Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife


Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife 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". 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thought program was "desperate stuff", with most of the advice of given by Turner in the show being "irrelevant, outdated, or plain wrong", and that the scripts were "truly dreadful". 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".

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