Like him or loathe him – I like him – Danny Dyer rarely misfires. The geezer “act” is an act only insofar as every celebrity is an act; he’s a more-than-competent actor and he has presented some decent documentaries (especially his most recent one, about modern masculinity). The Dyers’ Caravan Park, however, is a pile of rubbish.
The set-up is pretty simple. Danny loves caravan parks. He spent many happy holidays in them in his youth, surrounded by extended family and quickly made friends, enjoying “a sense of community that is severely lacking in today’s world”. So he has invested in such a park, the family-run Priory Hill in Leysdown-on-sea on the Isle of Sheppey, with the aim of reinvigorating it, the industry and bringing back “the great British holiday.” The six-part series will follow him and his daughter Dani through their first year at whatever it is they’re playing at.
