The Piano review: Anodyne fluff that treats its viewers like idiots

Even Claudia Winkleman can't compensate for this show's hollow concept, inconsistency and barrage of cliches, allow me to explain the concept. Contestants are amateur pianists from all walks of life, with varying degrees of musical training, who perform on a train station piano .

First up, the team are in Manchester to hear from the city’s budding talents. I really tried to get on board. I liked all the people featured. But even the most moving personal stories cannot make me enjoy this, the most anodyne fluff you could possibly conceive of in dreams so un-wild even Carl Jung couldn’t read into them.

Simply, it treats both its viewers and contestants like idiots. It’s as though the judges – who, by the way, have about as much chemistry as two different bottles of in-date semi-skimmed milk being mixed together – are doing charity work, never moving in their commentary beyond thrillingly original and #BeKind observations such as “never judge a book by it’s cover, it’s brilliant”.

The contestants are largely very likeable and often talented. So all I can do is lament that they have been dragged into the result of a Friday afternoon Channel 4 meeting in which executives concluded that what the British publicneeds isn’t culture or music or even in-depth human stories, but to gorge itself silly on a bottomless brunch of overseasoned sentimentalism.

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