Yahoo News TV highlights: Sat 22 – Fri 28 June
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TV highlights: Sat 22 – Fri 28 June
Brendan’s Magical Mystery Tour (Mon-Fri, 5pm, C4)
‘Coach Trip’, hosted by the irrepressible Brendan Sheerin, was one of the most unlikely TV hits of recent years, taking the unpromising raw material of “a bunch of strangers go somewhere boring on a bus” and making it into reality TV gold. Don’t really know why, but it just worked. Now he’s back with a new daytime offering that sees eight randoms take a five-day trip – in this first instance, to Barcelona – shown over each weekday for a week. The twist this time is that they are given a series of challenges by which they can “win” fancy accommodation and meals in the lap of luxury, with the losers having to perform forfeits like gutting fish and then stay in a dump by the airport. Tasks this week include paella cooking and acting in one of Spain’s cheese-tastic telenovelas, and it’s all a bit of a hoot.
‘Coach Trip’, hosted by the irrepressible Brendan Sheerin, was one of the most unlikely TV hits of recent years, taking the unpromising raw material of “a bunch of strangers go somewhere boring on a bus” and making it into reality TV gold. Don’t really know why, but it just worked. Now he’s back with a new daytime offering that sees eight randoms take a five-day trip – in this first instance, to Barcelona – shown over each weekday for a week. The twist this time is that they are given a series of challenges by which they can “win” fancy accommodation and meals in the lap of luxury, with the losers having to perform forfeits like gutting fish and then stay in a dump by the airport. Tasks this week include paella cooking and acting in one of Spain’s cheese-tastic telenovelas, and it’s all a bit of a hoot.
Our TV expert Alan Tyers picks the week’s TV highlights
