Starts off with a promising premise and had me with it for the first five minutes. It's all downhill from there, as Kumar and Widdecombe try to pull off a poor mans "Extras" with Stephen Mangan. It just didn't work, and watching Widdecombe's poor acting was far more awkward and cringeworthy than entertaining. Mangan played his brief part, but Widdecombe is no Ricky Gervais.
Fifteen minutes in and Kumar is back to his trademark "white people" routine - now absurdly insinuating that only white people are interested in trains. I watched as far as Kumar chasing the Prime Ministers motorcade while screaming and swearing before I couldn't take any more. A programme with promise ruined by seeming self-sabotage. I really don't understand the concept of alienating half of ones audience by throwing in comments about races and political affiliations in a television show where this has zero bearing on anything. If said comments were genuinely creative, funny or well thought out, this might be a different kettle of fish. Waste of time.
Fifteen minutes in and Kumar is back to his trademark "white people" routine - now absurdly insinuating that only white people are interested in trains. I watched as far as Kumar chasing the Prime Ministers motorcade while screaming and swearing before I couldn't take any more. A programme with promise ruined by seeming self-sabotage. I really don't understand the concept of alienating half of ones audience by throwing in comments about races and political affiliations in a television show where this has zero bearing on anything. If said comments were genuinely creative, funny or well thought out, this might be a different kettle of fish. Waste of time.