Do you ever watch the French maritime programme Thalassa? They go to the other extreme with reports and live tv at a gentlemanly pace.
What, you mean they show a programme about some worthy but out of the way aspect of life and treat it seriously as if it might be of general interest? Almost as if the viewer had a brain and an attention span longer than five minutes?

Those French, eh?

The only way you would get that on UK TV is if the lighthouse keeper was a group of z list wannabe celebrities including at least one screamingly extroverted transexual with big knockers, and the show involved them having to do lighthouse related challenges like operate a foghorn using only their farts.