SO Carry On Council's set to hit our TV screens this autumn.

While you've got to applaud Blackburn with Darwen Council's decision to allow a film crew to produce a fly-on-the-wall documentary, don't you think councillors and officers are being a touch naive if they think it will do anything to enhance their reputation?

Surely a clue as to what the TV company is hoping for can be gained from the proposed title of the programme - Are You Being Serviced? It hardly sounds like the name of an incisive, heavyweight documentary.

Council leader Sir Bill Taylor is clearly in favour of the idea, describing it as 'a great opportunity'.

Now, either Sir Bill doesn't possess a TV set, or if he does he must never watch any of the 'real life' documentaries that fill our screens.

As any regular viewer will tell him, the reason these programmes work is because they leave the audience gasping at the antics which people get up to.

The only purpose such programmes serve is to make celebrities - and I use the term in the loosest possible sense - out of people such as Jeremy Spake from Airport or, worse still, The Cruise's Jayne MacDonald.

As for the viewpoint that the council will be portrayed in a positive light, I get the feeling that such optimism may be wildly off the mark.

Nonetheless when the programme airs in October no doubt we will all be watching - it'll certainly beat Pop Idol.