Review: Extreme Fishing with Robson Green, Five (From Blackpool Citizen)
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Review: Extreme Fishing with Robson Green, Five
11:03am Tuesday 24th March 2009 in Leisure
IN what is the single greatest television programme title in the history of TV, Extreme Fishing with Robson Green is the highlight of Five's schedule at the moment (I know that's not necessarily saying much).
When you get over the fact that the title sounds more like a pitiful Alan Partridge pitch to the BBC than a real programme: “Inner city sumo? Monkey tennis?” it's not actually that bad.
Critics reckon because Robson sometimes uses an electric fishing rod and occasionally gets a chair to sit on it’s not as ‘extreme’ as it could be, but as a non-fisher, it all looks pretty perilous to me.
Last night he headed to Australia and came face-to-face with a 700kg crocodile. Then he tackled a feisty barramundi.
I bet Robson never thought he’d top Soldier Soldier or the cheese-fest that was his subsequent singing career.
But I think with this one he seems to show the charisma we all fell for in Soldier Soldier.
