Britain’s Best History
March 30, 2007
In a bid for ‘Britain’s Stupidest’ title for a TV show, UKTV has launched ‘Britain’s Best’. In the recent popular tradition of British telly, where list programmes crowd out proper documentaries, Britain’s Best invites viewers and visitors to its website to vote for ‘Best Castle’, ‘Best Palace’. ‘Top religious building’ when we looked was Stonehenge - does it count as a building if it doesn’t have a roof? Swiftly running out of steam and categories, the programme lumps poor old Clifton Suspension Bridge under ‘Best of the Rest’. Dumbing down? Hmmm, just maybe.
