A brand new live entertainment format follows a group of thrill-seeking contestants in their quest to take part in the challenge of a lifetime. From the audition process, through to the rigorous selection procedure, an exhaustive training programme and the secret mission itself, this show promises to be the ultimate experience. Further details to be issued the morning of Wednesday 16 November.
Not exactly. It's a big hoax in which people are "trained as astronauts" and "go into space". The participants are already holed up in a military base somewhere in England (though they think they're in Russia).
Space Cadets will air over ten nights from 7 Dec, hosted by Johnny Vaughan.
It follows the progress as 100 candidates who applied to the "Space Tourism Agency" are whittled down to 4 who will go on a trip of a lifetime - into space, after undergoing an intensive programme at a Russian space.
However, they won't leave the earth - or the UK in fact. It's being filmed at a secret disused airbase in the UK. One of the final four will be an actor, and though the final four will believe they are off into space, it's all being done with IMAX screens!
E4 will have a spin-off show Space Cadets: The Satellite Show, hosted by Alex Zane, plus live streaming from Dec 11th (suggesting the first few shows are the selection process!)
Should be interesting if they are fooled - though it'll flop completly if they twig!
and though the final four will believe they are off into space, it's all being done with IMAX screens!
I don't think that will fool anyone. It was believable in
Mission: Impossible
in the 60s, but not any more - unless they've recently invented 360 degree 100fps holographic 3D IMAX.
Though they did recently resurrect the idea in
Enterprise
, by sticking plasma screens outside the windows of a shuttle
Interesting idea, similar to the spoof reality show, Invasion Iowa, but I'm not sure I get it. How are these people supposed to believe they are in Russia when they are still in the UK ?
Won't the fact they haven't travelled anywhere be a problem ?
Won't the fact they haven't travelled anywhere be a problem?
They could take them up in a plane (on a cloudy night) and fly them around a bit before landing wherever they're filming.
Or knock them all out with a glass of milk...
It all sounds a bit cruel and pointless to me, unless they play it for laughs in which case it wouldn't be very "reality", and more like an extended episode of
Game For A Laugh
... now that does sound cruel and pointless
But shouldn't they be all weightless and floating around?!?!?
BBC News posted:
A custom-built screen just outside the shuttle will attempt to provide the illusion of a view of Earth.
But producers will not have to recreate weightlessness because the contestants are to be told their orbit will take them to Near Space, not Deep Space, where they could experience the sensation.
