Ranking Peter Kay TV Series From Worst To Best

Though the sheer volume of them has cooled somewhat in recent years, TV talent shows, particularly those focused on singing such as The X-Factor, will presumably return to schedules en masse once the loosening of restrictions on mass gatherings allows them to.

Kay’s Britain’s Got the Pop Factor… and Possibly a New Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice, was a send-up of such shows released in 2008. Playing Geraldine McQueen, one of the finalists in a fictitious competition, he drew laughs for parodying the overemphasis on personal ‘tragedies’ that are seemingly a prerequisite for progression within them, whilst showing his range by performing entirely in drag.

The fact that the project was only a two-parter (the talent show and a follow-up ‘winner's documentary’) works against it from a legacy standpoint, but Kay did reprise the role of Geraldine for the release of three music singles and their accompanying videos.

Though none of them reached number one, in contrast to three of the songs he put together for Comic Relief, the first two were hilarious pastiches of the ‘winner’s songs’ hastily put out to capitalise on X-Factor winners whilst they are still in the limelight and Christmas songs in general. The third, a duet of 'I Knew Him So Well' with Susan Boyle, didn’t spoof any type of song in particular but it was certainly a ‘different’ rendition of the Chess classic.