Finally the television gods are shining down on Australia.
If you enjoy a sneaky binge of Made in Chelsea, hate-watching Kim Kardashian and freaking out over the houses in Million Dollar Listings, then we have news for you.
NBCUniversal is heading Down Under -- and to the UK and Ireland -- on Mar. 22 to give you everything you deserve. On a silver platter, the network will serve up a menu of more reality show meltdowns than you can handle. It will also release most episodes locally at the same time as the U.S., fixing a common grievance of Australian fans.
The video-on-demand (SVOD) service called Hayu will provide 3,000 episodes, which is more than 90,000 minutes of wonderful viewing time. It is the first SVOD service that is 100% integrated with social media, allowing you to share snippets of a television show direct to Twitter or Facebook, and even comment from your screen.
It is a sure competitor to Foxtel, which charges a premium rate on a fixed contract with installation costs to watch the same reality TV shows. Netflix currently doesn't offer a large variety of the shows found on Hayu.
So stop pretending you watch World War II documentaries and foreign language films. For A$5.99 a month with no contract, you can binge-watch car-crash television all day long. Guilt free.
Hangovers just got so much better.
UPDATE: Thursday, Mar. 17: The story has been updated to note Hayu's launch date.