Oh, please let 2016 be the year reality TV finally dies! Shows have shed millions of viewers as the genre becomes stale and tired 

The other night I was watching the latest episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, the reality show about a family of wealthy Hollywood socialites which airs around the world.
Ten minutes after it finished I was struggling to remember what had happened. There was not a second’s footage that felt original.
Khloe, one of the sisters, admitting it was time to ‘love and let go’ of her estranged husband Lamar; an encounter with wild cats edited to make it look halfway dangerous; a painfully sincere talk in which matriarch Kris reminded daughter Kylie of her responsibilities; lots of people ‘reaching out’ to lots of other people. I’d seen it all before, dozens of times.
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Flashing the flesh: Geordie Shore’s Vicky Pattison (left) and Towie star Ferne McCann pose on I’m A Celebrity
This season is the Kardashians’ 11th, and boy does it show. 
The Apprentice has also just finished its 11th run; I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! its 15th; Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother their 16th each.
These shows were fresh and original when they started. Now the reality TV genre is stale and tired, and the viewers know it.
The Apprentice has shed almost a million viewers since last year. The X Factor lost almost three-quarters of a million. Big Brother averaged 1.5 million viewers, a quarter of the figure for series three in 2002.