Big Bag of Crap

After sharing my joy about 'League of Legends' yesterday, I unfortunately exposed myself to the dark side of television's turdfest; the yang to Arcane's yin.
'Chess Masters' caught my eye because I am a fan of chess, and I foolishly thought that the BBC might be lifting their sights towards the highbrow again and producing an intelligent, thoughtful, educational series about the game and its multitude of players.
No.
What they've done is jump on a game that they know is hugely popular these days, taken that as a theme, and then come up with something that is simply an amalgamation of their most popular shows over the past ten years. I'm not kidding. If you were to program AI with the back catalogue of Strictly Come Dancing, Pointless, Dragon's Den, Who Do You Think You Are, The Repair Shop, The Apprentice and The Voice; and then tell it to take elements from each of them and mash them into a format, this is what it would come up with.
Bleurgh.

RC 13-3-25