Daisy, Daisy

Fish out of water Daisy Donovan attempts to change her life by getting involved with various groups or styles. These include millionaires, rappers, motivational speakers, beauty pageants, pimps and heavy metal rock bands.

Daisy Donovan is quite the little smart a*se! She started growing in stature on the 11o'clock show a few years back and has carved out a sarcastic niche for herself. With `Daisy, Daisy' she starts to go down the road of Louis Theroux of shadowing her subjects, treating them seriously to their face but really taking the mick out of them. However Daisy is a little more cruel with her style – and tends to play it for laughs. Where Louis can be serious, playful or genuinely interested, Daisy can only take the p*ss – even where it's maybe not the best way to go.

And that's the problem – Daisy can't see anything past the opportunity for comedy even if the subject material is actually quite bad. With Louis you felt he worked it in such a way that the subject(s) either left themselves open to being laughed at or judged for what they are – Louis didn't need to do much work it seemed. That's why he worked well when he was with porn actors (comedy and depressing), UFO watchers (funny), celebrities (a mix) or south African racists (downright scary!). However Daisy manages to force comedy in all situations – and that's fine when it's not a serious subject (motivational speaking or following a nu-metal rock band) but not when her subject has a darker side.

For example she tries to become a US pimp – this produces some humour but really she can't look seriously at the darker side of this business. This leaves the show hollow and one-dimensional. Hence I feel that for a short series she can hold together an amusing show – but she can't go to the deeper level and produce something better.

Overall Daisy, Daisy is funny if not original – it's basically Louis Theroux for the MTV generation.

Actually, I've caught some episodes of the TV series "Daisy Daisy" and don't find them as bad as some of your other reviewers seem to think. I wouldn't necessarily say that she was 'vacuous' just very pertinent in her delivery of black comedy and wryly observed commentary on the contemporary mores in society which after all do in most cases need to be taken with a pinch of salt, at the very least, blown out of the water, at best. As example I am looking at the shows she did in the good Le USA on pageantry (how to be a teen beauty queen) and general satire on the American way of life in general and American people's basic ignorance of much that is out of their own sphere.( "Hello, is that near Scotchland?") It is biting and very wry and yes she takes the p***, but for god's sake someone needs to. I found the American obsession with the 'perfect body' ,obsession with plastic surgery and the way that American mothers groom their young girls for 'showbiz ' and the celebrity lifestyle quite sickening, so I say good luck, Daisy, and keep up the good work.

Daisy Donovan is an extremely beautiful young woman and, err, that's about it really. I guess having a successful showbiz mum helped her get her pretty little feet in the door, but so what? She really is a very pale imitation of the Louis Theroux formula here; much better looking, but equally less talented. I couldn't help comparing the 2. They certainly both take the p*** but i always got the feeling Louis was genuinely interested in his 'subjects'. Daisy simply uses them. She's just as forgettable in "Coupling", a blisteringly awful British version of "Friends". I'm sure that in the near future when her girlish face "matures" she'll never be heard of again. Sorry Daisy, you're just not very good.