TV show helps you get a divorce

CANNES: The dating show boom that has swept the world’s television screens since the success of Married

may be coming to an end, experts predict.

Now, it is time to get divorced.

Producers are falling over themselves to make new shows about warring couples, where everything has gone wrong.

Analyst Virginia Mouseler said at the world’s top TV gathering MIPTV here on Monday that the tsunami of classic dating shows that followed the United States blockbuster had run its course.

“In the three years since

the tide seems to have turned,” she said.

Instead, a host of new shows are coming with couples making dramatic lastditch attempts to save their relationships — or deciding to split.

The Latvian hit

puts unhappy couples through intense therapy and then asks them to choose whether they should stay together.

The cathartic

from Britain’s Channel 5 locks both partners from a failed relationship in an apartment “for the most intense night of their lives”.

The idea is that they either salvage something from the wreckage or get the answers they need to move on, said Mouseler.

Couples go on a nostalgic journey to see if they can rekindle the spark in Finland’s while across the Baltic Sea in Denmark they take a more ruggedly radical approach.

In bickering couples are dropped into the wilderness with a special forces veteran and life coach, who tests them to breaking point to see where the problem in their relationship lies.

Of course, if people were more careful before they rushed up the aisle, they would save themselves a lot of misery.