The actor Philip Glenister, star of the BBC's excellent retro-drama Life on Mars, is attempting to park a Ford Escort between two other cars.

Unfortunately he's not making a very good job of it. He's already thumped into the Fiat Uno in front, before deciding to select reverse and a frankly inadvisable amount of revs, which sends him cannoning into the Saab behind.

Now he's mounted the pavement, knocked over a litterbin, stalled, and re-started the car to inflict yet more paint-scraping damage on the poor Escort's already scarred front wing.

Worse still, his ham-fisted reverse-park efforts are happening not in some secluded car park, but bang slap in the middle of a massive studio in front of a live audience and five TV cameras.

Mind you, Glenister has got a pretty watertight excuse for such inept behaviour: he's wearing a blindfold. Welcome to the strange world of Petrolheads.

Starting this week, Petrolheads is a new panel show about cars. It's what would happen if you fused Never Mind The Buzzcocks with Top Gear, and then ran it all through the fetid mind of an adolescent teenager.

Appropriately enough, it's presented by Neil Morrissey, who has the hairstyle of a teenager, with regular team captains Richard Hammond, who has the physique of a teenager, and Red Dwarf's Chris Barrie, who really should know better.

As well as blindfolding celebrity guests and then making them park a car, upcoming attractions include a dual-control car challenge (in which only the passenger can work the pedals), a bet on how many cows a milkfloat can jump, and a race through a supermarket on old people's mobility carriages.