BEDLAM

News of my 'blog' is hitting facebook hard. It needs to be a bit more pretentious so I give you my thoughts on one of Sky Living's numerous new dramas BEDLAM.

Starring Will Young, which makes me feel weird immediately. 'Oh, he's such a lovely man' and all that, but he is little more than a cardboard cut-out of himself, and I say that begrudgingly because his face is so kind. It's not just Young who's acting is quite dire though, in fact most of the cast could do with going back to RADA for a bit. It's essentially full of beautiful people plus Hugo Speer, with all the female leads being stick thin with razor abs. Size 10s need not apply. Then there's Jed, he's the one that can see ghosts and how they died (yes you read that right). He too is very attractive but wholly unbelievable. I'm all for the supernatural but the whole concept of this is so odd and a bit predictable. Plus if the first two episodes are anything to go by then the storyline will be the same every week except a different ghost will try and kill a different person. Jed will then save the day, get rid of the ghost and the audience will learn something about morality. For instance if you kill two small children in a hit and run, if you don't hand yourself in a ghost of an unrelated man who died in the asylum in the 1960s will kill your cat then try to kill you. He will only rest in peace when you call the police. Dawn from Eastenders learnt that the hard way.

The show is set in the luxury apartment complex 'Bedlam Heights', a renovated asylum which was closed down decades before due to 'bad practice'. Therefore the souls of the dead patients are looking for revenge on those living in these new flats. Why anyone would move into 'Bedlam' anyway is beyond me, so take some dramatic license with a pinch of salt. Kate and her Dad own these apartments: she is the show bitch that every viewer I assume hates, mainly because I do. Her Dad, played by Hugo Speer is the character we know least about. Suspicions are arising however that he has something to do with the disappearance of an annoying girl we saw for about two seconds in episode one - cue eerie music, a short temper and a furrowed brow.

It's a show that I find myself wanting to watch more of despite being utterly baffled by it and not even liking it that much. There are bits that freak you out and make you jump but on the whole it is unbelievable and almost laughable. I have an urge to watch the entire series though; I'm committed and suitably intrigued now.

Here's the trailer, it makes it look better than it actually is so I hope it's going to get better at some point.