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Last Chair Standing

By Chris  |  Mon 25th Aug 2008 at 2.18pm

Category: Television

An imaginary typo has been buzzing around in my head recently: the BBC’s latest ratings winner (yawn…) is called ‘Last Choir Standing’. What would have happened if a senior tv production executive, being unable to read his own handwriting, had believed the title was really ‘Last Chair Standing’? Would it — could it? — have turned into a contest to find a Thomas Chippendale for the 21st century? Help me out here, somebody…