The Brit Awards 2024, TV review: Kylie Minogue and Raye dazzled but the rest was dull

The Brit Awards (ITV) have always been a shambles but down the decades there was always some entertainment value mixed in with the chaos. In recent years, however, the UK music industry’s annual back-slapping extravaganza has pivoted towards a sort of flailing dreariness – and this year’s ITV broadcast was a toe-curler for ages.

Clocking in at an exhausting two-and-half-hours, the ceremony was rocky from the start – and that was just the Dua Lipa dancers who had drawn the short straw and were forced to stand on one another’s shoulders and loom, wobbling, over the singer as she belted out a song that wasn’t the one every knew from Barbie.