There are few sources of drama as rich as a neighbourhood WhatsApp group. Petty rivalries, passive-aggressive comments about bin day, grainy Ring doorbell footage of the suspicious character who keeps nicking your Amazon parcel – your street’s version almost certainly has it all. It’s a very 21st-century form of curtain twitching, but with more AI slop and dubious political memes.
ITV execs must have been scrolling through their local Facebook group before commissioning The Neighbourhood. The channel’s latest reality competition takes six households and plonks them in a purpose-built cul-de-sac in the Peak District that looks like it could have been plucked straight out of the Barratt Homes Little England range, if such a thing existed.
