How Not To Get Old

Series one, episode one
Die young. That’s the only sensible solution. Because otherwise – if the first episode of this new series is anything to go by – you become deadly dull as your quest to arrest the passing of your lost youth consumes you entirely. Fronted by Anna Richardson and Louise Redknapp, this series promises (threatens?) to work as a sort of one-stop shop for anti-ageing solutions.

‘How Not to Get Old’ is philosophically completely incurious about the cultural phenomenon of eternal youth – by the looks of this, that’s just what we do now. If it’s your bag, there probably are some useful tips and it is appropriately sceptical when it needs to be too. But if you’ve never seriously considered a tummy tuck or a facelift – and there must be more of us than C4 think – this is pretty much a write-off.