It must be great being famous, every half baked, unfunny idea you come up with gets made and slung on telly. This was surely the case with John Bishop and Panto! If any one of us had submitted that script we would have got a rejection slip in super quick time. Co written and starring John Bishop, although I think co writer Jonathan Harvey may well be made up so Mr. Bishop doesn't have to take all the blame, Panto! more or less failed on every level.
John Bishop played Lewis Loud (I know) a local FM deejay doing his first panto and every theatrical cliche is well and truly used and reused. Watching John Bishop act you are constantly reminded of the phrase don't give up the day job. His performance most reminded me of Sofia Coppola's in The Godfather part III,colossally bad and viciously embarrassing in equal measures. It must be the Bishop effect because Mark Benton, as the panto's director, and Sheridan Smith, as a ditsy soap star, have both never been as bad.
Oh yes they have!
Oh no they haven't!
Also this is not just about a poor old panto, no it is also about redemption andreconciliation as Lewis, who has always been an absent dad, bonds with his son and it is all thanks to the production. The father and son scenes were so bad even Steve Martin would have refused to do them. Add to this Devil's goulash the running joke that Chesney Hawkes keeps having accidents on stage and you have yet another to throw something at the telly. But wouldn't you know it, the panto proves to be a success and everyone has learnt a life lesson, well I certainly learnt something, avoid John Bishop the actor.
With it's title, I suppose the ITV were lumbered with showing this seasonal turkeyprime-time, where as its true slot should really have been mid August at 11.30pm then we all could have joyously missed it.
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