Better? Worse?

I’m very pleased to hear that ROBOT WARS will be making a return to TV screens later this year. For those of you who missed it before, it was Engineering Geek Heaven as amateur enthusiasts from around the country designed and built robots and then sent them into battle in a BBC-built Arena of Destruction.
The whole thing was hosted by Craig Charles, who seemed to think that, in the world of presenting, volume equates to success.  His enthusiastic shouting would get louder and more boisterous as the rounds progressed, until he would end up gripping the set for support while forcing his words out with such force that his head veins would be bulging like over-inflated bicycle inner tubes. If he started an episode at full tilt I was always worried he might not have left himself enough room to move and would end up spontaneously combusting while announcing the winner of the Final. 
Mr Charles will, thankfully for this particular viewer, not be returning to his former role. The new version of the show will be hosted by Dara O’Briain, an intelligent comedian and darling of BBC Science and panel shows. I like him, but he talks so fast and so mumbly that in all my years of watching him I’ve only ever understood 1 word in 10 that he utters. 
Still - who needs a coherent presenter when you have remote-controlled dustbins attacking each other with axes and flame-throwers?
Licence money, In my opinion, spent very well indeed.

RC 10-2-16