Idea for new parenting advice TV show based on Mumsnet Talk - your thoughts/input needed

It should be post 9pm, no kids around. Although I hate loose women maybe that general idea would work. Perhaps taking threads and discussing them as well as a theme for that night? Allowing members to post alongside the programme might make it more 'MN real'? Asking members to post on a specific thing (ie pregnancy/birth whatever) on a specific thread for the show?
It could be really funny and informative (like MN) or complete shite (I don't like any of the pegnancy/baby/kid programmes nor any daytime stuff)

But please, no Boden.

I like the idea of it being in the style of 'Grumpy Old Women'

Could call it 'Mums the word' and have a group of women of different ages and from different walks of life etc making their views known on variety of topics.

Im sure by now we all have become familiar with the user names that -

you tend to agree with
irritate you beyond belief
only post to boast
are really funny

As time went on with the programme you would start to recognise which Mums you had most in common with etc and think it would be a great way of getting across the whole FFS- with raised eyebrows obviously!!

Sod Quint - pick me - I actually have TV experience and managed not to libel anyone last time!

Yes good idea, and do offer me a job as a tv presenter, I need even MORE excuses reasons to get my sorry behind back to London, pronto.

Oh I dunno, I've done some cracking parenting faux pas (not realising DS had swallowed a pound coin till it turned up in his nappy would be one that comes to mind) which I wouldn't mind recounting.

great idea!

now, how the bloody hell to make it work?

i imagine 'grumpy old man' style vox pops on ishoos from fave MNers. I suspect some of us are more photogenic than others...

thing is, who is going to go on telly and admit they lost a tampon/ detest their MIL/ are displeased with their DPs endowment/ had commited a perfidious act of bad parenting/ had started drinking at 11am ??

twould make christmas with the family rather awkward wouldn't it?

Well I think it's a great idea. Agree with others that have said make it chronological but I wouldn't start with pregnancy - there is so much about pregnancy and childbirth already.

Much more fun would be 'how to be a mum without looking like a bum' (ie mummy stylee and how to get dressed before your child turns one using cbeebies and subterfuge)

'How to deal with other parents' (school yard fights are not just for children and how not to kill your mother in law)

Navigating through hormone hell (how to deal with stroppy teenagers while you are going through the hot sweats of menopause and attempting to maintain some decorum while kicking the cat in anger).

Engineering for amateurs (how to put together Playmobil without teaching your children interesting new words and IKEA for beginners)

When you're in love with a beautiful mummy (managing to maintain adult relationships with small children clinging to each leg).

etc.

I like the idea that a group of mums chat and talk about a problem they're having with their kids and the different ways they handle it. (Can't remember who suggested it here first).

I don't like the idea of having a panel of do gooder experts who preach about how fantastic they are themselves. Would be a real turn off.

I like it, Zillah

Could call it Woman Sour

Another one who thinks a radio show would be better. I love MN's anonymity & the, shall we say, 'bracing' views you get on here. I wonder how much of that would pass pre-watershed guidelines? And I don't think a sanitised MN is something I'd want to watch. Not even if Myklene Ass was fronting it

And please don't go Loose Women on us. That show's just a televised coven.

oooh allusions of the borg that is MN would be shattered for me....

....i don't want to see 'real' people.

If that makes sense.

Pag - I think that would be a lot more honest, really.

Sounds an awful idea - would probably kill MN off cos of associated "naffness" too.

Home Truths? Good thinking, Alb

If you are going to do it, please make it good, i.e. witty and intelligent. There is a big gap between how MN is perceived by outsiders (dull middle class harpies) and what it is actually like (funny, moving and interesting).

If you can get across the idea that people have different experiences of pregnancy, birth, feeding, sleeping, discipline, working etc. and it mostly turns out ok, that would be a bonus. Before you have children, most parenting shows do give you the idea there is a one right way to do everything. If you do XYZ, you get a happy family.

You need to mix up things people find it hard to talk about like pregnancy loss, pnd, sn with the idea that people do cope with the shitty parts. That is something I have learnt from being on here.

The strength of mn is that everything is covered here, for as long as you want, at any time of the day you are free. That is not what a tv show is.

Maybe something like John Peel's old radio 4 show - Home Truths? Frivolous alongside the tragic. I actually think it might work better as a radio show.

Although I do love those tv programs that give me an opportunity to judge nosey at other people's lives .

People are still trying to find ways to translate successful websites into tv or radio...It's very difficult and I'm not sure it can be done actually, not without losing a lot of the point and way of working of a web forum, as many have pointed out on here.

Anonymity is a powerful thing - can't have it on telly.

tv show sounds cringeworthy imho. Sorry Justine

In my head I can hear 'Points of View' style voices reading out comments from threads I agree with other posters that the anonymity of MN makes it easier for posters to put their real views across. Will be harder on TV if posters are identified, not sure the humour and honesty will translate.

Would like to see all ages and stages covered in any series though, and with teenage parenting and SEN parenting covered, not just focussing on baby and toddlerhood. Also, looking at how becoming a parent changes your relationships, attitudes and lifestyle - working/SAH etc. It would also be great not to just focus on 'problems' but also the really good bits and how to get more of that into family life.

Hmmm.

I would only watch out of sheer nosiness about my fellow mumsnetters.

And then I think the people I mainly chat to on here would have no interest in putting themselves on tv.

So I'd probably stop watching after a week or two.

I am happy to offer advice or, more accurately, my experiences to anyone if I think they might help. Just not on tv.

suits me too

pagwatch - i'd watch that too, would suit my short attention span a treat

They could do it like a short party political...

A bunch of women, one or two crying, one in the corner a bit pissed, all saying
" just do your best. It's tough, you will make mistakes but you're only human"
Then they could be a brief q&a about bum sex and a short boden catwalk.