TV review: Benidorm (ITV)
I know Benidorm (ITV) has its admirers but every time I stagger through one of its sordid, sunburnt farces involving the worst of the Brits abroad, I feel like I need a good wash.
Writer Derren Litten has not messed with a formula that’s about as subtle as a kick in the castanets – jokes about gruesome swingers ‘releasing the beast’ after swallowing a key don’t get anywhere near my gag reflex. Having the karaoke singer perform Panic by The Smiths was a surreal if totally unbelievable touch, though.
As for the other comedy getting dragged out for another turn, Birds Of A Feather was back after 15 years as if nothing had changed.
Fair play to Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph for slipping back into character but is being older and none-the-wiser really anything to laugh about?
