"Liverpool, the Pool of Life, centre of the universe, no contest. Why live anywhere else when you've got it all here?" Jodie Lundstram mused in the opening scene of the first - and only - series of Desperate Scousewives.
Liverpool may have given the world The Beatles, Brookside and the most famous amateur sleuth to ever live, Wagatha Christie aka Coleen Rooney, but the trailblazing city in northwest England has never really set the world of reality TV alight.
Back in 2011, following on from the success of shows like Geordie Shore, The Only Way Is Essex and Made in Chelsea premiering, Liverpool aimed to get in on the action with their offering, the ill-fated Desperate Scousewives.