Artistic License: Harnessing girl power

If Lucy Kennedy is wise, she will have been avoiding the newspapers of late. The reviews for her latest adventure in television, The Lucy Kennedy Show, on RTE Two, have been wince-inducingly dreadful - and, unfortunately for Kennedy, who seems bright and likeable enough, they are completely deserved.

The weaknesses of the show are manifold: Kennedy has poor comedy writers penning her gags, a terrible roster of guests (basically, anyone they could find ...