When the Beeb started showing the trailers for Invisible Worlds (BBC One, Tuesday, 30 March, 9pm), I was quite excited. Yes, and that was with the knowledge that the irritating Richard Hammond was presenting it. Basically, I assumed it would be a throwaway piece of TV that made my eyes drop out of the sockets in astonishment at loads of cool images and little else. Sadly, that’s not the case.

The basic premise of the show is this – There are cameras that are so posh that they can see stuff that’s invisible to our eye. That’s it. Last night, we were shown cameras that could zoom in… loads.

Of course, we knew these existed because how else would we be able to see the microscopic Richard Hammond on Total Wipeout and Top Gear every week? Maybe someone should make a show about the brilliant minds that make the furniture he sits on and the flea sized jeans he wears.

Anyway, whilst settling down to have my puny little mind blown, the show unfurled and… well… showed itself to be rather boring.

Instead of displaying psychedelic images of neutron bombs and the like, what I got was an image of a lizard’s foot really, really close up and Richard Hammond pouring water on his arm.

Away from that, the sole purpose of the programme seemed to be the want to make me disgusted with the entire world. People kissed, cut up cheese, daydreamed on trains and drank coffee – all joined by millions of writhing, horned bugs and multi-limbed clawy things that probably fart on our tongues and shit in our eyelashes.

Instead of being amazed at the wonder of the microscopic world, I’m now washing my hands forty times a minutes and dry heaving between.

Thanks BBC.