Send in the sex inspectors!

TV chiefs revealed today they are planning the ultimate in bedroom makeovers - by transforming sex lives.

A new Dinner Party Inspectors-style programme will swap social for sexual intercourse, featuring couples filmed in the throes of passion.

They will then be advised how to get more from their romps in the show, tentatively titled The Sex Inspectors.

Channel 4 is in discussions to screen the programme. Programme maker Daisy Goodwin - who is behind shows such as Jamie's Kitchen, How Clean Is Your House and Property Ladder - said: "Everybody thinks other people are having better sex than they do - it's one of the world's great myths.

"This is partly to reassure them that they're not and also show them some things that might make things a little better.

"There will be footage that they analyse, but there will be a pixellation (blurring)," added Goodwin, who is developing the show.

She said the aim was to make it a show that women will watch, although men would find it enjoyable too, she said.

Goodwin - editorial director of producers Talkback Thames - said: "You're not going to see anything that you're not meant to see, that you wouldn't normally see on Channel 4.

"This isn't a porn show by another name. This will be a show that I won't be embarrassed to watch."

Sex Inspectors would be shown at around 10.30pm, she anticipated. "If we can't get the tone right, we won't do it."

Meanwhile, Dinner Party Inspectors will be given an overhaul if it returns to TV, Goodwin said.

The programme failed to win a large enough audience and she conceded the programme format - where two posh women monitor the behaviour of meal guests - was not right.

"In retrospect they should have given advice," said Goodwin. "You win some and you lose some. You have to keep taking risks."

She said the programme had not been axed, but they would adjust the formula. The two presenters, Victoria Mather and Meredith Etherington Smith, would be unlikely to return.

"It may be that when we come to redo it, they won't be able to do it because
they've got other offers."