Trisha Goddard - Channel Five's version of Jerry Springer... (Trisha)

Member Name: katykicker

Product:	Trisha
Date:	09/06/09 (12 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Easy watching, laughs at some of the unsavoury people on there.

Disadvantages: Very confrontational, lots of angry and aggression.

Trisha is a chat show on Channel 5 which ran from 1998-2005 in the mornings on ITV (now ITV1) and which has been renamed as Trisha Goddard upon moving to 5 (Now Five).

The concept of the show is that it is a chat show which is hosted by Trisha Goddard, there will be people on the show who think that their other half has been cheated or stealing from them or that the baby they are bringing up isn't actually theirs. You will then see both sides of the story as in the partner and the person bringing them on the show and then they will discuss the reasons why and say that they've not done whatever it is etc and then a lie detector or DNA test is carried out and the results revealed (usually in a later show) and then you get to see the reactions of the people involved in the situation, usually either anger, leading to fighting, from the bad result or tears of joy and shouts of "I told you so" by women who probably weren't even sure who the father of the baby was or couldn't remember if they'd had a drunken one night stand!

I don't really enjoy this show but I will watch it from time to time if there is nothing better for me to do, nowhere to go, no chores to be done or nobody to talk to on the phone or online! It currently airs at 10:45am on Channel Five throughout the week and this is quite a good time for Five to get viewers as it is just after the Jeremy Kyle show so people probably switch over from there to carry on with the poor man's viewing.

I am rating the show 2/5 and that is being quite generous as although it does help to iron out differences amongst some people I just think in general these kind of shows bring out the worst in people and anyone decent who does go on the show is generally booed by the audience, catcalled or brought down harshly by the host. The only real saving grace which this show is that Trisha is quite pleasant most of the time when compared to Jeremy Kyle or Jerry Springer.

Summary: A 'chat show' with members of the public checking the DNA of kids or checking up on their partners!