Latest reality show promises compulsive viewing
Channel 4 are to put three obsessive compulsive disorder sufferers in a house together for a new TV show.
The OCD House will attempt to cure them of their condition in just two weeks with an experimental treatment programme.
The three participants are a woman who is unable to share a bed with her husband or hug her children, a man who believes he will “incriminate” himself if he touches another human being, and a woman who spends three hours each day washing her hands.
Channel 4 insist The OCD House is a serious observational documentary trialling a new method of treatment.
Leading OCD specialist Professor Paul Salkovskis of the Maudsley Hospital is involved in the programme.
The show is being made by Monkey Kingdom, the production company of Chris Evans’ ex-sidekick Will Macdonald.
On its website, Monkey Kingdom says the three sufferers will be set a series of tasks and must try to overcome their condition in just 14 days.
“For the three participants, it’s the last chance saloon... Can they overcome 20 plus years of OCD in just 14 days? Or are they and their families condemned to a life of OCD misery forever? Everything hangs in the balance for the next fortnight at The OCD House,” it reads.
The programme is one of the highlights of Channel 4’s summer schedule.
Other shows include Indian Finishing School, in which four “indecorous Brits” are sent to leading schools in New Delhi in a bid to improve their behaviour.
Wakey Wakey Campers will pack off families, neighbours and work colleagues to an old-fashioned British holiday camp.
Escape to the Legion sends 11 volunteers and explorer Bear Grylls to recreate the experience of training for the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara desert.
And in a meeting of two reality shows, How Clean Are The F***ing Fulfords sends hygiene enforcers Kim and Aggie to the home of The F***ing Fulfords, the foul-mouthed upper class family who starred in their own documentary last year.
Meet the Magoons is a new comedy revolving around four Indian lads working in a Glasgow curry house, while Avid Merrion’s Bo Selecta! bear gets his own series, A Bear’s Tail.
Serious documentary comes in the shape of The Empire Pays Back, in which a group of experts calculate the amount owed by Britain to the descendants of slaves.
Julie Burchill’s controversial teen novel Sugar Rush also hits screen this summer.
