Episode 1 Points of View

And we are back. Welcome to Points Of View,

the show that gives you the chance to have your say

on the BBC television programmes you've loved and loathed.

It was billed as being full of epic fails and big, big wins,

but BBC One's new Saturday night game show may have only managed

to live up to PART of that publicity patter.

Can't Touch This sees 16 contestants battle it out on an assault course

with the premise that if they touch a prize, they can win it.

Let's see what he's got.

-A very sore chin.

-Oh!

Oh, look, that last grab.

But, for some of you, it was the format itself

that ended up falling flat.

SCREAMING

Imagine Total Wipeout without

the humour of Richard Hammond,

where the audience appear to have gone home in total despair,

where the desperate presenters try to find something to laugh at.

You've got it. That's Can't Touch This.

The show seemed to have too many contestants, was long and drawn-out,

and 50 minutes' airtime seemed like two hours.

This should be fun.

Oh, sorry, I meant painful.

Can't Touch This, failing to make a splash.

Sorry. More water sports for you now,

and last Sunday's Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.

It is Cambridge.

It is Cambridge who take it, who win the 162nd Boat Race.

Cambridge powered to victory in the men's race,

claiming their first win since 2012.

CHEERING

The decision to include comedian Seann Walsh

as part of the television line-up, though,

gave a lot of viewers a distinct sinking feeling.

What is your experience of the Boat Race so far?

So far... I know nothing about this.

I thought it was in Cambridge.

I have no idea. So I'm happy to be here.

I think there's been a booking error, basically.

I felt that it hit a new low, with the comedian Seann Walsh

making somewhat uninformed, mildly humorous comments

on a subject he admitted he knew nothing about.

The guy with the long hair, Seann Walsh,

ruined the coverage between the races

with his attempts at humour and with

his offensive and sexist comments.

I was surprised and disappointed to see the coverage

of the women's Boat Race debased by the antics of Seann Walsh,

whose so-called humour was intended to enhance the experience.

How anyone, even with the minimum of wit, can find this acceptable,

I fail to understand.

At times even the co-presenter Helen Skelton appeared to have had enough.

I've found an activity that means Seann is too exhausted to talk.

And it wasn't just Points Of View you complained to.

The BBC itself got more than 200 complaints about Seann's antics,

and they have offered us this statement in response.

Last Sunday night,

we saw the tense climax of the BBC's lavish adaptation of John Le Carre's

1993 novel The Night Manager.

Just under seven million of you tuned in

to see Hugh Laurie's character Richard Roper get his comeuppance,

and you were not disappointed.

No! No!

No! No!

No!

Hugh Laurie was superbly sinister and clearly a nasty piece of work.

Edge-of-the-seat tension was maintained throughout the series.

It was an excellent piece of television,

it was a well-developed plot and well-thought-through characters.

It was a thrilling finale to what has been a fantastic series

and it really didn't disappoint.

Though Le Carre didn't pen a sequel,

the BBC's controller of TV channels and iPlayer, Charlotte Moore,

has revealed the corporation is speaking to the author

about a possible follow-up.

So Jonathan Pine, Angela Burr and, who knows,

maybe even Richard Roper could be making a comeback.

Next, a show you're maybe not so keen to see return.

We are gearing up for the Easter Weekend with two women

who put the great in great outdoors.

That's Julia Bradbury and Gardener's World legend Carol Klein.

Oh, I'm feeling fresh as a daisy. Let's hop to it.

Drawing to a close on Friday was Too Much TV,

a tea-time show on BBC Two all about...well, you have a guess.

Just walk on casually, why not?

-Hello and welcome to the show.

-The aim, apparently,

was to highlight must-see programmes and let you catch

the water-cooler moments you might have missed.

The biggest decision of the day still remains...

ALL: What are we watching tonight?

If nothing else, it sounds like they got the title right.

You did not hold back.

The show is uninventive, soporific,

vomit-inducing

in its self-reverential, self-congratulatory,

uncritical oozings over D-list celebrity culture.

It's a real horror.

D-list celebs?

-Wait a minute,

-I

-was a guest on it, Tony!

This programme is not fit for BBC Two.

It is shallow and it is more suitable

for the lightweight channels.

I think the standards have certainly slipped.

No word yet if Too Much TV will be back.

Back in January,

BBC Three revealed a new logo, and we will have more

on that channel's move online later in the series.

But recently it was the turn of the BBC channel

for 6- to 12-year-olds, CBBC, to unveil their new look.

What was previously this now looks like this.

And you got in touch to say you are not impressed.

But what do CBBC's target audience think of their channel's new look?

Can they read it?

And could they, as some of you have suggested,

have come up with something better?

We headed to a school in Aberdeen to find out.

MUSIC: Bills by LunchMoney Lewis

It looks like a C...

BBC. Oh?

-No, I don't recognise it at all.

-BBC One.

-BBC Two.

-A "C".

I'm getting confused.

-CBBC.

-CBBC.

I think it's brilliant.

-I think it's really nice.

-I think it's really nice.

It looks like a flower.

It's very dark and it's not bold.

And it looks dumb.

It has lots of colours in it.

All the colours of the rainbow.

It's hard to read it anyway.

And it's got lots of bits.

The logo is amazing.

I think it will make loads of children want to watch it.

OK, boys and girls, we are going to design our own CBBC logos.

-Are we ready?

-ALL: Yeah!

This is my CBBC design.

I designed it like the Britain flag.

I've done my BBBC and I put flowers on it.

This is my CBBC sign.

And I made it cool because CBBC is cool.

And there we are.

There's my one. Not as good as the kids', though, is it?

The announcement way back in October last year that Antiques Roadshow had

found its highest-value item had you on tenterhooks,

waiting for the prize piece to be revealed.

Last Sunday,

the dramatic moment finally arrived, but the item turned out to be

not a priceless painting or a valuable vase...

With football's most prestigious cup competition in full swing

here on the BBC, we were offered a rare opportunity

to work with a very special piece of silver.

And that left some of you feeling, well, cheated.

Along comes Gabby Logan with one of the FA Cups.

How totally disappointing.

And how appalling of the BBC and of Antiques Roadshow for all the hype

and publicity surrounding this item.

To be fair, the BBC had described the item last October

as a world-famous piece owned by a sporting institution but, still,

many of you felt that the former FA Cup's inclusion

wasn't in keeping with the spirit of the show.

And we put your comments to the BBC.

This is their reply.

Next, plenty of you in touch to show your appreciation for BBC Two's

This Farming Life.

This one's mum didn't have enough milk.

This one is the same. As you can see, it's a lot smaller.

So I thought I would take it away and bottle-feed it.

So I'm basically giving myself more work.

The 12-part series, which finished its run this week,

followed five different farming families in Scotland

as they tried to turn a profit in tough economic times.

If you missed it, This Farming Life is available on the iPlayer.

Also concluding recently,

the historical drama that has left you desperate

to discover what happens next.

Set in Australia after World War II,

series three of A Place To Call Home finished on BBC Two last month,

and what an ending!

We saw Sarah's tonic being poisoned by George's jealous lover,

James learning the child he thought was his own, wasn't,

and Elizabeth and Douglas's romantic rendezvous

derailed by a heart attack.

You're hooked and you want more.

I will let Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood, who plays Olivia, answer that one.

We are, right now, as we speak, shooting season four

and, although I'm under very solemn oath not to tell you

what happens in it,

I CAN say that it's very exciting and it's very 1950s Australia,

and we are very, very thrilled to be making season four for you to see.

But will we be able to see it here in the UK?

Well, we can exclusively reveal that the BBC has snapped up the rights to

series four just this week.

So Arianwen and the rest of the cast

will be back on UK screens in early 2017.

Darling, what splendid news.

Please, do keep your points of view coming.

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And finally, Britain lost a real comedy legend this week,

when Ronnie Corbett sadly passed away.

We will leave you with a clip.

We're back at the same time, 4pm, next Sunday.

Until then, it's goodnight from me.

This record is actually something rather special to me

because it contains all the funniest jokes that I've told

in 30 years of show business.

LAUGHTER

It's pathetic, isn't it?

I've heard of compact discs, but that's ridiculous.