C4 pilot in the pipeline

Imaginative TV executives are plotting yet another prank show.

Production company Twofour, makers of Channel 4’s current hit Educating Yorkshire, are piloting a comedy-entertainment show called C4 Made Me Do It.

They say it ‘ingeniously produced practical jokes with the nation's appetite for childish behaviours’.

If commissioned it would be the latest in a very long line of hidden camera shows made in the past couple of years.

Channel 4 already has I’m Spazticus, featuring disabled performers, and Public Eye, which has not yet been aired, in which pranks are designed to test passers-by on moral issues. Meanwhile sister channel E4 has aired The Work Experience and Lee Kern’s Celebrity Bedlam, in which he tricked Z-list celebrities.

There has also been Richard Hammond’s Secret Service for BBC One; Fool Britannia on ITV; Off Their Rockers, also for ITV, Impractical Jokers on BBC Three and Marshal’s Law for Loaded TV. ITV also has another hidden camera show featuring magicians, called Tricked, in the pipeline.

Twofour have asked anyone interested in taking part in C4 Made Me Do It to call 020 7438 1905 – and say ‘aAnyone can pull off these pranks’.

Published: 16 Oct 2013