Worst House On The Street: tips to buy an ugly house – TV tonight

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Well, they are at the moment. And undertaking huge refurbishment projects is what this new makeover show is all about. Yes, all right, so most makeover shows are about that. Fair point. Well spotted.

But this one, hosted by brotherand-sister property developers Stuart and Scarlette Douglas, highlights how pleasingly profitable such projects can be if you follow one crucial piece of advice.

“Always buy the worst house on the best street,” explains Scarlette, as she welcomes us to episode one of, funnily enough, Worst House On The Street (8pm).

“It’s an adage known to savvy buyers everywhere,” Stuart insists.

Clearly I’m about as savvy as a saveloy because it’s certainly not known to me.

But yes, I can see it makes sense, at least to the sort of buyers happy to put in hours of back-breaking physical graft – which, trust me, does not include any TV critic you’ll ever meet.

If Stuart and Scarlette look familiar to you, by the way, that’s because they recently appeared as advisers on George Clarke’s makeover contest Flipping Fast. If they don’t look familiar to you, that doesn’t mean they didn’t, it just means you didn’t watch it.

In other news, Susan Calman’s Grand Week By The Sea continues with a visit to the Isle ofWight (8pm, Channel 5). Highlights include a round of crazy golf with Michaela Strachan. If A Round Of Crazy GolfWith Michaela Strachan doesn’t become a spin-off series in its own right, Channel 5 must be losing their touch.

Elsewhere, free-to-air channel Dave (Freeview 19, Freesat 157) is showing an episode of pet-peeves panel game ROOM 101 (8.20pm)

on which Frank Skinner’s guests include actor Laurence Fox.

Given that Laurence hasn’t been afraid to speak his mind these past couple of years, taking a very public stand on some of today’s most bitterly divisive issues, refusing to be cowed despite suffering some vile abuse, what’s the biggest bugbear he raises on this show?

Cyclists in Lycra. “I call them two-wheeled road fascists,” he declares, “I hate them from the bottom of my heart.”

Mind you, this was filmed long before he went on Question Time.

I guess he must have been just warming up.

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