Normally, I’d do two separate reviews of shows that were on last night, as regular visitors to the site will know, but given that both these shows were about weight loss, I decided to cover both in one article, primarily to ask why is it that are there so many programmes about weight on at the moment?!

The shows are all about either being overweight or underweight but it would appear if the words ‘fat’ or ‘thin’ are in the title, it’s going to be coming to a screen near you very soon…

We’ve had Supersize Me, Superskinny Vs Superfat, The Biggest Loser… in fact, there are just too many to list and then last night, we had these two shows, both on the BBC; Fix My Fat Head on BBC1 and Claire Richards: My Big Fat Wedding on BBC3. Is Aunty Beeb trying to tell us something?? Have the government had secret talks with them to use some kind of subliminal messaging to make us all lose weight?

Well, there is an obesity epidemic apparently, which, while not being as much of a swine as the ‘flu one, still involves piggin’ out… Read more & comment »