I've seen some pointless programmes in my time, but Home for Life (BBC Two, Wednesday, 15 July, 8pm) may take some beating. In a time when everyone is flat-broke or worried about the future, it seems rather strange for the BBC to decide to show a programme that wills us on to spend money we just don't have. Still, with a show like Kirstie's Homemade Home, we got tips on how to tart up salvaged tables and all that, which makes sense. Love your home. You have to live in it. However, in this crappy runt of a programme, it simply stood by and watched people prove that money can't buy taste.

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There's something very odd about Britain's need to watch people they don't know doing up a house. I mean, for the most part, we see these people stood by gaping wall holes where someone has ripped a radiator out, or even knocked an entire room down, and endlessly talk numbers. The budget is tight... the figures are being stretched. Effectively, it's a combination of demolition without the fun of a wrecking ball and reading the Financial Times. Yet we still tune in. And so, last night I tuned in for Property Snakes and Ladders (Channel 4, Tuesday, 9 June, 8pm) which saw a new name... but was it a new show?

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Last night, while watching Kirstie's Homemade Home (Channel 4, Thursday, 23 April, 8pm) I once again got complete and utter Lifestyle Envy. The green eyed monster in me briefly overtook common sense and I started to holler, mentally, that this was the most crass show on the box. Economic Meltdown around my ears, and there's Kirstie bloody Allsopp, having a gay old time tarting up an old house... probably not her only home... just for kicks! I mean, the sheer bloody nerve of it! And then, thankfully, that fleeting notion passed and I got lost in Kirstie's world like it was an episode of Rosemary and Thyme.

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Kirstie Allsopp's TV transformation has been quite staggering. If you've flicked over to More4 recently and caught the early shows of Location Location Location Relocation Location, you will have seen just how uptight and awkward she was on camera. Now, she's bullish, ebullient and posho-fun. These are the reasons that she's been given her own show, which started last night. Kirstie's Homemade Home (Channel 4, Thursday, 16 April, 8pm) saw our property lovey considering our credit crunch needs. She showed us all how to mend and make stuff and celebrate local glass-blowers and potters. In fact, she'd made the home equivalent of Hugh's Chicken Run. Lovely, idealistic living... although not necessarily completely practical.

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Gok's one of those TV personalities that completely divide opinion, so I should say from the outset that I'm pro-Gok. Well, it's more a relative thing actually, as I much prefer him to, say, Trinny and Susannah who seem to put people in the same outfit every single week and have rules like Never Wear Colour With Black. Huh? That can't be right, surely?

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Thursday nights are rubbish for telly. There's hardly a thing on worth watching*. That was why I ended up sat in front of 10 Years Younger: The Challenge (Channel 4, Thursday, 19 March, 8pm). Predictably, it was still awful. You see, despite the new cuddly wuddly presenter in Myleene Klass, it's still as nasty and spiteful as ever. In fact, it's even nastier because of the veneer of amiability that presides the whole thing. So, like a grinning killer, the show grabbed Dawn Palmer and Sheila Mortimer by the scrag on their stomachs and flung them into fashion hell.

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What is it with Supersize vs Superskinny (Channel 4, Tuesday, 3 March, 8pm)? I mean, I've no idea what it's trying to tell us. Of course, I recognise that it's doing a good thing by saying 'Look, we've all been banging on about fatties for ages, but really skinny people aren't cool either, y'know?'... but honestly, I'm not sure I learn a damn thing when I watch the show. The clue hangs on the word 'too'. Too fat? Bad. Too skinny. Also bad. So how do they manage to drag it out for an hour?

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I watched, and pretty much enjoyed, the original series of It's Not Easy Being Green (BBC Two, Wednesday, 11 February, 8) which featured Dick Strawbridge and his family building The Greenest House There Ever Was. I enjoyed the ingenuity of the whole thing... turning your own shite into fertiliser and building a waterwheel. It was a bit like Grand Designs, only without the Apple Mac and Zero 7 soundtrack. So, when I saw it in the listings again, I completely ignored it. I thought it was a repeat or worse still, a catch-up show. Last night I tuned and found that the show itself has undergone something of a make-over.

The makeover show that's had a makeover is back to clutter up our screens. Ladies and... well... it's mostly ladies, it's time for 10 Years Younger: The Challenge (Channel 4, Thursday, 5 February, 8pm). So what's new? Well, hilariously, Nicky Hambleton-Jones got booted off the show (leaving her moaning about 'age discrimination') in favour of, who else, Myleene Klass. Not only that, the show itself has been changed to something, well, almost unrecognisable from the previous outing.

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In all honest, I'd watch Oz and James Drink To Britain (BBC Two) instead of Supersize vs Superskinny (Channel 4, Tuesday, 20 January, 8pm) as they occupy the same slot. However, there are some of you out there who will have zero interest in watching a couple of blokes bicker over beer. So what does Supersize... offer? Well, like the last series, it will look at the eating habits of a fat person in contrast to the habits of a skinny wretch. In the interests of fairness, both will be judged just as harshly as the other.

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All the Young Dudes: Pop and Fashion (BBC Four, Thursday, 15 January, 9pm) looks to highlight the relationship between pop music and fashion. Of course, we all know that the two are virtually inseparable (you'd have to be a complete dolt not to know that), but it's always fun to look at the parallels and remind ourselves of the terrible clothes we wore (as a country, as a youth, whatever) to show allegiance to a band.

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Now that the arse has fallen out of the housing market, Relocation Relocation (Channel 4, Wednesday, 7 January, 8pm) was in danger of becoming a completely irrelevant show. I mean, you don't want to be offered advice on something that currently feels like an unattainable dream. However, all is not lost. Relocation Relocation has gone for the TV angle as opposed to the 'helpful advice' schtick. Basically, the show has remembered that it works best when you get complete morons in on the act. Last night's show featured a woman monumentally stupid and gobsmackingly spoiled. So horrendous was she that I immediately knew that we were in for a treat. I like it when my TV has Kirstie and Phil getting angry at idiots on it.

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Kirstie 'You would, wouldn't you?' Allsopp, presenter of Channel 4's Location Location Location, is to veer away from buying houses in favour of home crafts for a new series. The show will be called Kirstie's Homemade Home and is due to air early next year. Viewers will be able to follow Allsopp as she transforms a dilapidated country cottage in Devon into the "ultimate 'homemade' home". Basically, those who have been slagging her (and Phil) for 'making' us buy houses, will be able to see her helping us out now we're all officially skint.

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Hahahahaha. Ha. Ha. Oh dear. Hahahahaha. Sorry, you've just caught me laughing my nappy off at the news that Nicky Hambleton-Jones is all huffy and throwing her toys (of beauty torture) out of the pram after she learned that Channel 4 cheeses are to replace her with Myleene Klass on 10 Years Younger. Hahahahahaha! Apparently, it's a "slap in the face". Hahahahaha! What's even better is that Little Miss Lucifer is bring ageism into the row! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

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Gok Wan is a rare and strange creature. Made entirely of angles, Gok is akin to a saucy woman trapped inside the body of a repressed gay man with the attitudes of a bricklayer. How many people can you say that about? Gok is so unusual that I've come to the conclusion that he's actually a robot that has been fitted with a functioning human heart... and if that's the case, I can't to see Gok Wan meet Gok's Two, Three and Four. Of course, Gok isn't really the star of How To Look Good Naked (Channel 4, Tuesday, 2 December, 8pm). Nope, the real star of the show is women in various states of undress.

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There's been a lot of brouhaha about property shows of late. People have been saying "HOW DARE THESE PEOPLE TALK ABOUT HOUSES?!? THE GREAT LUMPEN GRIEF MONGERS!" I've poked fun at the whole thing too... but by and large, the reaction to TV property shows has been a little hysterical. I mean, it's not like TV property peeps have been going around setting fire to dogs and laughing at poor people is it? So with that, I tuned into Location, Location, Location (Channel 4, Monday, 17 November, 9pm) to see what a post credit crunch property show looked like... and it was really weird.

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People don't know what to do with themselves anymore. Once, their house was the bastion of security. It was a dead-cert for making money with the right tweaks and the knocking down of walls. The gardens of Britain weren't so much a bit of outdoor space, but rather, an extension of the self. Houses and their gardens were the most important things in the entire world. Then the market crashed and everyone started watching Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall to see how to grow stuff in your garden and Ray Mears to see what the best way to survive on bracken while waiting for the first measly crop... but what happens if your outdoor space is covered in concrete and stupid water features? Well, Wild About Your Garden (BBC One, Wednesday, 19 November, 8.30pm) is here to undo all that work.

I do love settling down in front of the Antiques Roadshow. It's such a perfect Sunday night show. Last night, I was particularly excited (okay, "excited" may be too strong a word... how about intrigued?) because I'd read that the show featured the most valuable item they'd ever, er, valued.