It Will Never Work

Some people are stupid (see the first post) whilst others are ludicrous and ridiculous geniuses. I find it interesting that on the whole, stupid and genius can be hard to differentiate between.


Picking up where 'It Will Never Work' left off. Dave Gorman's new show 'Genius' is a good exploration of this, the award winning theory that there is a very thin line between stupid and genius. Genius allows members of the public to contribute to the show in order to have their inventions judged to be either 'genius' or 'not genius', by those best qualified to make that distinction, celebrities.

It Will Never Work was a magazine style program aimed at kids which every week explored a summary of ridiculous and unlikely inventions, leaving its, let's face it, largely adult audience coming up with strange ideas of their own.

Genius picks up from It Will Never Work left its viewers (no, not in a mass Phillippa Forrester inspired wank), arriving on the BBC at around the time that IWNW's target audience have developed into time-flooded students and bored post-grads. Viewers send in ideas which are then set head-to-head in a competition to win a remote control trophy.

So far the program has seen such gems as symmetrical-alising the Isle of Wight (to attract more tourists - those 'who want major attractions and symmetry from their holidays, but aren't bothered about the attractions'), and a 25 hour moisterising cream for those who want a lie in.

The highlight of the series so far has been Jonathon Pryce giving himself a cheeky snog whilst Dave Gorman begs him not to in a rather disturbed sounding voice.