Monthly column on the arts: brushes with entertainment
A television certainty is that if a series proves a big hit, the other channels will produce their own clones, all produced with wide-eyed enthusiasm as if nobody ever thought of the idea before.
David Porter
If airports are your thing, or gardening, or archaeological excavation or any number of other activities, you have a wide choice these days. The other channels are even considering 'Big Brother' clones after the remarkable success of Channel 4's dreary exercise in voyeurism earlier this year.
