CREATIVITY and innovation is hard because all the best ideas have already been had.

Jaguar E-Type? You’re not going to better that. Cheese and ham toastie? Pure perfection. Socks? That design is unbeatable, as the aberration that are toe socks attests.

Maybe that’s why ITV keeps bringing back classic shows – Catchphrase, Celebrity Squares. Family Fortunes, Through the Keyhole – and now Stars In Their Eyes (ITV1, Saturdays, 7pm).

This reboot is fronted by Harry Hill who starts as he means to go on by opening the first episode singing a cover of Pharrell’s Happy wearing a very large hat while giant 'Despicable Me’ minions (cunningly altered in design to avoid copyright, probably) dance awkwardly in the background.

What follows is a 45-minute-long Harry Hill sketch show interspersed with normal people singing covers neither astoundingly well, not cringingly awfully. The ratio of singing to Harry Hill arseing about is 1:3.

Aside from Harry Hill larking about, the other notable feature is the quality of make-up and hair design (there is not really a lot else going on so you notice these things). It is so good I bet their team would cheerfully take on the task of making me look like Biggie Smalls, once the cameras had been safely packed away and the studio doors locked to ensure no audience members can get in to see what the hell was going on. Its actually kind of depressing to think emotionally exploitative shows like The X Factor can actually trace their lineage back to Stars In Their Eyes as, at its heart, the show is innocence. Innocence best epitomised in a trophy which makes my gong for Best Boy at Prospect Technology College in 2004 look like the Stanley Cup and giving people the chance to sing on live TV as their favourite star – much like how this column allows me to impersonate a TV critic.

What I’m Looking Forward To This Week

Pets – Wild at Heart (BBC1, Wednesday 8pm) is the answer as the internet law of cuteness dominates all digs its claws further into television.

Oh, and David Tennant has been cast in the role of Attenborough.