Every Saturday evening it seems record-breaking numbers of TV viewers are sitting enraptured by the spectacle of Live Celebrity Woodworking. The craze has taken the whole nation by storm. Not until now has the nation’s desire to see some of the country’s top Z list celebrities wielding a piece of sandpaper to buff up a table leg ever been met with this amount of live prime-time coverage.
Of course, most of the celebrity-obsessed magazines and web sites have shown the occasional photo of a celebrity engaged in a bit of late-night fret sawing or with the latest fashionable designer chisel as they head out for an evening’s woodwork in one of London’s top woodworking venues.
Until now though TV has steered clear of this controversial area, not sure if the nation can come with an entire evening’s viewing devoted to, say, constructing mortise and tenon joints against the clock in front of a live studio audience, all judged by a panel of some of the countries leading joiners. However, the viewing figures for this spectacular have taken everyone by surprise, with the number of viewers actually exceeding the population of the UK. A feat not often achieved by previous TV programmes or even conventional mathematics.
Whether it will continue or whether it will turn out to be another shot-lived TV fad akin to last year’s hit TV game show Killer Sharks V Bankers Live Deathmatch it is hard to tell… yet.
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