Life of Kylie

Monday, E!, 11am, 9.30pm

It's quite off-putting to see one of the richest teenagers in the world throwing herself a pity party at the start of her new vanity TV series – a series that will add yet another pile of cash to the $US41 million ($52 million) she reportedly earned last year.

Fame and fortune: Kylie Jenner.

No doubt the isolation of hyper-fame can be a bummer and the 19-year-old Kylie Jenner has already had to deal with that for a decade. But some ways of seeking sympathy work better than others. Jenner elects to begin by having an interviewer ask how she responds to people who think she has the perfect life. "Laugh," Jenner replies. "In their face."

The voice in which Jenner delivers this startlingly poor choice of words has a hardness and ingratitude to it that will immediately alienate most viewers. Well, most viewers apart from the millions who habitually tune in to watch Jenner and the rest of her family on Keeping Up with the Kardashians. For them it will presumably be confirmation that Jenner is indeed a saintly figure forced to martyr herself daily on the altar of Instagram in order to deliver us from the hell of not seeing selfies of her showing off new hats and wigs.