Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife Explained

Genre:Reality
Presenter:Anthea Turner
Narrated:Ella Kenion
Theme Music Composer:Jody Jenkins
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English
Num Series:3
Num Episodes:25
Runtime:60 minutes
Company:RDF Television
Network:BBC Three

Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife (also known as The Perfect Housewife with Anthea Turner[1]) is a reality show that ran on BBC Three from 2006 to 2007 and is hosted by Anthea Turner. In each episode, two housewives are introduced who have difficulties running their home efficiently. Anthea helps them by giving tips in the art of housekeeping, homemaking and hostessing. After a two-week session their homes are revisited and one of the two contestants will be crowned as the Perfect Housewife. Lovely.

Reception

Critics generally considered Perfect Housewife "lightweight".[2] Victor Lewis-Smith, writing in the Evening Standard, thought program was "desperate stuff", with most of the advice of given by Turner in the show being "irrelevant, outdated, or plain wrong", and that the scripts were "truly dreadful".[3] Despite thinking it part of a trend of replacing feminism with confutation between women, Justine Picardie, of The Daily Telegraph, found as Television, it was "strangely compelling viewing".[4]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.deltamusic.co.uk/86265_theperfecthousewifewithantheaturner.php The Perfect Housewife with Anthea Turner DVD
  2. News: Antea Turner . 11 July 2024 . The Independent . 10 March 2006 . 14 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: Lewis-Smith . Victor . Victor Lewis-Smith . There's a Vacuum in Anthea's new show . 11 July 2024 . Evening Standard . 10 February 2006 . A47 . Newspapers.com.
  4. News: Picardie . Justine . Justine Picardie . Anthea Turner's latest series is a new variation on the sex war – a confrontation between women . 11 July 2024 . The Daily Telegraph . 31 March 2006 . 26 . Newspapers.com.