Me and my family went on this "wilson family". It was horrible they made us out to be really laid back and steamers which we aren't but that is what happen's when your put up with the english. Would never go on it again and i wouldn't recommend it to anyone either, such a horrible experience and everything the camera crew say is lies lies and more lies, if we got the chance to go back and do it all over again we wouldn't that's for sure. Wouldn't even rate it as a 1 star cause the program is absolutely dreadful but there is one thing that i learned and that's knowing programs like super nanny and wife swap are also just a bunch of lies. It's 14 days put into a 1 hour tape...just shows you though.

Holiday Showdown is a good programe. Has a variety of holidays that families would not normaly go on and sometimes learn a lot from their experiences

I would not have wanted to go on either holiday but the Jones family were dictators imposing their ideas on the other family, their language was appalling. It seemed to me that they thought that going to Disney was the best holiday imaginable and because the other family did not think so they were offended, they would not listen to any point of view and why object to the bandana? None of their business.

Is this ultimately a social experiment into what causes a conflict? To the lesser psychologist, what we have here is a show which aims to push the boundaries of the old social class system and open peoples eyes to the world around them. I feel that it does do this, but we have to be careful. It creates conflict within the two families and while this is particularly impulsive viewing and unites the family, is it the conflict which unites these terbulent relationships?

So let's go to the root of Holiday Showdown and see what it's faults are. Well two families star in one reality tv programme. Well there is a problem already. Stereotypically viewed by the 'chav' culture, a reality tv programme which produces and is a carbon copy of something else. In particular Wife Swap. So lets push past this obsticle and look at the actual programme. Well what do we have: two gobby women, one disfunctional family and one which looks down it's nose at the other family. Great!! The only problem is the 'back stabbing' from one family about another. This is monotonous and clearly leads to the tension. We then get to the end of week one and we hear the usual " If this happens, I will do something". Yep time to get ready for conflict, but oh no we have to endure another agonising 40 minutes of crude television before we get to the big fight which usually ends up with the disfunctional family storming out.

This programme shows what happens when you decide to cut costs and hire the cheapest form of 'entertainment'.

Holiday Showdown was ULTRA - FAB. You missed out on a lot if you missed it. I think it had humour in it, just think going on that would be hell!! I found the swearing to be rude though.

Holiday Showdown could be described as a social experiment. It isn't. It is simply a case of either testing the traditional class divides in the UK or simply putting together two clans who are bound to hate each other regardless of the holiday. Moaners, stubborn types, slobs and sloths are welcome on this show.......as long as they know they are going to be paired up with polar opposites. So if you holiday in the Maldives, prepare to be whooed by a week in Whitby.

The shows premise couldn't be easier. Two families who have never met before are flung together, each family is convinced they can show the other family a great time on their annual trip. They all pile off for a holiday to the preferred destination of family X and then to the location of family Y.

The same format follows every week. Kids get on and generally have a ball. Parents moan, fight, proclaim the other holiday is a waste of time and they all have a ding dong at the end.

It's usually good fun to watch, if you have a family of burger eating lard buckets then you can bet your bottom dollar they will be put with the sports enthusiats. One week in burger joints and chocolate followed one week cycling over rocky terrains. You watch the sporty types die of boredom and disgust followed by the fatties dying of exhaustion - priceless.

Or you get your family of council estate bums going on holiday with a plethora of snobs - watch the classes riot!

It's an easy hour of TV and if they ever picked two normal families the show would die. Because two normal families would make the most of the free holidays and have a good time.

The new series kicked off last night on ITV1. Highlights so far included the 'common family' taking some snobs camping on a back to basics trip in Wales. Common Dad thought it would be a good idea for the whole family to share a tooth brush....including the family dog. I suppose this made perfect sense to the guy though, after all, his wife was a pig so sharing with his dog must have been a walk in the park.....

Common Dad got dragged kicking and screaming to Florence as well, he was at furious the 'swearing graffiti' in the city and proclaimed there was no graffiti at the Welsh campsite haven he visited:

A) We are expected to believe that Common Dad can read Italian???
B) Has no one told Common Dad that the Welsh haven't advanced to felt tips yet...

To finish the show, Pig-Wife ate her evening meal while sat in bed....Yuck!!!

I can't wait for the next episode!! Some of you Brits makes the locusts on Jerry Springer look classy!!