There were so many things wrong with Phillip Schofield’s TV comeback. The timing. The premise. The assumption that people would be tuning in for any reason other than idle curiosity.
And a barrage of negative press has immediately followed the first episode of his new Channel 5 show Cast Away, which aired last night. The Standard gave his first episode two stars; The Guardian called him “an incredibly bitter man” and The Times branded the whole thing “tedious.”
