I’ve been holding onto this news like a filthy secret. I thought, perhaps, if I didn’t saying anything, it might not happen. However, like mental torture, the hammer blows kept hitting my mind and eroding sensible thought. The bad news is, that Coming of Age is getting recommissioned. The only reason I’m mentioning it now is because it keeps cropping up in various comments on the site… and it’s time to face up to the reality that the worst show in history is not going away.

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Our ed’, Paul, wrote about BBC Three’s spring plans, and to be honest, it looks pretty lame. Lily Allen is getting a new series, and while it’s not great news, it’s far from bad. However, add to this, news of a show called Young Butcher Of The Year, a new and rubbish vehicle for Horne and Corden and something called My Life As An Animal which sees dickheads pretending to be animals or something. He ended with “still no word on whether Coming Of Age will be back.”

Well, the bad news is that it is coming back.

According to the Beeb, the official line is that Coming Of Age is a “celebration of youth.” If you ask me (which I’m aware that you didn’t), it’s not a celebration of British young people, but rather, a damning look at British pondlife. The oxygen thieves that watch this show giggle at the word ‘wank’ in between charging at each other head-first with pans on their bonces. Winner gets a WKD.

What makes this so hard to stomach is that better shows are being nixed in favour of this shite. Pulling (which, again, I’m more than aware of the fact that I keep banging on about it) will be no more, as will Phoo Action. Pulling was already great and, for my money, ready to make the leap to BBC Two and Phoo Action, although weird and kinda rubbish, looked like it had potential to do something really unique… AND it starred Jamie Winstone who is generally ace.

Instead of seemingly endless repeats of Two Pints (woeful), which not free up the space for some balance? BBC Three may well be aimed at young people… but surely the BBC don’t think that badly of everyone under the age of 21 do they? They’re not all braying morons are they?