Space Cadets

[mycatis]

I've been watching the adverts for this new "reality" show, getting more angry everytime. Does anyone else think this sounds like a horrible idea??
I would go absolutely mental!! I would be sooo upset. There is nothing more in the world I would love than the chance to go into space and cant even imagine how gutted these people are going to be when they find out it's all a hoax!

[kazza12345]

i completely agree ... humiliating gullable people on national television really is lowest common denominator stuff ... why not just have a show where people are humilited in stock, by people throwing stuff at them ... it would certainly be a lot cheaper to make

[mycatis]

Exactly kazza, it really is sad and pathetic isn't it? ggrrrrr

[Artemis]

One of the actors has been sacked because he nearly gave the game away by forgetting his lines.

[khana]

Personally I think its a wonderful idea, if I was one of the contestants I hope I would take it in the way it is meant and just be happy to have had the experience. For a lot of people it is certainly the closest they are ever going to experience of any space type enviroment.

Is it any worse then any other type of reality tv show, inevitibly there is always some kind of a twist which they are never told about beforehand.

[c00ky83]

Looks a barrel of laughs if you ask me!

[kazza12345]

you may as well watch beadles about or noel edmonds if setting people up for a fall is good television

[mycatis]

I just know how totally gutted I would be! and that's without the added "surprise" of it being broadcast to the nation.

[KebabMeister]

When is it on anyway?

[littleoldme]

Hmmm. Reality TV...unoriginal concept...been hyped up for weeks...Johnny Vaughan...how many reasons not to watch it can one programme have?

[bernardo]

I thought it was hilarious! If they actually believe that they are in space when they can still feel gravity (i.e. they are not in free-fall (i.e. they are not in orbit)) then they will be too stupid to realise it's a hoax, even when it is revealed. But anyway, one mitigating factor is that they all volunteered for something without knowing exactly what it was. They weeded out the people who said they wanted to be astronauts etc. My expectation is that they will all rumble the whole thing fairly quickly - either by saying something openly or by having serious "doubts" albeit unmentioned.

[littleoldme]

Couldn't be bothered to watch it myself, but apparently, according to some smart a*se on another website, it's all a double bluff - all or at least some of the cadets are actors, and the hoax is not on the contestants, but on us, the great British public.

Why, the cheeky scamps.

[Cockney_si]

They get givern cash prizes so I guess they will probably be happy for the "experience" and the money.

[chazza]

Littleoldme, 3 of them are actors, the programme stated this last night

[jenstar]

Actually, watching this last night it struck me that there is one thing about this show that sets it apart from every other practical joke show over the last millennium: they've deliberately gone for idiots who are asking for it. These people really, really DESERVE to be hoaxed and humiliated. And they will be. Serves them right.

[nedflanders]

Are you bugging our office CAT? I was saying exactly the same thing to buttons yesterday afternoon!

[Confab]

Watching last night I think that they are all actors and the con is on us. Do you honestly think that they belive they are in space? In a low orbit so gravity isn't a problem. I know some people are daft but not that daft. I won't be watching again its rubbish.

[KebabMeister]

Johnny Vaughn is from the same town where I used to live and her sister lived around the corner from me. She used to come round on occasion and she was a complete space cadet, seriously! How ironic!! :)

Anyway, although I thought this was whole concept was a terrible joke, I think it will be quite fun because they didn't actually sign up to go into space, they just signed up for a TV thingymajig and with that goes anything really!

[jamesy boy]

Is this where Channel 4 try to convince the British public that anything featuring Clarkson-Lite Johnny Vaughan will be worth watching?

He hasn't been entertaining for the best part of a decade now, (" 'Orrible", anyone? thought not.) and I suspect this show will continue the trend.

Mind you, as a convicted drug-dealer he has experience of making a living from peddling misery, so at least he should bring a certain professonalism to this twaddle.

[bernardo]

Confab wrote:

Watching last night I think that they are all actors and the con is on us. Do you honestly think that they belive they are in space? In a low orbit so gravity isn't a problem. I know some people are daft but not that daft. I won't be watching again its rubbish.

I will continue to watch it for precisely this reason. It will be fascinating to see how they respond or react to the gravity question.

[tell-me-more]

Taking it at face value, I did enjoy the guy who said last night "it's freezing out here".

The contestants were each asked to nominate a close friend who they would trust to make a decision on their behalf and those friends were asked if they should go ahead, so they can't really complain too much.

Did anyone else spot the car with the british number plate supposedly in Russia?

I hope they end with the contestants looking down on Earth and then Earth exploding or something like that. Or perhaps another astronaut knocking on the window going "Let me in! Save me! Save me!" who turns out to be Noel Edmonds/Jeremy "one big hand, one small" Beadle.