Just been watching Changing Rooms on BBC America. No, that doesn't make me reflect on the manliness of my tv viewing habits. Come on chaps, remember after all, this IS America so you can imagine what is available to watch on TV. In fact a peanut could imagine what is on tv over here!

Meanwhile back somewhere near the plot.....

They did the usual thing of going to people's houses and changing them into something of (usually) great taste. But my issue with the whole thing is about the husband/boyfriends part in all this. At the start when they get into the other people's house to appear to discuss with them what the room should be turned into, the male (who will no doubt be working AND responsible for any mishaps along the way) seems to fade from view. The women of the piece get on with what colours go where, and what would look "Great, painted over that antique wordwork...etc". The chap just seems to go into the background like an extra in a movie. Once the end of the show arrives, the man is simply there for TVBackup. That is, if the woman doesn't like it, or isn't 'telly' enough, they can ask him, in his obviously limited and tasteless world, what HE thinks. But according to BBC regulations, they must try and ask the woman at least THREE times what she thinks of it all. Even if she is slowly turning red, growing horns, and sprouting paint stripping devices from the ends of her arms, as they, er.. sorry SHE makes her initial assessment of the now altered room.

There is something about the show that you cannot resist. Nobody, and I mean NO-ONE can watch just a bit of that show. Once you watch the demographically stereotypically correct couples exchange keys, with a big smile from Carol, you are hooked. You never think it's going to look like anything and feel just a twinge of smug satisfaction and fake sympathy, when it looks completely stupid, and the woman (not the chap) hates it with a vengance.

They also have an American version in which they usually start in houses that look like they have already been done, and seem to not want to annoy anyone in them, so all they ever do is paint something and make everything completely reversible.
Tame. 2/10