Carrie and David's Popshop

"Hello, is that Children's BBC?"

"Yes it is"

"Hi, it's the head of light entertainment here.  We've got a bit of a problem,
that you might be able to help with"

"Really?"

"Yep, eh, you remember those two marvelously talented singing coaches off
of Fame Academy?"

"You surely don't mean the seriously annoying Carrie and David Grant do
you?"

"That's the ones.  Now we appear to have accidently got them under contract
for a while.  Can you do anything with them?"

"Er, I'd rather poke out my eyes with knitting needles than commission a
show featuring them."

"Sorry, it's an order.  Ship it up to BBC Scotland - it might stop them making
more Gaelic rubbish.  Bye!"

And so, in that legendary conversation, Carrie and David's Popshop was
born.

There's a standard pattern to each episode.  Carrie, David and
West-Country Mongrel Riff (the star of the show) make a predictably poor
attempt at comedy until a stage-school brat arrives.

The stage-school brat is the 'customer' who wants a low-quality pop song
made to help them with a certain situation, where practical advice would be
far more effective.

David and Carrie make a mess of producing the song and are bailed out by
Riff, who eventually through the carnage manages to get the viewer to
deliver said pop song to the customer.

Yes, I don't like it.  Yes, my three year-old adores it.

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