It’s 2031 and the TV landscape is different yet, in many ways, all too familiar.
The Gogglebox channel is live streaming 24-hour reaction from its tired cast who Channel 4 have handcuffed to their sofas.
Line Of Duty is in its 15th series, and a worried Steve has yet to reply to those emails about his drug test.
Meanwhile, a nation holds its breath as Britain’s Next Top Tie-Dye T-Shirt Artiste reaches a thrilling conclusion.
The Great British Bake Off hit on a winning recipe a decade ago. But if Bake Off is a luxury tart created by a top pastry chef then many of the copycat shows created since are merely scabby buns made by a vacant teenager in a home economics class.
Most of these series come and go yet it would be a shame if Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star didn’t get the praise it deserves.
Other than when I got my face painted as Spider-Man in 1986, I don’t have much experience of make-up but, like Bake Off, you don’t really need an insider’s knowledge of the subject to appreciate the results.
The nice thing about Glow Up is the bubbly cast of contestants, who could be annoying but just come across as winning. Even the judges, one of whom looks like a hipster Monopoly Man, are pleasant when they’re excoriating the botched warpaint some make up artists apply.
Give Glow Up a go. You’re worth it.
Glow Up, BBC1
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