I missed the third outing of this show when it was on originally but I managed to catch it last night on BBC3, and I’m glad I did… the show and the people in it just get more intriguing.

The parents are fun to watch too; putting ordinary parents in a room together and making them criticise each others kids would be hard enough, but putting these uber-devoted parents together is a real stroke of genius. The tensions are palpable as they all have to decide who’s got to go. I can see that segment of the show becoming a real maelstrom of emotion as the kids get picked off.

Anyway, as always, this week, the kids had to do a decent day’s work and keep the house clean and stick to a budget, and as always, they didn’t all do very well. In fact, most of them did a pretty pants job of the whole shebang actually. Read more & comment »

The second instalment of this show was every bit as entertaining as the first, and every bit as maddening. Throughout the tantrums, tears and general five year old like behaviour of the remaining miscreants, I had to chew my cushion in order to stop myself hurling abuse at the innocent bearer of the message, my TV.

And the message it bore yet again last night was that if the kids taking part in this show are a representation of the future of our world, we’re in deep doodoo.

Not a great deal had changed from last week for the girls; Nicola still looks and acts like a bulldog chewing a wasp and everything makes her cry, including work and cleaning. The only thing that makes her happy it would seem is smoking and yelling at her mother. Read more & comment »

This was one of those programmes that anyone with blood pressure problems really shouldn’t watch because it’ll wind you up so badly. I personally can’t watch Supernanny because it just makes my blood boil at the ludicrousness of watching grown adults cowed and weeping because of a despot three year old. Well this show was rather similar except it demonstrated what’ll happen in twenty years or so if you spoil your kids rotten when they’re little.

The show took eight young people between the ages of 17 and 25 – who’d never done a day’s work and lived off their parents – and plonked them in a house. Dina, Orion, Danielle, Sean, Nicola, Jay, Rachel and Dogan – pronounced Dohan – varied in the degree of their obnoxiousness. Coming top for me in the obnoxiousness stakes were Nicola – who looks like a demonic Spaniel – Danielle, Dina and Dogan, in that order, for reasons pertaining to their total lack of respect for anything or anyone… Read more & comment »