Trexx and Flipside

Trexx and Flipside is the new would-be-hit sitcom on BBC3. It's about two young wannabe rappers and their attempts to hit the big time with the help of an incompetent manager, The Mighty Boosh's Rich Fulcher, and his long suffering PA who somehow holds everything together. The BBC are really pushing this, convinced it will appeal to a youth market they're desperate to attract. They're even encouraging fans to add Trexx and Flipside as 'friends' on social networking sites like Bebo and Facebook.
Which is fine, except for one thing. The show isn't funny. At all. With its plot centred around struggling musicians and the action broken up by comedy raps the show seems to want to be a hip-hop Flight of The Conchords but it just doesn't have any of that show's wit and comic sophistication. In fact, strip out some of the language and mature themes, stick it on Cbeebies and it could be crap Nineties kid-com 'No Sweat' for a whole generation.
In fact, the show is so feeble it's a struggle to think how it ever got past the drawing board stage. Even after a pilot was commissioned, isn't there somebody checking the scripts, watching the finished results, making sure it's worth screening? It's hard not to suspect that someone at the BBC gave this show the green light because they thought that a show, any show, about hip hop and urban youth would appeal to 'The Kids'.
What I don't get is, when I was a kid, I loved Blackadder and Never Mind The Buzzcocks when it was still Mark Lamarr asking questions about hoary old Rock stars. I liked 'em because they were funny. Is this such an unusual experience? Was every other kid/teen in the nineties crying out for a sitcom about some lads trying to make it in a britpop band?
In any case, isn't one of the few shows that has caught the youth imagination, so far as I can tell, Little Britain? If so, is it because the youth of today can really relate to shrieking transvestites or balding disabled men and their care workers? Does that really say something to them about their lives? Or do they just find it funny?*
And yes I know, I know. I'm not saying anything profound or original here but that's precisely my point. If even I, a stupid call centre lackey, can spot the obvious flaw in current BBC policy then why can't the commissioning editors on the big salaries do it?

*This is something of a grey area I'll admit. Who really knows why people like Little Britain?