It’s funny. A lot of people still look at the internet as a fad. It’s a new shining, sparkling thing where everyone runs riot… but really, it’s just a new toy which will never influence Big Media like newspapers and TV. Well, if there’s ever proof of the growing influence of Us Internet Dwellers, then it’s the appearance of Hole in the Wall (BBC One, Saturday, 20 September, 5.40pm). Sadly, as influences go, it’s hardly the best representative of what goes on in the wide world of web.

The show, if you didn’t know, was commissioned thanks largely to the fact that clips of the Japanese equivalent of the show have proved to be hugely popular amongst all kind of people. They’ve watched online videos and puzzled over the strange slapstick of it all. So with that, Auntie got hip and decided that it was time for this cult fave to make the leap to it’s main channel. The fact that it’s cheaper than a Lilo Lil’s knickers probably made it an attractive proposition too.

Dale Winton hosted the show for a bit of camp fun and giggled and hooted as, in no particular order, Anton Du Beke, Darren Gough, Dave Myres, Andi Peters, Zoe Salmon and that woman who used to be on Coronation Street and Loose Women fell into the drink in silver jump suits, making the whole spectacle resemble tumbling jacket potatoes. If you still don’t know the show, then a wall hurtles toward the contestants with a funny shaped hole which they have to squeeze through. And that’s pretty much it.

Having been one of the people who so enjoyed the Japanese clips, I wondered how well it would translate into English. And here lies one of the problems of the show. The Japanese clips had a certain insanity thanks to us Brits watching and having no real idea what’s going on. Hare-brained blokes ranting gobbledegook while throwing themselves at a wall is far more enjoyable than watching Andi Peters being a little too competitive and Anton Du Beke making fat jokes at Dave Myers.

Once you find the rule out… or rather, once you find out there are rules at all, the whole thing falls flat like day old pop. The feeling of the show was a bit like… well, remember when you were a kid and you and your mates would make up some insane game that made no real sense, but you got to charge around like a lunatic and quite possibly duff each other up along the way? Well, the boring kid who asserts that rules need to be made for this game to succeed tends to be the catalyst for the end of fun. This show felt a bit like that.

Also, what annoyed slightly was the fact that it was celebrities taking part. They’re far too aware and tend to descend into pretending to fall over like Peter Simon in Double Dare. What this show needs is mentals from up and down the country faced with a speeding concrete wall, as opposed to the flimsy polystyrene one currently. For a real laugh, we need injury! However, it’s hard to give it a real kicking as it is unashamedly daft and all for charity. As it’s the new It’s a Knockout!. With that, are we to assume that Match of the Day’s Jonathan Pierce (who provides rudimentary commentary) is the new Stuart Hall?