The loneliest night of the week

I love BBC One press releases. Here's nearly all of today's very best, with a few added thoughts in brackets.

Let’s Get Ready To Tumble (w/t) is a live (editing costs money, and Splash seemed to cope) Saturday night competition featuring some of the nation’s best-loved celebrities (let the nation be the judge of that) vaulting, tumbling and flipping head-over-heels to try and win the public’s votes (I personally will be voting to keep the hopeless in, until they sustain serious injury) The complete amateurs (i.e. from schools without wall-bars) will be given a crash course in the basics of gymnastics before teaming up with the highest-flying, gravity-defying (hmmmm) gymnasts from across the globe to tackle never-before-seen, new-to-TV disciplines (hmmmm).

With the full backing of British Gymnastics (has money changed hands ?), the trainers who helped take Louis Smith and Beth Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation’s pop stars (how old are those McFly boys ?), actors (they mean Hollyoaks actors), newsreaders (Huw Edwards and Neil Nunes) and chefs (a condition of any new BBC2 series) into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track.

Your Home In Their Hands is a new prime-time transformational makeover (is there any other sort of makeover ?) series for BBC One, where home owners hand over their front door keys for the ultimate makeover (yes, got that ) – the only catch being the people doing the makeover are not professionals; the only homes they’ve decorated before are their own (you can almost touch the jeopardy).  In each programme, four passionate (DG-approved adjective) home decorators who think they’ve got an eye for design and a flair for fabrics compete against each other to win a cash prize. They think they’ve got what it takes. But when it comes to decorating someone else’s home, the rules are very different and the stakes and emotions run high.(Yes, we'll be watching paint dry...)

Charlotte Moore, Controller of BBC One says: “These two new entertainment series reflect the range and creative ambition of In-house (amateur gymnastics and home decorating - renaissance BBC). Your Home in Their Hands will see BBC One indulge viewers’ passion for home decoration, (seen anyone smile in B&Q ?), something we’ve not explored on the channel in recent years (until Danny spent all the money on The Voice) And Let’s Get Ready To Tumble will see brave celebrity contestants sign up to the toughest live Saturday night TV challenge yet!” (apart from making a Lottery show interesting)

BBC Worldwide has invested in both series. Joerg Bachmaier EVP, International Production at BBC Worldwide adds: “We are thrilled to invest in both Your Home In Their Hands and Let’s Get Ready To Tumble, two brand-new entertainment formats that we know will appeal to international audiences around the world."

From an earlier press release, here's Joerg on his appointment to Worldwide in 2011: "My years in Los Angeles taught me to develop high-quality content cost-efficiently, follow a more consumer-oriented approach and create innovative transmedia franchises which allow experiences and creativity to travel seamlessly across all screens. I am thrilled to bring my experience back to Europe and to have found such a great new home with BBC Worldwide."