Mmm. Whoever is really running BBC1 has gambled on good bacteria emerging from latest ingredients dropped into the 9pm Wednesday to Friday Petri dish. I think they've created something unpleasant in Gordon Ramsay's Bank Balance.
This is simply not 'event' tv. It's a cross between Million Pound Drop, Jenga and Buckaroo that goes on too long, doesn't really build, and features a host learning on air (whose performance is presumably judged by the show's Executive Lead, one Gordon Ramsay). A less desperate BBC might have pointed it as a reasonable replacement for tea-time Pointless.
It's probably improved Gordon Ramsay's bank balance, and that of Humble Pie, but if you said the title to any viewer...which channel would they guess it was going out on?
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