Britannia High - Episode 2

Much as some of the modern series have done with format, one character development per episode is at Britannia High's musically explosive centre. Last week's pale, traumatised and naive Lauren quickly fell into her place with fello students this week as our viewers' eye was firmly focused at Danny, Lauren's new muse and Britannia High's answer to Troy Bolton.

The musical numbers continued though sometimes they felt more out of place than the cast's obvious age difference from their characters and the undertones of the peripheral cast were continued with Claudine's bitchiness to Lauren (in real life she is an absolute sweetheart) and the random, trying to live up to ditzy skin's classic Cassie, character of Lola.

It was all a bit obvious to be honest. Last week we had naive, country girl with massive talent trying to fit into the vicious world of celebrity, dance and music and Episode 2 went along the lines of - top high school hunk with incredible gifts for dance fails in everything else. As the program progressed Danny (Mitch Hewer) became more and more resentful to his fellow classmates and teachers trying to help him, pushing away Lauren whilst at it, and generally being a complete pain. Taking his attention away from his actual failing grades he launched himself into showcasing himself, completing the oddly placed musical numbers and becoming the school's newest rep. It all came to a crux when Girls Aloud's Nicola and Kimberly came to give the school a "Q & A" session and Danny, being the school's rep was asked to read out the hand picked questions. With a frantic flurry of brow furrowing it became obvious that something was wrong and after storming out of the hall, humiliated and upset, it was revealed that Danny had dyslexia and couldn't read a thing. Five minutes later he was sent off to a residential reading and spelling course and that was the end of that.

I'm sorry to say that this show is very quickly flagging. I was very up for being impressed and hoping that one of ITV's new forefront entertainment programs would indeed be that, forefront and ground breaking. Instead you wish the ground would open up and swallow what is likely to become a great big failing mess as the series continues. I will continue watching, Mitch is a fitty, Sapphire Elia was lovely in real life, and I want to believe that it can better but with only a run of 9 episodes and 2 already down its going to have to do it fast.