TV shows these days can sound like a game of “would you rather”. How would you prefer to spend a week: Lost in Alaska with Sue Perkins? Extreme Fishing with Robson Green? Or Into the Congo with Ben Fogle? The last one is a new three-part series on Channel 5. I’d choose Fogle’s company every time. Apart from anything else, he has such lovely manners.
Does there come a point in every television presenter’s career where they turn into Alan Partridge? In Sue Perkins: Lost in Alaska (Channel 5), our intrepid presenter goes fishing. “I sound pervy now. I don’t mean to be pervy – but he was a sexy fish. Sue me,” she says of her catch. “And that’s where the term ‘fish fancier’ comes from.”