If you like Big Brother, you’ll love the latest reality TV series Pineapple Dance Studios.
But if, like me, you’d rather watch paint dry than give your time to a group of self obsessed show-offs, then you’ll truly hate this.
The Sky One series, on everyone’s lips, is led by artistic director Louie Spence, a man rarely seen without his foot wrapped round his head, who will do anything to get the camera pointed on him.
His cat impersonation, that he seems to slip into every show, is both a marvel and an oddity. The way in which he can move his body is so strange, it’s mesmerising.
Filmed in London’s legendary Pineapple Dance Studios, the series follows the staff and regulars as they go about the vital and apparently all-consuming business of competitive dance.
It’s all quite tongue in cheek, with various guests breaking out into dance when the staff turn their back, in a sort of musical stage show sort of a way. Camp doesn’t even begin to cover it and it’s a constant fight for who can be the most outrageous.
It does however have a certain appeal, the kind that makes you want to tune in again and again.
I don’t know why but it makes me smile. But I’m not sure if I’m laughing with them or just at them.
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