Chick Lit + Lad Lit = Reality TV (??)

I have this sense of what Chick Lit and Lad Lit are; I have previously called this a certain feeling to the texts. This is the sort of thing that makes them categories, the ambiguous feeling that there is something about them that is inclusive and something else that is exclusive. So, as one last (silly) attempt to synthesis what this feeling is, I turn to everyones favourite mindless-medium: Television. We all watch it, no matter how hard you try to pretend you are ALL academic with no low TV watching characteristics at all: you have seen reality TV; you know what make a reality TV show 'work'. I would like to suggest that if you boil down Chicklit and Ladlit you get reality TV (just as when you boil down "L"iterature you get Chicklit and Ladlit). Just think of it; you have all the 'romance' of the relationships, self improvement and peaks to the innermost thoughts of the characters (think about the interviews of the single person outside of the group on the reality tv shows...), and all the fantastical and impossible adventures of Lad Lit (trapped on island! must compete and battle for food/prestige/etc.) .
Can't you see a Cranford-esque society being the centre of one of these shows? Follow the characters as they try to live together without actually communicating instead veiling everything in social norms and practices! Or 'How to be Good'; watch as a couple on the rocks has a spiritual guru come live with them as they try to work out their marital woes!
Of course these genres are more than this. The (slightly) more serious point I try to make is the idea that these novels appeal to something particular in our society as a whole. The marketing of Chick Lit (or of Reality TV) would not be so successful if there wasn't some common desire within the audiences they reach. The intentions behind Chick Lit and the "L"iterature that proceeded it will continue to evolve and devolve into new genres that all appeal to this same underlying sensibility.