Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife

Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife
GenreReality
Presented byAnthea Turner
Narrated byElla Kenion
Theme music composerJody Jenkins
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes25
Production
Running time60 minutes
Production companyRDF Television
Original release
NetworkBBC Three
Release9 February 2006 (2006-02-09) –
25 July 2007 (2007-07-25)

Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife (also known as The Perfect Housewife with Anthea Turner[1]) is a reality show that ran on BBC Three from 2006 to 2007 and is hosted by Anthea Turner. In each episode, two housewives are introduced who have difficulties running their home efficiently. Anthea helps them by giving tips in the art of housekeeping, homemaking and hostessing. After a two-week session their homes are revisited and one of the two contestants will be crowned as the Perfect Housewife. Lovely.

Reception

Critics generally considered Perfect Housewife "lightweight".[2] Victor Lewis-Smith, writing in the Evening Standard, thought program was "desperate stuff", with most of the advice of given by Turner in the show being "irrelevant, outdated, or plain wrong", and that the scripts were "truly dreadful".[3] Despite thinking it part of a trend of replacing feminism with confutation between women, Justine Picardie, of The Daily Telegraph, found as Television, it was "strangely compelling viewing".[4]

  • How to Be the Perfect Housewife: Lessons in the Art of Modern Household Management, Virgin Books (29 March 2007) (ISBN 0-7535-1285-8)
  • How to Be the Perfect Housewife: Entertain in Style, Virgin Books (8 May 2008) (ISBN 0-7535-1332-3)
  • The Perfect Christmas, Virgin Books (8 September 2008) (ISBN 1-9052-6441-0)

References

  1. ^ The Perfect Housewife with Anthea Turner DVD Archived 10 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Antea Turner". The Independent. 10 March 2006. p. 14. Retrieved 11 July 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Lewis-Smith, Victor (10 February 2006). "There's a Vacuum in Anthea's new show". Evening Standard. pp. A47. Retrieved 11 July 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Picardie, Justine (31 March 2006). "Anthea Turner's latest series is a new variation on the sex war – a confrontation between women". The Daily Telegraph. p. 26. Retrieved 11 July 2024 – via Newspapers.com.


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