The Riches

"We have weird names."

There’s a promo on C4 for a new show called The Riches.

It looks incredible, but that could be entirely due to Bob Dylan’s Shelter From the Storm playing over the top. It stars Minnie Driver (forever great after her character in Good Will Hunting wins over the lads with that nasty joke) and Eddie Izzard (so talented in so many quite different ways it’s just unfair).

The Riches looks amazing. This could mean that:

a) It is amazing, or
b) The trailer is amazing, the show is merely good.

Either way I’m happy. Often there is nothing better than a trailer so outrageously gorgeous and stirring that it removes any need to see the actual show.

The trailer has Izzard’s character (the dad presumably) saying something like ‘the American Dream… we’re going to steal it’. This line alone means I will be watching the show… so, nice editing Mr Editor-pants.

Fingers crossed.