Nina and the Neurons

“Nina”, real name Katrina, feigns excitement that she has a science show, despite no obvious credentials in that department. Anyone can buy a white coat off eBay and be paid to patronise children. The premise is good enough: a few children are set up to ask Katrina a science, engineering or computing related question, then are brought in to the studio to explore and experiment around the topic. However what then follows is Katrina indulging herself for the remainder of the show, giggling irritatingly to camera at every opportunity, with the activities the children carry out generally serving to do anything but answering the original question posed. All this with the help of the catchphrase-cursed Neurons, animated characters supposedly representing the different senses, although the connections are tenuous and contrived at best. At the end, Katrina wishfully announces that the question has been answered, when it invariably has not, but the children dutifully thank her nonetheless – just the culmination of the painful scripting that makes even Katy Ashworth’s cookery shows come across as natural and spontaneous. — David

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