Space Cadets Channel 4 Programme
Space Cadets Channel 4
I was all excited last night whilst watching Lost on Channel 4 – not because it was nearing bedtime and Mrs B was looking alluring – but because there was one of those teaser one second flash adverts for a forthcoming TV programme called Space Cadets. I thought it was for the excellent comedy science fiction programme that was on in the late 1990’s which was written by Still Game and Chewin The Fat stars Greg Hemphill and Ford Kiernan which starred such great Scots like Sylvester McCoy and Fred Macaulay along with some of the UK’s leading comics Craig Charles (Red Dwarf) and Bill Bailey (Black Books).
But no this is a fantastically original reality TV programme that takes volunteers and trains them to be astronauts and blasts them out to outer space – or so they think! They’ve been transported to Russia to train – which is in fact a helicopter flight around the UK! Off the helicopter they hop and enter a UK based training camp which is a former American Airbase.
Their cosmonaut training using the latest NASA and Soviet technology is really film sets from Space Cowboys which starred Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones and James Garner and also from the film Deep Impact which starred Robert Duvall, Elijah Wood and Morgan Freeman.
This joke hoax is going to be such fun to watch – I can’t believe how gullible people are – mind you I firmly believe the Clangers are real!
One of the contestants is an actor who is there to make sure the pretence is kept up.
The Space Cadet programme starts on Channel 4 on Wednesday December 7 at 9pm and if none of the 100 contestants (only 4 go to outer space) twig the farce then it’ll be on for 10 days.
Digital viewers can see more live TV on E4 hosted by Johnny Vaughan and Alex Zane.
Cannae wait to see this – in between watching I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
But don’t tell the missus if I find this more alluring than her!!
Chris
I was all excited last night whilst watching Lost on Channel 4 – not because it was nearing bedtime and Mrs B was looking alluring – but because there was one of those teaser one second flash adverts for a forthcoming TV programme called Space Cadets. I thought it was for the excellent comedy science fiction programme that was on in the late 1990’s which was written by Still Game and Chewin The Fat stars Greg Hemphill and Ford Kiernan which starred such great Scots like Sylvester McCoy and Fred Macaulay along with some of the UK’s leading comics Craig Charles (Red Dwarf) and Bill Bailey (Black Books).
But no this is a fantastically original reality TV programme that takes volunteers and trains them to be astronauts and blasts them out to outer space – or so they think! They’ve been transported to Russia to train – which is in fact a helicopter flight around the UK! Off the helicopter they hop and enter a UK based training camp which is a former American Airbase.
Their cosmonaut training using the latest NASA and Soviet technology is really film sets from Space Cowboys which starred Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones and James Garner and also from the film Deep Impact which starred Robert Duvall, Elijah Wood and Morgan Freeman.
This joke hoax is going to be such fun to watch – I can’t believe how gullible people are – mind you I firmly believe the Clangers are real!
One of the contestants is an actor who is there to make sure the pretence is kept up.
The Space Cadet programme starts on Channel 4 on Wednesday December 7 at 9pm and if none of the 100 contestants (only 4 go to outer space) twig the farce then it’ll be on for 10 days.
Digital viewers can see more live TV on E4 hosted by Johnny Vaughan and Alex Zane.
Cannae wait to see this – in between watching I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
But don’t tell the missus if I find this more alluring than her!!
Chris
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