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The following is the show's description from channel 4 website.

From Egyptian’s love of seeing terrified celebrities kidnapped at gunpoint to India’s dancing obsession and from Brazil’s desire for the body beautiful to South Korea’s gaming addiction, Daisy sees how societies – and particularly the roles of women - are brought into sharp relief by their TV.

In the first programme of the series, Daisy is in Brazil looking backstage as the country prepares to explode onto the world stage with the World Cup and Olympics in 2016 – and she finds extremes of television, from programmes objectifying and humiliating women to a bloody version of Crimewatch.

She goes behind the scenes of Brazil’s most revealing talent show, Miss Bum Bum, where young women go cheek-to-cheek to decide who has the best backside. Although shocking to her eyes, Daisy finds that Brazilians regard the programme as a harmless celebration of the female form.

Digging deeper, Daisy discovers a darker side to the froth and frivolity of Brazilian entertainment TV when she meets an ex-member of the ‘Panicats’ - a group of bikini-clad women who are subjected to what Daisy sees as degrading challenges in the name of TV entertainment.

Brazil has one of the highest crime rates in the world, as Daisy finds out as a live guest on Na Mira, a bloody version of Crimewatch. The programme is filled with shocking footage of dead bodies on pavements and buried corpses being pulled from the ground – all the more disturbing for being scheduled at lunchtime after kids’ cartoons.

As expected, she does not understand cringe comedy and fails to see anyone else being degraded besides women on Panico na TV show. The documentary is quite superficial.