Yes Bob...I watched a couple of these shows, but they were pretty tame compared with the UK version.

I thought "Till death us do part" was a great piece of TV, till I started talking to workmates and reading newspaper reviews, then I realised that most were homing in on the racism and the programme was promoting the very attitudes it had intended to satirise.

For satire to work it needs wit, intelligence and humanity, without these it is simply an instrument of cruelty..... and we just love a bit of cruelty ...eh?