New British show: "'Space cadets' prepare for TV hoax blast-off"

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

A new reality TV show is aiming to pull off the biggest hoax in TV history - by persuading a group of Britons that they have been blasted into space.

The new Channel 4 series Space Cadets has been under wraps since the idea first came about 18-months ago.

Nine people will be told they are set to visit the final frontier as space tourists and that in preparation they will undergo intensive training in Russia courtesy of the Space Tourism Agency of Russia, but in reality the groups will be “trained” for space in a disused airbase in a secret location in the UK.

Unbeknown to them, their shuttle will be a Hollywood creation, made originally for the film Space Cowboys.

A giant custom-built screen positioned just outside the shuttle will, it is hoped, provide the illusion of a view of Earth from space including a hurricane over Mexico and a glimpse of the UK on one day when cloud cover parts.

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=133702180&p=y337xz76x

[democracyindanger]

1. Interestingly cruel?

Cruelly interesting?

It's gonna suck for the contestants at the end. Pretty diabolical way to yank somebody's chain.

But I'll watch.

[MrScorpio]

2. I wonder what they'll do to kick someone off the spaceship?

Shove them out the fake hatch?

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Doesn't putting an article in the paper about it kinda spoil the surprise?

[DS1]

4. I say this as a Brit

This is fucking dumb. Ooh, let's watch some people marvel at special effects they think are the real thing.

It's shit like this which gives British TV a bad name. Like that stupid show of street-gags they syndicated on Comedy Central over here in the States - the one where some asshole with a four foot tall cellphone walks around taking calls and yelling into it. Stupid.