Quite good really! (Trisha)

Member Name: Insane Tommy

Product:	Trisha
Date:	12/04/02 (220 review reads)
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Advantages: Can relate to the guests, Trisha is fab

Disadvantages: Sometimes Absurd

Being a student I’m always at lectures or in the library so I don’t get to watch much daytime television (If you believe that you’ll believe anything), but Trisha is great to wake up to. I’m not sure whether it differs from region to region but here in the Yorkshire TV area it airs at 9:25am, just after GMTV and lasts about an hour.

It’s filmed at the Anglia TV studios in the greatest city ever, that’s Norwich for the uneducated and I’m told tickets are free but you’d have to ring up Anglia for more information. A couple of years ago it seemed our screens were filled with talk shows en masse. Loads of American imports like Montel and Rikki Lake flooded our screens spurring the development of some real English flumps. Although talk shows haven’t completely disappeared we have been left with only the best.

For me Trisha is the best talk show around. Trisha is a very easy-going show, bridging the gap between serious conversation, that you sometimes find over on Kilroy, with easy going chat, a la Rikki Lake. The layout is typical of its genre, a nice bright studio with a few sofas on a stage where the problematic people sit whilst Trisha prowls through the audience. Trisha has all the attributes you’d expect from a talk-show host. Primarily she has the ability to have everyone at ease and asking some really probing questions and she gets answers. Equally if a guest gets on the wrong side of her se can really get stuck in, it can be quite fascinating viewing.

Trisha must have been running for at least 3 or 4 years now but doesn’t seem to have lost anything. Over the course of a series there is a balance in what issues are dealt with. For the most part they are real issues that can become quite emotional, for example there have been debates on fathering children and rights to see children. Occasionally a really absurd issue is thrown in, like my cousin slept with my da
ughter who is now pregnant but things she’s a man – you know what I mean. I think this is a nice balance because everyone wants a little variety and to be honest I like watching Jerry Springer type fighting between in laws.

I’m finding it quite difficult to pinpoint why I like Trisha so much. I feel that I can relate to the guests, even if I have never experienced the problems they are going through. I have actually been reduced to tears occasionally, I know it’s a little girly of me, but it just highlights how involved I get.

I haven’t really done a very good job of explaining why I like it but I’m a bloke and expression doesn’t come naturally to me. Any show that can get me hooked at that time of a morning has to have something about it. It’s worth switching on even if it’s just going to be on in the background.

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