As I sat down to watch this new Five show, I didn’t expect to like it at all. I thought it was going to be full of vapid, shallow women and a leering, sex starved farmer. And it was, which made it compulsive viewing.

I’d thought all those elements would put me off, but they were in fact what made it worth looking at. It was the TV equivalent of junk food and one of those ‘guilty pleasures’ shows. The ones you’d never admit to watching but would secretly record if you couldn’t watch it alone.

Of course dating shows are nothing new; there’ve been dozens of them, but this one is sort of a new concept in that it’s picked one profession – farming – and sifted through the applicants to find suitably eligible bachelor farmers with whom literally hundreds of women would like to get their hands, and other bits, dirty. Read more & comment »