I watched the first three episodes of Bravo’s Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand last night. Everyone’s been talking about this series. It follows around the volunteer tourist police as they deal with foreigners getting into all sorts of bother.

It’s pure entertainment and not much more. Nothing covered in the show is new and you could make the same kind of programme in any of England’s major cities. But still, it’s always amusing watching the situations tourists get themselves into.

It goes like this: people get drunk and then either crash a motorbike or get caught with drugs or get in a fight or piss off a bar girl or rent a jet-ski or get mugged and drugged by ladyboys.

The jet-ski debacle in the first episode has been getting a lot of attention in Phuket. But again, it’s nothing new. Tourists rent jet-skis and sometimes they take them back to shore and are accused of damaging them, at which point the jet-ski operators get very aggressive and demand money. This has been happening for years.

Hopefully now something will be done about the jet-ski owners. They are ruthless scoundrels, but no matter how much advice is available for tourists, people will still rent them.

It’s an interesting show to watch, but if you’re planning on booking flights to Thailand, don't panic and think that these scenarios are the norm. They’re not.

Torrents for the show are here.