Isn’t Aunty Beeb getting very hip and with it these days? Using words like ‘Screwed’ in the titles of their shows! Whatever next? Using the F word when Gordon Ramsay isn’t on the other end of it?! Mind you, this show was on BBC3, Aunty’s racy little sister…

And this show was very, very entertaining; I loved every minute of it! It was rather like Beadle’s About meets Watchdog, and the three very telegenic faces at the front of the show were infinitely prettier than most of the folks we usually see on consumer type shows. There was Spencer – who did the narrating bits – along with Polly and Carol who took on the roles of setting people up to teach us all a thing or two about consumer rights.

We saw several scenarios in which we, the great unwashed public, might be a bit hazy on our rights and it set us straight. In one very amusing scene, Polly and Carol had a shelf in a homewares shop rigged to collapse as some unsuspecting folks picked up an item from that shelf. And once collapsed, the winning duo of Polly and Carol then tried to charge the various bemused/fuming customers for the breakages… Read more & comment »