Faye Woods on The Only Way is Essex (and a failed Channel 4 reality show):
“The failure of Seven Days in the face of the success of The Only Way is Essex has made me think about what we Brits really want from our docusoaps. We don’t really want to interact with them, we want to sit on twitter and in our living rooms, laughing and judging. The Only Way is Essex lets us sit back and constructs its drama, whilst offering a nudge and a wink at its own reality, as fake as its nails.”
