Trash TV

When MTV's 'The Hills' made a success dollar signs must’ve popped up on every TV producers eyes because just in a few years more and more ‘reality TV’ shows are being churned out every few months.

Here in the UK, largely we were exempt from the raw brutality of it, while in America you had to bear shows like ‘The Bachelor’, ‘America’s Next Top Models’, ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ and other shows with decreasing quality.

Or that’s what we thought. 2010: the year of trash TV. Between the previous year and this year: newer and newer ‘shows’ have started coming out: The Only Way is Essex, Made in Chelsea and the latest: Geordie Shore.

You know what’s even worse? We’re hooked. Yes, we know the scripted acting is terrible; and we know the fake tan is literally burning our eyes (which we desperately need in order to read the freakin’ subtitles what with the over-exaggerated accents and remnants of the English language); and we even know that these ‘reality’ shows resemble albeit reality... Yet, we’re hooked.

Personally, I’ve got a theory:
1. The Only Way is Essex: it is amazing at making yourself feel better –honestly, if there’s ever a day you feel your IQ is slipping just watch TOWIE and you’ll feel immensely better (although after, your IQ probably will slip after the mini marathon of vaggazling).

2. Made in Chelsea –TOWIE only less ‘round-the-back-of-ASDAs’ more ‘round-the-back-of-Harrods’. In any case if you ever need a sugar daddy you know where to go (yes, I’m talking to you Amy Childs).

3. Geordie Shore –well I consider it a foreign language lesson. I’ve already learnt so much already: after all how many of you’d know what ‘mortalled’ and ‘tash on’ a few weeks ago?

Trash TV: I honestly hate that I love you, but I do. It’s as though all that orange has some sort of hypnotising power on the helpless public. So much so that when I heard it was the series finale of Made in Chelsea I think I almost felt like a little part of me was being ripped out...

So here’s to the Made in Chelsea finale –let’s hope Caggie can make it at least one episode without pouting.