You know what it’s like. You know it’s bad, very bad, but for some reason you cannot stop.

You do it regularly – more often than you would like to admit – and you hate yourself for it afterwards.

Should you be in therapy to get over it? Probably ... everyone’s in therapy these days, it seems, so why not for this?

Don’t worry, even I am guilty.

Our crime? Continuing to watch truly atrocious TV shows, staying glued to the screen despite the crap it emits, maintaining that transfixed stare even though your 90-year-old grandmother (who has Alzheimer’s) is of sound enough mind to realise it’s time to switch channels.

In short, getting sucked in by train-wreck TV.

Don’t say you haven’t been there. The warning synapses in our brain may flash crazily away, desperately trying to get a message all the way from the head to the fingertip, in an effort to stir it into life so that it presses a different number on the remote.

But somehow that message never gets through. The worse it gets, the more entranced we become. We cannot look away.

Here are my nominations for the Daily Awards for Train-Wreck TV Excellence, otherwise known as the DATWAs:

The Dame Edna Treatment: Does the “woman” ever shut up? What is the point of having guests of the calibre of Sigourney Weaver, Patrick Stewart and Mischa Barton on your chat show, if you don’t let them chat?

Comedy Classics: This stuff wasn’t even funny back in the day.

All Saints: It really went downhill with the departure of Mitch and Terri. Bring back Rose!

Sea Patrol: Beige characters, wooden acting, too much corn on this ship. It looks pretty but stop taking yourself so damn seriously!

Age of Love: The premise of this show, like the Bachelor, is just despicable.

— REBECCA MARSHALL

What shows do you love to hate? Give us your nominations for train-wreck television.