Bride wannabes, and Supersize vs Superskinny

For the uninitiated...

Miss Winnie Leung is an avid blogger, and author of various books including 男人争氣手冊, 美肌瘦身祕笈 etc. Her blog can be accessed here: http://vipblog.orientalsunday.hk/winnieleung/. She has become quite famous recently because of her participation in the TVB reality programme "Bride Wannabes"[1] (盛女愛作戰).

Dr Christian Jessen is an English doctor and a TV personality. He is best known for his presentation in "Supersize vs Superskinny" which was broadcasted in BBC Channel 4. He is a regular columnist of The Daily Mail, The Evening Standard as well as the FHM. He has written an accompanying book for the TV show entitled Supersize vs Superskinny: Take Control of Your Weight. His personal website can be accessed here: http://www.drchristianjessen.com/

The television shows

Supersize vs Superskinny is a television show, presented by Dr Jessen, describing a pair of clients in each issue - one supersized (overweight) and one superskinny (underweight). In each episode the pair is invited to a house for a week of weight treatment - they are presented of what their eating habits were, how their eating habit came, and how they damage their body, and what change do they have to make in order to become healthier. They are released home, and at the end of the episode they have a debriefing showing their progress.

Bride Wannabes is a television show showing five middle-aged[2] ladies and their progress on finding love. In the process, their "life-coach", Miss Winnie Leung, together with others such as the matchmaking specialist Mei-Ling[3], provides the five ladies with various improvement programs on their outlook, the way they communicate, among other things - and they are offered chances to meet men in various activities. They are given time to express themselves, and more often than not, put into cut-scenes showing a contrasting picture on how others viewed them.

Comparing...

To boot, the UK television show is much better received than the Hong Kong show although the Hong Kong show is only beginning with the fourth episode being aired as of the day of writing. Where's the difference?

Readers are suggested to have a look on the episodes of each show. The TVB show can be viewed in mytv:

     http://mytv.tvb.com/lifestyle/bridewannabes/

The UK television show, although not supposed to be viewable online for non-UK citizens, the following youtube search can probably yield dozens of episode available... (Warning: very addictive)

     http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=supersize+vs+superskinny

To be continued...

[1] I didn't invent the name - it's TVB's official translation.
[2] Not in the medical sense, this middle-aged refers to women in their late twenties to late thirties.
[3] Whose comment was critical, dead-on and very interesting...