In 2010 a documentary aired as part of BBC3′s Adult Season which focused on fourteen year old Georgia Howes, who in some respects was more mature than her mother who she argued with about her future on a regular basis.

There’s nothing particularly strange about this until you realise that Georgia’s mother is glamour model Alicia Douvall, a woman who has made a living sleeping with famous men and then selling the stories to the tabloids. In this follow-up we see Georgia now at college aged 16, the same age that Alicia was when she gave birth to her, and more assured of what she wants to do academically with the rest of her life. Things change once again though when Alicia falls pregnant on Georgia’s 16th birthday and in the opening scenes of this documentary we find the pair preparing for the birth by changing the layout of the flat to the extent that Georgia will have her own room for the first time in her life, as her mother needs more room for the baby.

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As this week’s TV is dominated by football it’s becoming harder and harder to seek out TV highlights however there are still some gems in the schedule if you look hard enough.

Desperate Housewives (E4, Sun, 10pm)
So after eight years of outrageous behaviour, jumps into the future and numerable affairs its time to say goodbye to the girls of Wisteria Lane as Huffman, Hatcher, Longoria and Cross all bid us adieu. In true Desperate Housewives style there is plenty going on including a birth, a death and a wedding as well as the usual supernatural twist in a ‘ghosts of Wisteria Lane’ section. Pivotal to all of this though is Karen McClusky here is terminally ill and is the star of the final episode by far made even more poignant by the death of actress Kathryn Joosten. As some may say this is the end of an era however I feel the show did have a good run and is leaving before it became too preposterous for its own good.

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