The Circle is reality show Big Brother smacked over the head with Instagram, and then trapping all its contestants into their own, individual diary rooms.
The series follows the lives of some of Los Angeles’ most successful real estate agents, as they swan about on the Sunset Plaza, looking beautiful, selling houses and starting drama. I know, it doesn’t exactly sound like ground-breaking telly, does it?
This show has been on air since 1968 and is a BBC classic full of tips and tricks for keeping your flowerbeds full of colour, and how to get the best harvest out of your veg patch.
As sitcoms go, this is up there among the silliest. But when you need a quick twenty minutes of raucous, camp ridiculousness, there’s no company better than Will & Grace.
Sometimes when you switch telly on in the evening, you’re way too tired to face the high-speed chases of a crime drama, or the subliminal lecturing of a doc. What you need is a cosy classic, which requires minimum attention.
No, this programme isn’t about a husband disgruntled by his wife’s refusal to forgive him three days after he loaded the dishwasher incorrectly. It’s about something even better than that: the joy of dogs.
