Tallafornia: Porn without the sex?

TV3’s Tallafornia has caught the attention of both Time Magazine and MTV after just one episode. Deirdre Reynolds looks at how reality TV is plumbing new depths

TOE-SUCKING, sunbeds and six packs – welcome to Tallafornia. Ireland’s answer to Jersey Shore returns to TV3 tonight — and after a preview episode last month, the reality TV show has already divided audiences at home and abroad.

The fly-on-the-wall series follows the lives of seven twenty-something West Dubliners cooped up together for a month.