I’m not a grinch, a party-pooper or a spoilsport. But please let someone on Space Cadets have sufficient nous to spot very quickly that it’s a con and expose it for the mean-spirited, unfunny, egregious show it will be. Because despite being mean-spirited, unfunny and egregious, its worst crime is providing another vehicle for Johnny Vaughan to be on TV.

At the end of the first episode, someone should reveal to him that it’s a big practical joke. Of course they didn’t spend £5m on such a stupid idea, and of course they didn’t employ him to front it.

And then everyone laughs in his face.

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