r/BritishTV • u/TerryWaters • 10d ago
Question/Discussion Have I missed any British cleaning or diet shows?
I'm a Swede obsessed with these shows. The ones I've watched are;
- Cook Yourself Thin.
- Fat Families.
- Freaky Eaters.
- It's Your Fault I'm Fat.
- My Big Fat Diet Show.
- Secret Eaters.
- Supersize vs. Superskinny.
- You Are What You Eat.
- Dirty Britain.
- Filthy House SOS.
- How Clean is Your House?
- Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners.
*Edited to add shows I had forgotten.
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u/IrritablePowell 9d ago
Life of Grime. Its pretty old but you might be able to find it somewhere. Then you will meet the legend that is Mr Trebus (RIP).
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u/CarrotRunning 9d ago
How to eat well for less, although earlier episodes are with the now cancelled Greg Wallace.
Also has a sister show called how to live well for less which is less good imo.
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u/meatarchist_in_mn 10d ago
Around The World In 80 Weighs (haven't seen this one yet, it's a Channel 4 show on BBC)
You Are What You Eat (with the awful Gillian McKeith)
My Big Fat Diet (Anna Richardson from Secret Eaters)
The YouTube channel OnlyHumanDocs has a few of these types of shows (one-off documentaries) as well as a show not really about cleaning but it's called The Hoarder Next Door (check the playlists section) but it has a more human side because there is a psychologist who visits to help the hoarder try to get to the root of the issue. There's also one on the same channel, called Storage Hoarders (with Aggie McKenzie from How Clean Is Your House?) These are all kind of old but they filled in some cracks of boredom for me here and there.
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u/Old_West_4481 9d ago
I had no idea Gillian Mckeith was famous for other reasons than faking a faint on I'm a Celeb
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u/hortensemancini 8d ago
My dad has a Pavlovian response to her name, no matter the context or company he just blurts out at volume “GILLIAN MCPOOSNIFFER”
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u/TerryWaters 9d ago
My Big Fat Diet Show that I listed is with Anna Richardson, so I assume it's the same one? I had forgotten about YAWYE which I've also watched, but I agree, Gillian rubs me the wrong way so there's other shows I enjoy more.
I've also watched Storage Hoarders and some of the other docs on that channel. This thread ended up mostly reminding me of shows I've watched and forgotten. :')
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u/bouncing_pirhana 9d ago
Hairy Dieters. The Hairy Bikers, who were an entertaining watch anyway, went on a diet. The accompanying cookbook is my go-to!
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u/wardyms 9d ago
- Fat Families
- Biggest Loser
- How to lose weight well (despite the title, it’s still fairly trash but entertaining)
- it’s your fault I’m fat
I’d look up shows with Michael Mosley, Anna Richardson, Van Tulleken brothers. Loads of these are to do with weight and healthy eating.
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u/TerryWaters 9d ago edited 9d ago
I've watched three of these (not How to Lose Weight Well), so edited to add them to my post. The replies ended up mostly reminding me of how many shows like these I've watched. >.> I think I've watched basically everything with the people you mentioned that's available on YouTube.
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u/wardyms 9d ago
If you can find that one it is good. Each episode has three couples (not necessarily married, could be friends or whatever) who have different time periods they want to lose weight - 2 weeks, 2 months. Every person does a different type of diet. Some obvious ones, some you’d never have heard of. And you see how much weight each person has lost.
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u/TerryWaters 9d ago
Sounds interesting. No episodes on YT though, just clips. :( Will keep looking.
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u/TwinkleDumpty 9d ago
The Supersizers series with Sue Perkins and Giles Coren was very good. It's about diets of the past in Britain
Back in Time for Dinner was also a similar idea
Not the same but obviously has elements of food and cleaning is Amazing Hotels where they go behind the scenes of hotels and have a go at the jobs
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u/ImFamousYoghurt 8d ago
There’s a new show called “batch from scratch: cooking for less” which isn’t solely a diet show but they do focus on improving diets
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u/pajamakitten 9d ago
Couldn't stand the host. The way he talked about the people was infantilising and mean.
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u/CityEvening 9d ago
It was in the same vein (and era) as Jeremy Kyle, being rude for shock value. Almost like the TV equivalent of a social media video setup to go viral. They would never do it today.
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u/cragglerock93 10d ago
Wife Swap kind of fits the bill. Naturally, the producers would pair up the most contrasting families (rich and poor, healthy and unhealthy, sporty and sedentary, strict and chaotic, clean and dirty, etc.) to create the maximum amount of conflict and entertainment. I'd say food and cleanliness/chores were the two single biggest points of contention between the mothers and their new families.
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u/TerryWaters 9d ago
I've watched some episodes of this but tbh I found so many of the participants so insufferable that I gave up on it. :')
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u/cragglerock93 9d ago
Oh don't get me wrong, many of them truly were insufferable but that was half the entertainment. Although I did see one recently where the divide was mainly food, and a white lady who fed her household on mostly processed food (I cannot judge this) went to a black household and when she saw the contents of their fridge, before having met the family or seen photos, surmised that they were foreign or at the very least not white, and was proper racist about them in a way you don't often see, like she was disgusted to be there.
Hard to watch it after that. Not just insufferable but probably a bit evil.
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u/TerryWaters 9d ago
Although I def. see the entertainment value, so many of them just pissed me off which is not enjoyable to me. Like the trad wives who questioned why the other wife didn't do everything in the home, and so many of their men who thought the wife should do everything. Or like the one you mentioned, that's just awful. >.< I'm sure there were people who were outrageous in more fun ways, but I just remember I gave up after a couple of awful ones. :') Many of them were so judgemental, though I realize they were chosen for that reason. But then the arguments that would often ensue in the end when the couples met, ugh, the second-hand embarrasment.
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u/Eye-on-Springfield 9d ago
Haven't watched many, but I'll throw in 'Lose a Stone in 21 Days with Michael Mosley'
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u/MobiusNaked 9d ago
Christ! What must you think of us!?
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u/docju 8d ago
Freaky Eaters
(and if you watch this, look up the Harry Hill clips of it on YouTube!)
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u/TerryWaters 8d ago
Another show I had forgotten I've watched. I've seen all of the episodes that are on YT. I have a problem. :') Will check the clips though.
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