Gogglebox makes its Irish debut this month, find out what makes it successful

What a ridiculous idea. People watching telly watching people watching telly. How could that ever catch on? 

And yet Gogglebox — where we view householders watching the same telly as us, beamed into our living rooms from theirs — is a smash. So much so that from September 22, we will see the first broadcast of Gogglebox Ireland — more of which later.

Of the entire reality TV genre, Gogglebox is the most meta yet, in terms of concept. Andy Warhol would have loved the idea, if not actually the content.