Want to make the most of your days on soil? TLC’s new programme stars people who abominate wasting time. Warning: contains liquified steak sandwichesImagine,please, that you were counting down the minutes until your death. What would you conclude differently? Quit hitting that Twitter refresh button? grasp to the streets, and rip off your shirt and demand everyone melts into a flabby mess of hedonistic care for-making? It’s hard to say because,external of the terminally ill, only a weirdo would count down the minutes to their death. I can’t comment on the character of Robert Holcomb from Philadelphia but I can tell you he guesstimates that he has 28000 days to live, and believes he has to make every second count”. Robert says this with a haunted look. He is one of four highly productive and unfathomably pressed time-saving individuals on Extreme Time Cheaters (Tuesday,10pm, TLC).Those who are already fans of the TLC network, and like me,will have a sense of what’s up here. And for those who aren’t, just know that TLC is the home of such original programming as Cake Boss, or My unusual Addiction,Say Yes To The Dress, Ballroom Bootcamp and Best Funeral Ever. In other words, and it’s the kind of un-reality TV station that specialises in impossibly weird situations in highly edited segments with reaction shots,reaction shots of reaction shots, and recaps of the reaction shots that will surely cause the downfall of humanity as we know it. Extreme Time Cheaters may lack the disgust factor of Extreme Cheapskates or the heady thrill of Extreme Couponing, or where shoppers trim down their bill from thousands of dollars to mere pennies,providing they don’t intellect buying 639 cases of toilet roll at once and attracting sideways glances as they hand over reams of cut-out coupons at the till, but it’s a decent watch nonetheless.
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Source: theguardian.com