Getting up and getting on with your life may be the best way of how to get your ex girlfriend back. It may sound like an odd tactic; but moping around, feeling sorry for yourself, and phoning her up every time you get drunk saying how much you miss her is definitely not going to work. It is likely that this will have the reverse effect, as you will not be coming across as someone that she will want to be with. If she meets another guy who is charming, confident, and successful then she will not be thinking about you for too much longer.

This is why you have to be ‘that'man. You need to get your act together and stop feeling sorry for yourself. If you have gained a few pounds since you began dating, it is a good idea to get down to the gym, and get back into shape. You also need to build up your self confidence once more, and ensure that whenever you see her, you are on top form. You want her to see that you are in control of your life and are getting on with things, and then you will have more chance of you being able to get your ex back.

It is never a good idea to make her believe that there is someone else on the scene, as this will indicate that you no longer care for her. However you do want her to see that you are going to be attractive to other women; so keep yourself well groomed and maybe even get some new clothes. All of this will make her realise that she doesn’t want to miss out on you as you are a great catch. Now you know how to get your ex back, you have no excuse!

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Have you ever stopped to wonder why reality television programmes have become so tremendously popular? After all, they now take up an enormous part of our viewing schedule. ‘Big Brother’, ‘Coach Trip’, ‘I’m a Celebrity’, ‘Britain’s Got Talent’, ‘The X Factor’; it seems as though many of the public simply cannot get enough of this type of entertainment. But why? What is it that makes ‘reality’ TV so universally appealing?

As you have probably guessed from my tone of text; I am no great fan of these television shows. Personally I think they are banal, pointless and utterly boring. I find them just as stimulating as watching paint dry or carrying out an online search for the latest great hr software …

Perhaps reality shows are so sought after simply because people enjoy watching other people making complete asses of themselves. Nah, that can’t be right surely… Because if that were the case, then the viewing figures for The House of Lords would go right through the roof!

Maybe people see reality television as a type of ‘social education’… Could it be that viewers tune in to these shows to learn how to behave on a day-to-day basis? If so, then God help us! After all, the ‘stars'of such programmes are not exactly good role models.

Could it all tied up with voyeurism, perhaps? Besides, (and let’s be honest here) there is a little part in each of us that delights in being a bit nosey sometimes! It can be jolly good fun to have a sneaky peep into the lives of others…

Or maybe it is something far more terrible than any of the above. More terrible, in fact, than all of these things put together! Perhaps (shudder at the thought) programme makers are at rock bottom in the ideas department. If so, then reality TV shows are the perfect answer to this quandary, aren’t they? Reality TV is super-cheap to make and there is certainly no shortage of would-be participants. Humiliation, degradation and social castration; all for that special fifteen minutes of ‘fame’…

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The other day I was at my girlfriend’s place generally lazing around when suddenly she went ‘OMG’ and darted to the TV set. In those brief seconds, my mind panicked. Had aliens attacked us? Was there a tornado at our doorstep? Or horror of horrors, was a family member involved in a serious accident? I watched dumfounded as she raced not to miss even a second of the TV show, ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’.

Now mind you, this has been running from before I was born. I know because my mother once told me this. She used to be an avid watcher too. But then, by some fortunate stroke of destiny, sanity prevailed. My girlfriend in the meantime had tuned in to the relevant channel and was hanging to every word and gesture of the characters, all of whom seemed to have been caught in a time warp. I was forgotten. Not just me, the world was forgotten! I knew she watched this show regularly, but this was the first time I was getting a feel of the real thing. She was like a woman possessed!

For the next thirty minutes, I could well have been a display stand in some forgotten corner of a shop. Eyes glued to the TV, she hung on to every word like as though infinite wisdom was being dispersed to the needy. I wondered what would happen if the house were to catch fire that very instant. Would the fire be doused or would the last frame be gazed upon wide eyed as the hungry flames consumed all?

All said and done, this is one show that has run through generations. But what is it that millions around the world find so compelling about the show? There’s basically no story – just gestures, looks and a lot of irritating background music as some grossly dressed characters move around stiffly.

I give up; I’ll never figure it out. I am not sure I want to either!

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I will admit to having watched a couple of episodes of TOWIE (that’s “The Only Way is Essex” if you’ve been living under a rock for the last two years) and kind of enjoyed the trashy blondes with their gallons of spray-on tan, tantrums and (fake) tiaras. OK, they clearly only had a couple of brain cells between them, and made the stars of US shows like ’The Hills'look like a graduating class from Oxford, but it was perfect hangover TV; the kind of show which you don’t need to engage your brain in order to understand or enjoy.

But has MTV gone too far with its latest reality TV venture, a UK version of the popular ’Jersey Shore'set in Newcastle? Jersey Shore has become the programme that Americans love to hate, with fashion labels requesting that the stars stop wearing their clothes and with many bars in Atlantic City banning the cameras because they’re always followed by trouble. ’Geordie Shore'will have to go some to match that kind of reputation, but in a city that’s well known for its brassy blondes and moronic Gazza-esque guys, the producers have somehow managed to scrape the bucket for the show’s current cast…

In fact, the Geordie Shore boys and girls are so obnoxious, so arrogant and so damn nasty to each other and anyone and everyone who crosses their path that it actually isn’t entertaining. Whereas the TOWIE bitching is funny, because of the ludicrous name-calling and frequent language errors, GS is rather like watching the clever kid being bullied in the playground by the girls who aren’t actually pretty and cool, but who think they are. I’d rather work on my quote for tin bespoke solutions than watch it; and when I say that about a reality TV show, you know it must be bad!

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If you’d have told someone, a hundred years ago, “Guess what? In the future there’s going to be this thing called reality TV and it’ll basically not be TV at all, but just filming what really happens,” they probably would have looked at you very strangely at first – because you were wearing clothes from the future and such strange oddities as trainers – and then shouted “hang him!” (Or hang her, if you are a she.)

And they’d have been right to query this…because, let’s be honest, reality TV is really quite strange. There was no way anyone could have really seen it coming, yet here it is, and it is here to stay…

Big Brother, of course, produced and devised originally by Netherlands company Endemol, is naturally the most famous of all reality TV shows (swiftly followed by the I’m a Celebrity… series which does not really deserve a full mention here!). Devised to take a load of misfits – usually who all have abrasive personalities and would never ordinarily meet in everyday life – and throw them all together in a kind of crude lion’s-den scenario, the series has been a major worldwide hit and caused dozens of other TV production companies to jump on this ever-popular bandwagon.

Series after series saw new foolish contestant after new contestant

And for a while it looked like reality TV would never end. Series after series saw new foolish contestant after new contestant, from fitness-freaks who can’t live without their newton running shoes and cycling shorts to beauty queens who refuse to leave their bedroom without their hair-dryer in hand and a perm on top.

Then it ended. Finally. Some were delighted. Others were appalled. But nobody, at least, could argue that reality TV hadn’t had a good innings.

For a while it looked as though that was it. Then, of course, a new twist hit the genre: the faux reality TV series.

Turn on the TV at the wrong time now – or right time, if you’re one of the millions who is as addicted to these TV shows as they are the social networks – and you might be accosted by any number of series; from those featuring the infamous Kardashians, to those featuring Geordies and Essex girls galore.

So you have to ask yourself: is this the end of the reality genre? Or is there more to come?

I wish it was the end, because enough is enough now, but I have a horrible feeling that it’s just the beginning of this new perversion…

What do you think?

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Ah, this news of a new Junior Apprentice coming soon was like music to my ears. If you saw the last series – the first of its kind, if I am not mistaken – then you will know what I mean.

It went like this:

Take a load of dorky kids with massive egos and put them in front of Lord Sugar himself. Then set them hideous tasks, such as, horror of horrors, working together as a team and forcing one another to stay up past their bed time! Oh, I know, it’s TERRIBLE…

Then come the challenges. Devised by Alan’s ruthless streak to scare the crap out of all the contestants and teach them a thing or two about business, each one saw a mixture of massive hormones, huge bigheadedness and enormous convoluted dreams to take over the world. I’m not even joking. These kids really did want to take over the world.

Seriously, it made my day and made me feel lucky to now be fully grown

Fast forward to half-way through the series and they were suffering. Now with a much better %u2013 and much more putrid and sickening %u2013 idea of what being an adult is all about, they are forced to be even more…business-ey…to the very end when the final tasks separates…well, the ones with pubic hair from the ones yet to acquire that privilege. Seriously, many of them look so young and fragile that when you hear what comes out of their mouth — lots of talk about experience and insight — it’s like you’re watching demons host some massive corporate evil puppet-show.

I may make a mockery of the series — and for good reason, please, do listen to some of their quotes on Youtube — but in truth there were things about this series that I loved more than the adult Apprentice. One of them was how young they all looked. Young and innocent. Like lambs to a very bloody slaughter. In other words: great TV! Fantastic TV! The kind of TV that you can watch over and over again. Other peoples falling has never been so pleasurable to watch and enjoy! (Seriously, it made my day and made me feel lucky to now be fully grown.)

So this, my old buddy old pal, is why I am looking forward to the new series of this fantastic show. It’s sure to be absolutely loaded with mini bespoke designer suits and all kinds of worrying claims made by people who are scarcely old enough to buy milk yet. Now, wouldn’t you agree with me that all this amounts to TV gold?

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I was around my girlfriend’s house a few weeks ago after a night out and we were having one of those lazy Sunday’s in front of the television. Usually I like to catch up with some Doctor Who or a decent sit com on iPlayer but all of her housemates were in as well so I didn’t really have much say in the matter. In these types of situations I don’t necessarily want to watch a documentary about Doug Hyde but something that is going to be entertaining and at the same time mildly stimulating.

What was put on for our entertainment was some repeat episodes of The Only Way Is Essex, a programme that I’d heard a few things about but never actually had the misfortune of actually watching until this particular moment.

Now such rubbish has never taken me aback. Firstly it doesn’t really know what it wants to be, is it a documentary or is it a drama? It is clear that somebody wants to get away with producing something very cheaply without having to pay any proper actors, writers or script editors. There is nothing natural or real about it in any way shape or form and the people in it just make me slightly nauseous.

I ended up having an argument with my girlfriend because as far as I’m concerned if we accept this as entertainment then what else are we going to accept? It is no surprise that we now have Channel Four jumping on the bandwagon with Made In Chelsea, it’s not long before all networks start to dumb down the quality of what they produce.

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The original Doctor Who series aired from 1963 to 1989 in the UK. In 2005, it was brought back by the BBC in a new light. Several actors have played the role of the Doctor, and continuity is given to the role by saying that the Doctor takes a new personality and body when the lead actor changes. From 2010 onwards, the role of the Doctor has been played by Matt Smith.

The Doctor’s enemies include Daleks (who are mutant creatures from a planet called Skaro), Cybermen (who are humanoids) and Davros (a genius scientist from Skaro). His arch enemy, however, is The Master, a Time Lord with an expertise for regenerating himself. The Master first appeared in the series in 1971. John Simm is the most recent actor to have played this role in the series.

This popular television series has also resulted in the development of various types of related merchandise. Books and DVDs on Doctor Who have become a must-have for fans of the series.

Doctor Who has also won many UK awards such as the BAFTA, National Television Awards and British Academy Television Awards. It has also won awards in the US, winning the “Best International Series” Award at the Saturn Awards function in 2008.

Doctor Who’s impact on British popular culture cannot be emphasized enough. This is one television series that has different generations of viewers, from real estate agents to red diesel suppliers, still watching the show.

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Top Gear’s presenters are Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. An added attraction is the anonymous test car driver known as “The Stig”. The series'presenters have gained an iconic status due to their knowledge, style of presentation and great humour.

The show is divided into various segments. These segments are races (where the presenters race a featured car against a chosen mode of transport), challenges (where the presenters take on wacky challenges related to cars), celebrity (where celebrities are made to take a test lap around the Top Gear track in ordinary, middle-class people’s cars) and Power Laps (where The Stig races cars on the Top Gear track to test their performance). New segments that have been added to the programme include The Cool Wall, where the presents ascertain which cars are “cool” and Unusual reviews (where the presenters review a car using unusual challenges).

Top Gear has also received its fair share of accolades and awards. It has won an Emmy Award in 2005 and the UK National Television Award between 2006-08 and 2011. It was also nominated for the BAFTA Awards between 2004-06. Channel 4’s survey in 2009 found that Top Gear was the decade’s best programme, according to respondents.

There have been attempts to replicate Top Gear’s success by having localised versions of the programme in Australia, Russia and the US. However, these localised versions were shelved due to lack of viewer interest.

Top Gear’s closest competitor in the automobile television series segment is Fifth Gear, which is hosted by many of Top Gear’s former presenters. Still, Top Gear remains at first place.

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Chris Colfer let it slip that he will be back at McKinley High, like that’s a surprise - however, a nice one, albeit a bit expected! Who other than Kristin Chenoweth can pull off a song that keeps you reeling from the after effects? She’s going to be singing “It’s 10 a.m. and I’m Drunk.” Ryan Murphy, the sly fox that he is, hinted that Blaine, Kurt’s love interest will be sharing their first dance at the upcoming prom in season 3. That sounds exciting in more than one way, join two hotties together and you get a bang.

We’re hoping that Will and Emma, somehow find a way to be together, but there’s no concrete evidence as of yet. Mathew Morrison told the crowd that they’re “star crossed lovers” and hopes to see things work out. That’s not very much to go on but it’ll keep the fans hoping. Amber Riley, finally, will have somebody to love too! Hints have it that she might find herself a boy toy in the upcoming season. Seems about time too, and who can ever forget Brittany and Satana? Well the producers have decided that the end of season 2 will focus more on Santana and her growth as a person.

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