Producers mean to kids

The other day on digital I was watching a welsh kids show called
on S4C.
Here's is the web page about it
When you click on the tv (video clips) There is a small box at the bottom right where you have to enter a letter (for example A or B) and there's a list of names that will appear like Aron and Bethan
If you click on them you get clips from the show. There's also pics
The lucky winners get nice stuff like a Tv and DVD. The poor losers are dunked in the gunge or as the welsh call it Sludge and covered with it by an ugly clown.
Looks like they are not too gentle to the children contestants. Kind of a weakiest link humiliation type show for kids . But gunge has been used a lot by producers over the last 25 years since tiswas and many kids seem not to enjoy it one bit
What do you guys think ?

You want mean then try Ant and Dec's show on CBBC a decade ago in which they played Beat the Barber and if you loose then they would shave all your hair off whether your male or female!

Good times

This isn't anything new; Dave Benson Phillips has been doing it for 15 years now.

And so was Tiswas, many years before that.

Ah, good old Dave, still seen on Playhouse Disney. I would love to see him on a more grown-up show, just to see how different he is. I remember watching him as part of Playdays on the BBC back in the early 90s, and he's still doing the same sort of thing today! Remarkable.

Well you know from the onset that you've got the chance of being gunged but the desire/greed to win puts is stronger - noone's forcing them to put themselves forwards for the show. They deserve everything they get really!!

Humiliating? Not really. We can't all be winners. Much as New Labour would like us to "be".

He's piled on the pounds in recent years though.

I thought New Labour wanted us to be Cannon Fodder?