I guess it's hard to get A listers/top acts to perform live on TV for a NYE show, as they've probably got better things to do, would charge huge amounts and don't need the money anyway, but I can't help thinking that last night's TV offerings were particularly dire. We tuned into The Last Leg, which had a NYE special on (though I suspect it wasn't actually live). There were some funny moments, but the live band were doubling up as a weird comedy act and got things badly wrong, IMO. They performed a "funny" song they'd written about Spanish Flu, citing that it had killed millions of people. I know it was 100 years ago so nobody alive would be mourning those deaths now, but I couldn't see anything humourous in the subject matter at all. It was just odd, as were all the other silly things they did. At least the main presenters and Johnny Vegas was amusing at times.
We turned over to watch the Graham Norton Show. That was OK, until Catherine Tate appeared, doing her 'nan' character, and told a vile unfunny story which involved an old lady who'd shat herself in the theatre. The character is revolting and unlikeable, and the story was cringeworthy and not funny. Anyone who cares for elderly incontinent people will surely agree that there's nothing funny about it and many old people are mortified by the indignity of it. Mocking the afflicted is just horrible.
We enjoyed watching the fireworks in London, but felt the background music was very poor. The music seemed to be geared towards the under 25 age group, it just sounded like noise pollution to me.
AIBU to think that considering that most of these TV offerings are pre-recorded anyway, the people organising this entertainment could have done better than scraping the barrel in this way?