIME TIME SATURDAY NIGHT while continuing to take £13.25 a month off us? They're having a giraffe! Evidently I have to write more as it's too short. Ok, so the concept of the contestant wheel is rather flawed, they all need to come up in turn, I remember one show when one of them didn't even get up once! And others where the same contestant came up time after time.

The rest of the show is funny and McIntyre is funny and quite spontaneous, even if it is edited.

The majority of this show is just watching minor celebrities spinning on a wheel.if it wasn't for that waste of time you could condense this down to about 11 minutes.

By the end of the show it made me cringe every time I heard - Spin the wheel...