The idea of a reality TV show based on an old fashioned finishing school is promising. But this show completely fails to live up to the "lady" end of the idea. The teachers thoroughly fail to live up to my idea of a lady. They raise their voices most of the time. They put little effort into their appearance aside from such distasteful things as enough fake suntan as to turn orange, bleached hair, etc. They go so far as to accuse the girls of being "professional" (I leave you to figure THAT out). All in all I enjoyed the background music and the idea. But the teachers and general execution of this show leave a lot to be desired. I can't see anyone actually becoming a "lady" under the direction of those women.

In spite of the criticism about this series, I've actually quite enjoyed it. I don't think it's that the teachers are patronising so much as that they and the girls are from completely different backgrounds. If they weren't, there would be no tension and therefore no point in the series.I don't know if the series was inspired by the musical My Fair Lady, but I'm tempted to compare it. The difference here, however, is that the girls can't just switch to ladylike perfection in the space of five minutes because they are real people, taking part in a real experiment. Following that logic, it makes sense, as they're at the school, to put them in situations (parties, holidays etc) that they are used to, in order to assess whether they're putting their new social skills to good use or not.At university, I often come up against people whose social behaviour would certainly shock the teachers at Eggleston Hall, and sometimes I think that this sort of finishing school experience is exactly the thing some people need. I'm only twenty-two, but sometimes I'm actually shocked by people in my own generation (male and female). I think I might be atypical of girls in my age range, but I've never fitted into the stereotype of the hard-drinking, partying teenager, so I actually wish I could do something like this for myself (for the experience as much as social improvement) and I don't often think that about much that I see on television. I'll definitely be watching the series until the end.

As I write this, we're waiting in anticipation of the final episode to screen on Pay TV in Australia. Everyone we know who has seen this show makes comment that, in terms of reality TV, this is exactly the right mix of humor, challenge, personality and reality.As the name suggests, a number of "ladettes" are challenged to become "ladies" and go through a weekly elimination to stay with the program.You'll get to see the practical challenges the ladettes (girls) face as they are molded into ladies by the staff of the finishing school, and at times, they certainly have their work cut out for them.No spoilers, no hints -- just watch this if you get the opportunity. None funnier !

As I write this review, ITV have just axed two new reality shows, Fat Families and The Real Good Life. At the same time, we get a further new one, this rubbish, Ladette To Lady.This one is about a group of loud, foul mouthed and unpleasant women who spend most of their time getting drunk and they have to do a variety of challenges to make them more ladylike and attractive to the men. These challenges include cooking meals and learn how to be more polite to others. One of them gets axed after each episode.How you can call this entertainment is beyond me and the language in this is awful. All these women can do most of the time is shout and swear. Also, where have ITV picked up the word ladette and what is a ladette supposed to be? It doesn't seem to be in the dictionary or on the computer spell checker.ITV bosses still haven't got the message that viewers are fed up with shows like this. What a load of rubbish.