The other day, while flipping TV channels, I chanced upon one of those American makeover programmes – the kind where a team of volunteers marches into a desperate family’s life, pulls down their house and builds them a new one inside seven days. It’s incredibly cheesy but I’ve been addicted to Extreme Makeover – Home Edition ever since.
Quite apart from the fact that a couple of the presenters are very funny (incredibly, some Americans do understand irony!), it is also the sort of feel-good programme that makes viewers cry into their hankies and resolve to be nicer to their neighbours….
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