Janet Street-Porter on the new American television import Desperate Housewives in today's Independent, under the headline "The banality of American popular culture":
From The Office to Little Britain, the best television in the world starts here [the UK]. We are capable of constantly reinventing formats, revisiting classic series, and pushing the boundaries of taste with reality television and original documentaries.This from one of the Z-list celebrities who took part in the third series of I'm A Celebrity.... It makes you worry that:
[O]ur society, warts and all, is reflected through our television screens.
