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The Neighbourhood review – Graham Norton is the only good thing about this tired reality show

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I ’ve had a good idea. Let’s apply for a moratorium on new reality shows, at least until the frenzied desire for a challenger to The Traitors’ crown is over. Otherwise they’re just going to keep happening. The Neighbourhood – presented by Graham Norton , its saving grace – is the latest to throw its cap into the ring. Six families take up residence in a suburban close (the neighbourhood, you get it) and each is aiming to be the last one voted out and thus claim the uncustomarily large pot of £250,000. This at least suggests that someone in the TV commissioning offices is beginning to understand the concept of inflation and the truth that yer 50 or 100ks are no longer universally life-changing amounts of money but closer to being a month’s rent or the price of a tank of petrol. The rules for surviving in the neighbourhood are spectacularly simple, almost as if the people in charge were exhausted before they began and/or couldn’t afford to hire new blood after allocating the entire budget to the prize fund.…

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