UK: A new show titled “The Glee Club”, is being lined up for the 6pm slot which will be be vacated by The Simpsons when the hit US cartoon moves from BBC2 to Channel 4 in 2004. Jane Root, the BBC2 controller, has cast the net wide in her search for a replacement for The Simpsons, which is one of the channel’s top-rating shows. The Glee Club is a show in which a panel of judges gives £5,000 to people with weird and wacky ideas, such as buying Celine Dion albums and arranging a public burial for them. “To win, the supplicants must have an interesting and compelling idea of what they’d like to do with the money – from the sublime to the ridiculous. Something they would remember for the rest of their life.” Doesn’t sound at all like the successor to The Simpsons that we had in mind. Read More>>>
