The BBC have this little article about Channel 4 making a documentary whereby they take some members of a pygmy tribe, and see how they cope living in London. It’s a reversal of the usual method of dropping some random urbanite into the wilderness with some ancient tribe and seeing how they cope.
A nice idea, I first thought, but as I mulled it over more, I realised it is going to be on Channel 4. If it was Discovery, National Geographic or the BBC making it, it would be a worthwhile programme. Channel 4 are probably likely to do their usual thing of making the show 50% worthwhile, and then doing some other totally stupid things. Stupid OBVIOUS things. So, my current bets for the silly things they’ll try and make their pygmies do are:
- Take them out on the town for a night and get them totally drunk/in fights.
- Send them out on the pull.
- Send them on a parachute fall.
I could be wrong about this – I hope I am – but Channel 4′s documentaries aren’t exactly known for being all that great. Then again, it could be worse. It could be Channel 5.