It's Now Or Never - ITV1

I had the misfortune of catching the end of this piece of television on ITV earlier tonight.

It was quite possibly the worst thing i've seen in a very long time, and as someone who gets Price-Drop TV that's saying something.

I came in for the 'big finale'. This involved some zero-experience yet obvious wannabe cruise ship entertainer surprising his girlfriend with a blue cross version of an Austin Powers dance routine. The whole thing being a lead up to him proposing, where presumably she would agree either out of sheer embarrassment, or on the suspicion that the event was probably being televised.

If ever someone's face said 'oh god, no' it was this girls as a bunch of dancers decked out by 'George' from ASDA wheeled past in the most cringingly camp dance routine imaginable.

The bizarre highlight of the spectacle for me was 2 shots of what looked like Russell Grant dancing in a blue jump suit. The horoscope-spewing telly tubby (or his doppelganger) was stationed on a podium that rotated into view.

Ready to top off the poor girl's 'experience' was ITV stalwart 'Pip' Schofield, eager to ensure she had actually said 'Yes' to her partner and agreed how amazing the whole thing had been.

Next time I tune in for this, i'm going to make it more enjoyable by also sticking pins in my eyes at the same time.

I was going to give this a try as it looked interesting from the reviews in the tv guides. However I was so bored I switched it off after 5 minutes.

Bring back some decent Saturday night tv, ITV!

The ratings for it were appalling as well 1.7 million. Carry on Henry got the same rating but with a higher audience share!!

Thankfully there are only 2 editions of this awful programme.

Seems like ITV were playing it safe with this programme by not commissioning a longer series.

Oh well, The X Factor is back next month!

What did Prehistoric Park get?

I said last week it sounded like ITV would probably get their annual "worst ratings ever"!


Didn't watch this - tuned into the Viking Boat Race on C4 instead.

It got 3.3 million and was beaten by Bruce's Dancing show and The National Lottery In It To Win It.

Saturday Overnights

1 …. 6.1 (35.7%) …. Casualty (20:15) BBC1
2 …. 5.5 (33.9%) …. The National Lottery: In It to Win It (19:30) BBC1
3 …. 4.2 (26.4%) …. BBC News; Weather (22:30) BBC1
4 …. 4.1 (23.4%) …. Dancing in the Street (21:00) BBC1
5 …. 4.0 (26.5%) …. Dancing in the Street (18:15) BBC1
6 …. 3.5 (29.2%) …. Billy Elliot (22:45) BBC1
7 …. 3.3 (21.1%) …. Prehistoric Park (18:45) ITV

Well Dancing in the Street was awful, true car crash tv with Brucie not knowing what he was doing half the time, Cringworthy interviews, people walking across camera etc

It shows that people will just watch BBC1 regardless of what is on

I was very surprised that over on Digital Spy, despite the first poster saying he thought Now or Never was poor, and trying to launch into ITV rant number 100, all the other posters in the thread said they thought it was great. I had to sit down in shock!.

Garry Bushell liked it as well, but that says it all really! Bruce is a shadow of his Generation Game years.

I never watched the show either because I thought it will be a poor programme like the rest of ITV's output. When it came on I went outside instead to play in the garden. But incidentally, there was a closed thread about some sock puppets trying to advertise this program and they failed. http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21424

Already? Seems far to soon after the last one imo but Itv need shows like this fast i guess

How did the final Deal or No Deal fared last night. Also what about Weakest Link?

Brucie was looking down the wrong camera for most of the show and he was near the mark on some of his gags as well I thought.

I like Bruce but I fear his age may have caught up with him slightly.