Prescott to front ambitious documentary...

Fans of secretly sensitive John Prescott will be delighted to hear that he is to front a BBC documentary that explores the British class system. Titled Prescott On Class the autumn season highlight has been described (by producers) as "BBC2's most ambitious single documentary ever". Even more excitingly, the show will provide viewers with "intimate access to John and his wife Pauline". Yummy.

With a running time of three hours, it probably isn't going to be very pretty (unless ol' Prezza stays behind the camera). However, the concept of the show, in which the Labour MP investigates "the dreams and aspirations of the richest and the poorest, grapples with political apathy, middle-class syntax snobbery and the wealth gap in modern Britain", sounds midly interesting, to say the least.