Desperate Romantics

Brace yourself. Here it comes, another of the BBC's melodramatic forays into an art world it appears to know nothing about: Desperate Romantics (title link). "Get ready to embrace the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood" reads the blurb. What? That swaggering bunch of arrogant, toffee-nosed twits whose passage down a gallery causes pictures to explode in their wake? For God's sake! The trailer is even worse than I imagined the programme to be when I previewed it a year ago (CLICK). Desperate Tosh, more like it. The overpaid producer should be sacked. Let me know if I've wronged this ghastly production. The six-part series kicks off on BBC TWO 21 July at 9pm. CSI Miami, here I come.