The Rugby World Cup is on, so it is natural for telly to look back to 2003, when England won the trophy. What sort of light-factual series would be a good commemoration? Fortunately, a relevant bandwagon is already rolling.
Recently, Andrew Flintoff has taught underprivileged kids cricket on the BBC, and David Beckham has rescued a youth football team for Disney. So here comes Grand Slammers on ITV1, a two-parter in which a gang of World Cup winners teach rugby to prison inmates. An easy commission – but ITV may not have ended up with quite the show it expected.
