Channel 4 show where 10 contestants had to stay awake for a week.

[texas2sweetie]

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/shattered

Does anyone remember this? I don't think I've heard of it before, but it aired back in 2004 and Dermot O'Leary presented it. It's on 4od if anyone wants to watch it.

For those of you who have watched it, was it interesting?

 

[tkj1991]

Yes!! I thought I dreamt it, no one I knew remembered it!

 

[Lovely Bride]

Was it the one where they were on heroin? Or is that a different show?

 

[queen bee.]

Sort of, but I don't think it ever turned out to be what people were expecting. IIRC, they actually had to start letting the contestants have little mini-naps, on the advice of doctors.

 

[Kawaii]

I remember watching it
They did tasks, it was so boring and they had a time each day where they can sleep I think

 

[scherer_ga]

I remember it too! In retrospect, I can't believe I actually watched this; it sounRAB so boring.

I did find it interesting though and I can't believe some contestants lasted more than 50 hours! I don't think I could last more than 24 hours.

On a tangent, does anyone remember a show called Space Cadets, where people think they are actually going into space even though they did not. I liked that show better.

 

[noiket]

wasn't there one recently called the hole or something where they were under ground ???

 

[dirtysanchez]

I remember Space Cadets. Not sure I ever really bought that the contestants didn't know what was going on though. Bit of an odd show really.

 

[Brianna P]

I only watched the last episode, where the producers put them in a room with comfortable beRAB in complete darkness and the last one to fall alseep won.

I do remember Space Cadets, it was quite good although I didnt buy into the whole fact that the contestants were unaware they weren't in Space. However, after watching the "reveal" it was quite convincing as they were thick as pig poop.

 

[Messed up Mikey]

Space Cadets had it's own RAB sub-forum..........it was brilliant !

The forum I mean, the show was pretty good as well...........

I even think Shattered had it's own sub-forum as well..........

RTV used to be popular back in those days............

 

[phone]

I remember Shattered...just.

Space cadets I remember watching and quite enjoying. Particularly the way the actors kept doing amazing things and none of the muppets worked it out.

 

[slyone36]

I remember it well : it was almost like Big Brother set in a laboratory.

I recall the girl that won was a good looking lass in her early 20s and she beat two blokes on the final day.

They didn't literally remain awake for ten days though....I think they were allowed 30 minutes or one hour's sleep a day or something.

 

[ROCKetMAN]

I actually think about the sleep programme a lot... Bizarrely... I often wonder whether I could last. I don't remember that they had naps!

 

[love my kids]

They had but it wasn't shown on screen....I think to stay awake for a week non stop would be physically impossible

 

[monique b]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPH8u33CqSc
^EPISODE 1^

youtube has the whole show on 4od

it only lasted a week i think
was quite good i thought but definatly would have gotten stale after 2-3 series i think still i would have liked to have seeen a shattered 2

 

[199 more to lvl 3 (1000)]

You can't say "it only lasted a week" - it was only meant to be for a week, that was the series' duration!

 

[Carinne B]

I loved Ally McBeal

 

[Shadi Badi]

Not at all. If you read books on psychology, quite a few people have stayed awake for much longer. I honestly thought they stayed awake for real. I remember discussion at the time along the lines of it was a failure because they just couldn't achieve it.

 

[malibu420allday]

Not at all. If you read psychology books, people have stayed awake for longer. Some suffer bad effects; others none. I thought this was a real experiment. Seems a bit silly to let them nap. Ah well!

 

[carmella.2006]

Oops. Re-typed post thinking it hadn't worked!