Here's a run down of a few credulity-twanging shows that give it a run for its money in the stupidity stakes. The mind boggles.īut before we judge, this isn't the first time a show of such glaring Monkey Tennis-style absurdity has been somehow commissioned.
SPIKE TV DEADLIEST WARRIORS SERIES
The ratings were strong for a niche channel, a second series has been ordered for 2010 and countless web tributes have duly followed. Deadliest Warrior (which airs in the UK on Bravo from tonight) is the genuine article and what's more, it's been a big hit in the US on bloke station Spike TV. There was no curtain yanked aside to reveal Chris Morris pulling the parody strings. It was all too out-there, too ludicrously brash and too unashamedly awful to be for real, right? How wrong I was. And don't get me started on the bad taste bonanza of a series finale that pits the Taliban against the IRA in a grubby car park. Then there's the unintentionally hilarious use of experts with made-up titles such as "world champion knife-fighter" and "pirate weapons master". It has sinister footage of high-fiving dudes smashing prosthetic skulls with antiquated weapons and has a palpable love of dodgy fake beards. The show stages hypothetical battles between history's greatest warriors for no apparent reason. Their respective weapons are tested for lethality, and the weapon data, along with. The premier pits an Apache warrior against an ancient Roman gladiator. Science and rigor are heavily emphasized in Deadliest Warrior. And the more clips I watched the more I became convinced it was a brilliantly elaborate bit of satire. Spike’s newest addition to its line-up, Deadliest Warrior, attempts to set the record straight once and for all. Like most people I imagine, my first goggle-eyed glimpse of the show came during Charlie Brooker's telly quiz You Have Been Watching.
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