WEDNESDAY 07 DECEMBER
Entertainment
Space Cadets
9:00pm - 10:00pm
Channel 4
VIDEO Plus+: 1129
Subtitled
1/10
Boldly going where no reality show has gone before, this is undeniably the most elaborate, complicated and expensive hoax ever seen on TV. The idea is to send a group of adventurous contestants into space, where they'll spend five days orbiting the Earth. Of course, they'll undergo intensive training in a Russian camp
first. After all, it would be irresponsible to send them 100km up into near space completely unprepared, wouldn't it? Except that they won't be in space. They won't even be in Russia. The joke is that their "training" takes place in a disused British military base that's been dressed up to look as though it's Russian and their "shuttle" won't even leave the launch pad. Over the next ten days we'll see the selection process, training and - hopefully - the mission.
RT reviewer: Jane Rackham