Not for the shock or gross out value but for the tips they give every episode. The tip they gave using instant coffee on my wood floor to stain it did the trick nicely! I have one bad spot from a chair that has wheels and that was amazingly simple and effective.While I really don't care for the disgusting houses, I do find it incredible that they can do what they do. I would find it completely daunting (and I can relate to that daunting feeling now - and my house is nowhere near as bad as the best they've had!I want this on DVD so I can study their tips. Simple, often ecologically friendly (sour milk as a brass cleaner?), and effective.Brilliant show! I am hoping for the DVD version!

This show isn't for everyone; there are, for the most part, endings to the episodes that will seem similar to others. In fact, most endings are the same. But the show is a rarity--two interesting ladies who, from week to week, go into interesting situations and make things right. It need not get any more complex than that. Kim and Aggie are smart, pretty and funny and their personalities come through nicely. In short, it's 30 minutes that the whole family can safely watch that won't insult anyone's intelligence. If you're in search of something in a more dramatic and amusing genre, try Monk. Otherwise, this is as good as a lot of TV gets.

This isn't rebuilding your house, it's cleaning it. Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie are two brave women who specialise in cleaning the grease and muck out of peoples houses. Sometimes it can be pretty disturbing seeing what people are like in their houses and what sort of mess they leave. They've had rotten eggs in a ice-covered fridges, mouldy bread, cobwebs, poo-filled dog and cat trays, bird poo-covered floors, hair-covered beds and sofas, chewing gum stuck everywhere, fatal looking food left over and many ghoulish and gross things. Kim is the cleaning expert who helps the "victims" to clean up, Aggie is the bacteria expert who examines samples from various rooms to see if there is a chance of their health being at risk. Luckily when Kim and Aggie arrive, it always has a happy ending and the person is astonished with what their clean house looks like compared to before. Kim and Aggy have even done it in America, their just as bad as us! It was number 6 on The 100 Greatest TV Treats 2003. Very good!

Each week the Dirt Detective Aggie MacKenzie and the Clean Queen Kim Woodburn visit a house that has been nominated by the resident's family/friends in order to inspect it. The go through rooms, drawers, down behind things and around the person themselves and look for signs of poor hygiene or a lack of cleaning, tackling the dirt with gusto and trying to force the subject to see the error of their ways and clean their home.British television has learnt a lot from a couple of programmes – Big Brother and Weakest Link to name two. The things producers learnt from these and similar shows is that: a) the British public like seeing real people and gossiping about them, and b) they like looking down on others at the same time. Hence we have a raft of programmes that allow us to sit in our homes and scoff at others while thinking 'well, I'm better than them' to comfort ourselves. This programme is yet another in that vein, where people desperate for TV exposure allow themselves to be inspected for the sort of hygiene that would make a tramp blush. How on earth anyone could be so desperate or shameless to show such inexcusable squalor in return for 25 minutes of fame is beyond me.This series made 'stars' out of yet more c-grade celebs in the shape of the clucking and judgemental Aggie & Kim. Like all these shows, the hosts have to be over the top and harsh in order to make the grade and it should be enough to say that Aggie & Kim only intent to humiliate and react rather than help or educate. They do that well enough and the series was successful because people would watch it for something to talk about the next day at work. It is all a bit demeaning for the subjects and the audience if you ask me and, unlike Wife Swap for example, it has no basis in being about to spin itself as helpful or useful – it is just cruel and holds the subjects up to public ridicule under the pretence of helping them.Overall this sort of programme has an audience and I'm rarely part of it. It is cheap television that is cruel and judgemental but both those things allow it to get talked about in offices by people who laugh down their sleeves at the subjects and comfort themselves that, no matter how they are living, they are better people that those they see on TV – as if that is any yard stick by which to judge your life.