Every now and then, from deep within the stagnant filth that is the very bottom of the television barrel, comes a show sent as a gift to those who love to be righteously outraged.
Once one gets over the shock of realising exactly what manner of reality television takes place on Home Is Where The Heart Is, righteous outrage is all one is left with.
And I cannot shame it any better than its advertising blurb does.
Try this: "Four very different celebrity households invite homeless people to stay with them for two weeks."
Anneka Rice, chef Aldo Zilli, designers Colin and Justin and Brit-pop legend Alex James take a homeless person off the streets and into their spare rooms.
"Guided by a homeless expert [I'm not sure if the expert is homeless or ...], they work with their guests to improve their lives and assist in re-engaging them with mainstream society after they leave their homes.
"Are these celebrities appropriate mentors, and can they help transform the lives of such vulnerable people?"
The answers are "no" and "no" - and "no", to any other questions that might spring to mind.
Except this one: Could these C-list celebrities, vacuous, self-obsessed and shallow as they are, actually do some terrible harm in this appallingly misconceived exercise?
Yes. Yes, they could.
Home Is Where the Heart Is begins on December 3, on the Living channel, at 10.30pm.
Alex James, of Brit-pop group Blur, takes in 18-year-old Danny Newton.
Alex has estimated that he spent about a million pounds on champagne and cocaine, and appears to have, at the very least, his own anger management problems. He only just manages to overcome that little issue when Danny admits he does not actually know who Alex is.
Danny, who it later emerges appears to have early signs of schizophrenia, gets the Alex James treatment of being put to work on the latter's 80ha organic farm to cure him of his problems.
Danny gets told off when he doesn't work hard enough.
Alex, who comes across as a spoilt full-of-himself git in a pretentious red scarf, does not mention if he has a background in clinical psychology.
Anneka Rice is a television presenter who once starred on light entertainment show Treasure Hunt, and once won the "Rear of the Year" award. Perfect, then, to mentor 23-year-old Bridgette Harvey, who has lived in a homeless hostel for the past four months, grew up in a family with alcohol problems and, after her mum left when she was 11, cared for her terminally ill father.
Now there's someone who just needs a good hug from Anneka to cure her homelessness.
Home Is Where the Heart Is is just so wrong on so many levels.
Stay well away.
