Space Cadets

Yeah, and then you've

got, like, amazing stuff like Space Cadets.

That's six episodes, eight episodes of Channel 4.

The

Absolutely, yeah.

Like, uh, like it's, one of the worst examples of that that I remember from the sorta heyday, well, that's probably the wrong word for it, but the Wild West of reality TV, was Space Cadets, which was one Endemol made in the UK.

And this was where they got people to apply to be the first reality TV show contestants sent into space, and then they tricked them.

They were in, like, a garage in Luton or somewhere, being rocked around-

How Irish.

[laughs]

This, this speaks to my theory, actually, that a lot of those early shows came from people in the pub coming up with a potential title for a show and then retrofitting a show around it, like Come Dine With Me or Space Cadets, that we already, that we already mentioned.

But, like, this, this is a, that's actually one that I think could, could possibly come back and d- and do quite well.

It's amazing how confident we can be when we don't actually know what's going on.

In a 2005 British television reality show called Space Cadets, decided to see just how far they could take this.

Three contestants were convinced that they had been selected to become some of Britain's first space tourists.

They went through astronaut training, they were brought to what they believed was a Russian space facility.