On the Scrapheap

I am a huge fan of Scrapheap Challenge. I watched it religiously when I was in the UK. It was fantastic and it had Kryten presenting it! (I know, I’m a nerd. Live with it) On the move to Australia things changed slightly. While travelling it was impossible to watch it (most backpackers have no taste) and when I met Graham it was a while before we got into a decent place and it’s only in the last 12 months that we’ve had access to a channel (ABC2) that showed it. And Graham doesn’t like it*. Still, I occasionally got my Scrappy fix of both Scrapheap Challenge and Scrappy Races. I have even been known to watch Junkyard Wars (What IS it with Americans? Do they not know what a Scrapheap is? Was ‘Challenge’ not macho enough for them?). July this year. I turn on to ABC2 and it’s Scrapheap Challenge folks, but not as we know it. What were they thinking? It’s AWFUL! That bloody presenter is a nightmare, the format is all wrong. It worked for Scrappy Races, people building in their own time, but for this it’s all just WRONG. And where are Kryten and Lisa? Even the AMERICAN presenters were better than that man! The episode I saw didn’t even have the teams competing against each other because it was too far for them to go. Seriously, what is the point? I’m not happy. *we were married before I found out...