The genius of Gogglebox is that it celebrates the ordinary

I don’t aspire to be on most television programmes (except obviously, one with my name in the title and a giant wedge of money to present it), because I feel I’d be giving up too much of myself for too little return, writes Colm O’Regan. 

But I’d love to be on Gogglebox. Its genius is that we can all imagine ourselves up there.

Reality TV presents us with many versions of ourselves but I don’t aspire to those versions. Ireland’s Fittest Families seems like a lot of examples of pointlessly taking the hard way to get from A to B, when there was clearly a perfectly good path there.