This Paddy McGuinness-hosted mystery music game tries to tap into a current moment in TV – and fails on every front
Fifteen minutes and 49 seconds into the first episode of I Can See Your Voice (Saturday, 7.20pm, BBC One), I have to pause it for the first time. I check some emails. I look in the fridge. I ask: “Do we need anything from the shop?” and then walk to and from the shop. Paddy McGuinness is still there on my screen, frozen mid-banter, hair bleached to an ill-advised blond. My finger hovers over the “play” button but I can’t bring myself to click it. “Can I just review it based on that?” I ask my editor. “I’ve done 15 minutes and 49 seconds of it, and 14 minutes of that were Paddy McGuinness explaining the show,” I say. “I don’t have to watch the rest of it to get it, do I? Surely? Surely? Surely? Surely not? Not all of it? Surely?”
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