Pothole WarsITV★★★☆☆CatastropheChannel 4★★★★☆One way to come up with factual-programming ideas must surely be simply to open the newspapers, land your finger randomly in the home news pages and see what story lies beneath. It could be council complaints about “fatbergs” in our sewers (six months later: Fatberg Autopsy), the threat to prison order due to grim new drugs (hey presto, Channel 4’s hard-hitting Prison) or even something as electrifying as the latest pothole statistics. Mark Morrell inspects the Kennington roads in Pothole Wars ITVDid you know that last year the number of motorists winning compensation for car damage caused by potholes more than doubled? Incidents of cyclists injuring themselves has trebled. And so, Pothole Wars, which despite sounding promisingly like a lost Monty…

Source: The Times January 16, 2019 00:00 UTC