With a cast compiled by throwing a dart at a ‘Who Will Do Absolutely Anything?’ board, the show threatens to be messier and more backstabby than ever
Channel 4 already knows that The Circle is an incredible TV format. The problem is that not quite enough of the rest of us have realised that yet. That’s why C4 has folded the show (briefly: a group of people in a block of Instagram-neat apartments compete to be liked via a clunky in-house
Social Media app; they can either be their boring selves or someone more interesting; there is absolutely no benefit to pretending to be someone else, only the constant risk of being found out; for some reason this medium inspires a lot of very bizarre flirting) into its annual Stand Up to
cancer output, because here is a worthy platform for blockbuster reality telly on a par with the Big Brother of yore.
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