Yes another programme all about the celebrity
This isn't really a programme about Rick Stein's Cornwall. It's a programme about Cornwall's Rick Stein.
This isn't necessarily a pop at Rick, who I am sure is an amiable sort of fellow, but every time you want to see lovely Cornwall, up he pops to get in the way.
In this he follows a long, long, line of celebrity-obsessed television productions. As if the world somehow revolved around the 0.1% of that demographic and as if they are the arbiters of anything and everything that's interesting about places.
Cornwall is a fantastic county. It would be even better if the 'me, me, me' brigade just stepped aside for a bit and allowed the rest of us to see it, in all its glory. Without someone's fizzog in the way.
This isn't necessarily a pop at Rick, who I am sure is an amiable sort of fellow, but every time you want to see lovely Cornwall, up he pops to get in the way.
In this he follows a long, long, line of celebrity-obsessed television productions. As if the world somehow revolved around the 0.1% of that demographic and as if they are the arbiters of anything and everything that's interesting about places.
Cornwall is a fantastic county. It would be even better if the 'me, me, me' brigade just stepped aside for a bit and allowed the rest of us to see it, in all its glory. Without someone's fizzog in the way.
- Drabble500
- Aug 24, 2023