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Have you ever switched on to a 'lifestyle' programme and found yourself wondering 'who in God's name styles their life like that'?

Maybe it's because they choose to focus on the freakiest possible people, but we just can't bring ourselves to identify with the kind of individual who thinks tattooed eyebrows are a great idea.

However, if you look long and hard enough, you might actually find the odd programme which doesn't make you feel like beating yourself unconscious with the remote control.

Mr & Mrs Smith is the new travel series from the people who brought you the consistently credible line of hotel guides of the same name (presenters who know what they're talking about - hallelujah!). Each week the team guide you round the tastiest hidden hangouts in Europe and then give you the skinny on what to do when you get there. Beat that Judith Chalmers!

Or if you find TV too passé, there's always the Internet. Code.tv bills itself as 'your personal lifestyle dossier' delivering bite-sized video snippets on everything from the latest bar to blow-drying tips. And if you don't agree with them you can always just click on the next item. And then there's thecoolhunter.net. They're saying that turning your cool website site into a cool tv programme which hunts for cool stuff is really very cool. Now we have to decide if that's cheating, or just cool.

Mr & Mrs Smith's The Smiths: Hotel for Two airs on Discovery Travel + Living 9pm Sunday Sep 24.

by RH
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