Hampered by a terrible name, Dave’s new travelogue investigating modern Britain is constantly entertaining
Hard to like a TV show with a terrible name, isn’t it? Let’s run over it again: British As Folk (Monday, 10pm, Dave). So it’s supposed to sound like swearing, right? Which I guess is quite punk – but it’s not a real phrase. And what they’ve done is turn the would-be rude bit into “folk”. So now it’s just: British As Folk. Because the show is about Britain (the place) and meets a lot of the folk (people) within it. I just feel … Listen, I just feel like there was at least one other option on the whiteboard that they could’ve gone with.
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