Please contact the person below for more info, not me, and don't post your response here. Hello I'm working on a new programme for ITV1 which aims to explore different life/work ethos and lifestyles. Within the programme we are looking to find two men (with a wife/partner/family) who have different attitudes to living and working and who, along with their family/partner, would each be interested in the challenge of switching jobs and experiencing the other's way of work/life for a week in an attempt to learn more about their own choices and lifestyle. At the end of the week each family may feel that the experience has served to reinforce their conviction in their lifestyle choices but it is also an opportunity for people to experience a completely different way of living which may prompt people to open their eyes to new attitudes and re-think priorities. We are looking for people who have chosen an alternative lifestyle and try to live an ethically and ecologically sound existence. If you know people that would be interested in finding out more about this I would love to hear from them. Please do give me a ring if you have any questions. Many thanks for your help, Gaetan Mourgue Researcher 0207 633 2791 Granada Factual London SE1
Why would anyone want to sell themselves out to some corporate assholes to be on some trash television show?
The real irony here is that they're looking for people who've chosen an alternative lifestyle as opposed to the straight and narrow, and asking them to swap and go back to that which they've already rejected. That makes no sense. I see the other couple maybe having an enlightening experience, but why torture someone who already knows and rejects the other lifestyle? It's like hey, wanna live by the clock, get all stressed out and fuck some strange woman? Oh, and btw, you can't get stoned anymore, just drunk. You'd have to pay me a lot (oh well if the woman's nice, maybe not so much...eh?) Is this supposed to be a survivor type of show where you're put in a stressful situation with strangers and you're supposed to prove you're better than everyone else? On the other hand it would be amusing to see the button down corporate types have a go at living off the land. Wasn't that Mao's idea?
*cough* ... has giles got himself s girlfriend yet. *snigger* sorry IT WAS A JOKE before anyone hounds me... but come on.... it was bound to be said by someone
Actually i always said if i was going to do one of those tacky real life type shows Wife swap would be one i might do. Just because i'd like to expeiance someone elses life for a week and see what its like. And also let them experiance my life. However i think it would be better if it wasnt broadcast across national telly *blush*
Oh-I-saw-flyers-for-this-at-the-Big-Green-Gathering... Seems-like-ITV-are-yet-again-making-a-reality-tv-show....I-do-hope-whoever-does-this-realises-they-are-just-providing-ITV-with-another-cheap-to-make-program?-No-scriptwriters-or-actors-to-pay-etc... They'll-use-you-and-most-likely-make-you-look-like-a-twat...your-personal-lives-will-be-made-open-to-the-tabloids-...you'll-have-no-control-over-how-they-choose-to-make-you-appear. hmmmm.....don't-do-it!!!!!!!!!!!
I think more like they will fall into every stereotyped clich imaginable. Make 'true' hippies cringe at the awfulness . ITV are unlikely to pick level headed 'normal' people .. just hyper hippies and mail readin 'straight' people.. On the other hand, they [ITV} could do a sterling job... ones never to know. I hope they don't do GMTV , now that would be a disgrace.
I'd rather slowly push my head into a blender over the course of an hour than spend one minute being filmed by these drivel-media whores.
I dont see why your getting all worked up about it, its a chance for others to look into the ways that other people live, their alternative ways. For fucks sake stop getting all emotional about it, you should be pleased that other people are wanting to look at alternative living etc.
you think they'll be showing "alternative living"?? ....or perhaps 'jasmine' the sex-change judo instructor that only eats guava fruit and hates jews. i think thats the alternatives they want... you know, the tabloid mentality ratings... (re: crapmuppet; p.s. yeh, bastards, they turned me down at the interview. my parot wasn't camp enough.) ~
I-don't-think-anyone's-getting-particularily-emotional... it's-a-forum...we're-each-giving-our-views...that's-how-these-things-work. For-fucks-sake...stop-getting-worked-up
This is indeed almost certainly "Wife Swap". Was reading a UK's commune website this week and they said they had been approached for Wife Swap, but had turned it down. They had done other more worthy TV programmes, however.
dya get paid or win a prize or anything??? there welcome to come round my house and watch me lay on the settee and spend my giro's on lettuce and beads
They'll probably pay you a few quid. Charles Ingram done it didn't he, to help pay off all the money he was owing. I guess he negotiated a higher fee than your usual riff raff though, owing to he had been in all the papers for cheating on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
pie chips n gravy today, hmmm i seem to alternate between that and salad at the moment, the hummous pitta and chilli peppers seem to have been phazed out. i did eat a tub of ice cream yesterday for dinner. i was doin the taste challenge between toffuti and swedish glaze. swedish is better i reckon. amytaville horror is on anyway, so off to watch end of that. good night people x x x