Ladette to Lady

The idea of a reality TV show based on an old fashioned finishing school is promising. But this show completely fails to live up to the "lady" end of the idea. The teachers thoroughly fail to live up to my idea of a lady. They raise their voices most of the time. They put little effort into their appearance aside from such distasteful things as enough fake suntan as to turn orange, bleached hair, etc. They go so far as to accuse the girls of being "professional" (I leave you to figure THAT out). All in all I enjoyed the background music and the idea. But the teachers and general execution of this show leave a lot to be desired. I can't see anyone actually becoming a "lady" under the direction of those women.

As I write this review, ITV have just axed two new reality shows, Fat Families and The Real Good Life. At the same time, we get a further new one, this rubbish, Ladette To Lady.

This one is about a group of loud, foul mouthed and unpleasant women who spend most of their time getting drunk and they have to do a variety of challenges to make them more ladylike and attractive to the men. These challenges include cooking meals and learn how to be more polite to others. One of them gets axed after each episode.

How you can call this entertainment is beyond me and the language in this is awful. All these women can do most of the time is shout and swear. Also, where have ITV picked up the word ladette and what is a ladette supposed to be? It doesn't seem to be in the dictionary or on the computer spell checker.

ITV bosses still haven't got the message that viewers are fed up with shows like this. What a load of rubbish.

I ignored the first few episodes of this series - mainly put off by the strange title! When I accidentally clicked on to the pay TV channel it is run on, I started watching out of curiosity - and was hooked. What a motley crew of girls these people have chosen for the show! I have the impression that very few of them have any wish to improve themselves one iota - and are just in it for what they can get. Regardless of this, it is compulsive viewing - I will stay with it to the end in the hope that at least one of them shows some improvement in appearance and behaviour. Having said that, I wouldn't wish to change it - there is a lot of humour and a fair bit of insight into human behaviour in the show. Probably the most interesting is to see the impossible goals set by the ladies who run the "finishing school" - they obviously are living in another era - and seem determined to transform the girls into some sort of throwback to the 1950s. I look forward to finding how it all turned out

As I write this, we're waiting in anticipation of the final episode to screen on Pay TV in Australia.

Everyone we know who has seen this show makes comment that, in terms of reality TV, this is exactly the right mix of humor, challenge, personality and reality.

As the name suggests, a number of "ladettes" are challenged to become "ladies" and go through a weekly elimination to stay with the program.

You'll get to see the practical challenges the ladettes (girls) face as they are molded into ladies by the staff of the finishing school, and at times, they certainly have their work cut out for them.

No spoilers, no hints -- just watch this if you get the opportunity. None funnier !