Genius is a comedy game show on BBC Two, adapted from the original radio series hosted by the comedian Dave Gorman.

[1] Genius involves various members of the public suggesting their ideas for strange and unusual inventions and schemes.

Ideas include fitting a second hood to coats in order to protect dates from the rain,[2] comb-unders for men who cannot grow beards,[3] and increasing tourism to the Isle of Wight by making it symmetrical.

[5] The set for the first series was designed with a rotating stage on which the contestants enter and leave the studio – a reference to the game show Blankety Blank.

"[7] Anna Lowman from TV Scoop also commented on the show saying: "This isn't groundbreaking TV - if anything it felt slightly '90s in its Room 101-ness - and the unnecessarily huge studio gave a strange atmosphere to proceedings at times.

He wrote that: "The show may have had charm on radio but now it's transferred to the box with Dave Gorman hosting, you can obviously see the would-be genii and they just look mad.

Madder still, though, is the set designer who went to the trouble of creating the revolving stage complete with dry ice – and in the first edition, a model of a 100m running track to illustrate how lazy people would line up in running shoes 98.2 metres high and forward-flop over the finish line.

It takes four years for Stewart Lee – a comedian with 17 years' experience – to get a six-part series; yet in Genius wholly inexperienced members of the public are expected to deliver five minutes of broadcast-quality improvised material at the drop of a hat.

– Genius 1) The bespoke multi-bladed razor head mould: to make shaving quicker.

– Not a Genius 2) Placing prisoners on exercise bikes attached to the national power grid.

– Winning Genius 1) Dating insurance: Pay a pound per week, and the person who is dumped gets all of the money.