Trip leads to a red card (From The Northern Echo)

Trip leads to a red card

2:20pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010 in

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Coach Trip (C4, 5pm)
First Time Voters’ Question Time Live (BBC3, 8pm)
Relocation, Relocation (C4, 8pm)

THIS new series of Coach Trip is shaping up nicely for those of us watching from the comfort of our armchairs. The European tour isn’t proving quite so pleasant for those aboard the coach.

The longer fourth series takes seven couples on a tour with the disadvantage that every day the passengers vote off one couple.

The pair with the most votes get a yellow card. Collect two yellow cards and that’s converted into a red card – and the couple in question are sent packing to catch the first plane back home.

A clear divide has developed between young and old with the more junior travellers forming a clique to vote off the old fogeys. The dynamics changed at the start of this week with the arrival of two new tourists who’ve declared they intend to get the ringleader – comic Jayson – kicked off the coach.

A day in Venice sees them enjoying some gondola lessons before chilling out on the beach. But come the vote at the end of the day tensions rise with the travellers unable to decide who should get the yellow card.

Long-suffering guide Brendan is forced into a Coach Trip first – yellow carding two couples.

Things don’t get any merrier on the way to Vicenza with a fight breaking out onboard the coach. Enter Brendan to break them up and give an instant red card to one couple.

The rows continue overnight with one pair having a big argument. Next morning there is what they call “an atmosphere” on the coach.

The mood is lifted by a visit to some spectacular caves and a hovercraft ride but, come voting time, it all kicks off again with one couple getting a clean sweep on votes.

I bet they wish they’d stayed at home for a spot of peace and quiet.

YOU could forgive Kirstie and Phil for getting a little nostalgic intonight’s Relocation, Relocation as they revisit the first couple they relocated way back in 2002. Yes, they really have been house-hunting for eight years.

For those who can’t remember that far back, Fiona and Tom Butcher sold their two-bedroom flat in London, and hoped the proceeds would stretch to a country home near Loch Lomond and a Glasgow crash pad.

Fiona was tired of the stresses and strains of England’s capital, while Tom was hoping to give up the daily grind to run his own pottery studio.

Now the experts are back for a visit to discover that life’s been anything but quiet. With a new family and new businesses, there have been many highs.

But things took a turn for the worse when Fiona and Tom decided to completely rebuild their home, only for the credit crunch to hit Britain.

THE title of First Time Voters’ Question Time Live tells you everything you want to know about the programme.

Dermot O’Leary takes a break from his X Factor duties to get the nation’s youth involved in the political process.

He’ll be chairing a special edition of Question Time, giving first-time voters the chance to put their opinions to representatives of the main political parties.

The panel will include David Lammy MP, Higher Education Minister; Jeremy Hunt MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport; and Julia Goldsworthy MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Communities and Local Government, and one of the youngest MPs in the Commons.

First Time Voters’ Question Time is part of a package of BBC3 programmes bringing political coverage to the 16- to 34- year-old audience.