AS a champion of all things confrontational and humiliating on TV (hello Jeremy Kyle), I'm pleased to announced that I've stumbled across something which takes the whole tell-all-in-front-of-the-cameras-and-your-wife genre to a new level.
And perhaps it won't be a massive surprise to be told that the host is Jerry Springer.
Nothing But The Truth (Sky One, Wednesdays, 9pm) is absolutely compulsive viewing - and I say that after just seeing the trailer (so that worked, then!) and a little bit of one of the episodes last series.
In a nutshell, contestants win money for telling the truth. Simple enough. But the selection process for contestants doesn't seem to include how bright you are, but how many skeletons are in your closet.
And when you are rigged up to the lie detector machine, and the questions fired at you, those skeletons dance around the studio like nobody's business.
Questions like: Do you have a secret bank account your wife doesn’t know about?, Have you ever had an affair with one of your friend’s other halves?, Have you ever worn your wife’s underwear without her knowing?, Are you an easy lay? Is your wife the most attractive person you've slept with since you've been married? And so on.
Now, it goes without saying that the questions aren't just randomly put to the contestants, as for this programme to work the result can't be left to chance. It's a point you'd like to think the contestants had taken on board before applying, or before opening up to a researcher ahead of going on the show.
Perhaps they rationalise it out by thinking to themselves that at least they'll make a few quid from it, which probably makes them brighter than most Jeremy Kyle contestants (who do it for t a night in a Manchester hotel).
Anyone who gives any thought to this programme would instantly rule out appearing on it. But we should all be incredbly grateful for those whose don't think. At all.
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