Four in a Beds, Come Dine With Mes, the Coach Trips – that is mild and peril-free, the sort of ambient television that is perfect to chain-watch on an all-day hangover.
Fame in the Family fits neatly into that timeslot: it’s on the outer reaches of interesting, like talking to someone at a wedding for just long enough to find one thing in common (“Oh your mum is from Northumberland?
My grandmother was from Northumberland! No I’ve never been … ”). It keeps you occupied without troubling you to have to stay awake.
There are two things that are strikingly delightful about all this: first, nobody on this programme has any idea what tone or shape it will take (this includes the celebrity guests!) and it shows.
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