Reality TV – from here to maternity - Television

Reality TV – from here to maternity

Who knew reality TV could be funny, revealing and tender?

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15th September, 2012

Short of the Apocalypse, there’s no end in sight to the parade of tasteless spectacles, from Embarrassing Bodies to the news hour, to which we are subjected every night. But before you fire off that complaint to the Broadcasting Standards Authority, it’s worth remembering that even Mother Nature at her finest comes with a viewer discretion warning. As a new TV1 series demonstrates, the maternity ward of Leeds General Infirmary is awash with nudity, coarse language and quite a lot of amniotic fluid. One Born Every Minute is from the British Channel 4, a broadcaster in danger ...

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