The C.H.A.O.S. Clinic

Thursdays at 7.30pm

on the U.K.'s Five

For immediate release

Contact:       Meg Connell, 510.482.5892, meg@theorganizedone.com

                      Stephanie Faber, Publicist, Five, 011 44 207 550 5589

Oakland-based Professional

Organizer Is Star of

New Television Series in Great Britain

“The C.H.A.O.S. Clinic” premieres Thursday, July 21, 2005, 19:30pm,

on England’s Five

Produced by Talkback Thames

Meg Connell, “The Organized One,” (http://www.theorganizedone.com) is straightening out the lives of England’s chronically disorganized denizens using wit, wisdom, and a six-step program to achieving streamline success in “The C.H.A.O.S. Clinic,” (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome). The stages of “recovery” are: Confess Your Mess, Find A Buddy, Stop Hoarding Start Living, Clear Out The Clutter, Order Out Of Disorder, and Together We Will Conquer C.H.A.O.S.

The eight-episode series follows Meg into the homes of hopeless hoarders and obsessive shoppers, where her ironic, alternative, comedic, and sometimes even outlandish techniques help clients face the facts of their situations and get organized.

For example, in the first episode, Meg helps a client admit to her compulsive purchasing issues by turning the home into a “Meg-A-Store,” with cosmetics on the ground floor, and lingerie upstairs, demonstrating the perils of addictive buying and preening.

Later episodes feature Meg as boot camp drill sergeant, space alien, spelunking specialist; others have her dressing up some of her clients as Superman and “mini-Meg”—all in fun, and in the service of helping people to kick the clutter habit.

The show also has a good time showcasing Meg’s seeming eccentricities as an American stranger in a strange British land.

“The techniques we use on the show are a little over the top,” says Connell, whose successful fifteen-year organizing practice has never employed costumes or stage sets stateside. “This is TV, after all. The show has a lighthearted silliness to it, and at the same time, it never loses sight of the goal—getting the client organized.

“I think that making people laugh while teaching them life-changing principles is a good way to drive the message home—so to speak!” she adds.

Produced by Talkback Thames, “The C.H.A.O.S. Clinic” airs on Thursday, July 21, at 7:30pm on England’s Five.

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