The Audience: New TV show will allow crowd of 50 to solve personal dilemmas

  • The Audience will feature a group of 50 ordinary men and women who will answer life-changing questions
  • Dilemmas posed will include ‘Should I leave my job?’ and ‘Should we get married or split up?’

By
Jill Reilly

05:44 EST, 5 April 2012

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06:15 EST, 5 April 2012

A crowd of strangers will make ‘life-changing decisions’ for volunteers in a new Channel 4 show.

The Audience will feature a group of 50 ordinary men and women who will answer important questions such as ‘Should I leave my job,’  ‘Should I start again and move abroad?’ and ‘Should we get married or split up?’

The jury will follow the person posing the problem around for a week in a bid to get to know them – including at work, at home and when they are socialising, before making a decision.

Golden questions: A crowd of strangers will make 'life-changing decisions' for volunteers in a new Channel 4 show

Golden questions: A crowd of strangers will make ‘life-changing decisions’ for volunteers in a new Channel 4 show

Sometimes they will quietly observe from a distance, but at other times they will be able to ask questions. 

Close eye: The jury will follow the person who asks the question around for a week including at work

Close eye: The jury will follow the person who asks the question around for a week including at work

The programme makes say the crowd will ‘delve into people’s personal circumstances and uncover problems to inform a picture of their lives and how to improve it.

David Glover, the Channel 4 executive who commissioned the series, said: ‘Sometimes I used to daydream about what
life would be like if one were constantly being followed around by an
audience. This series has huge potential and we are now waiting to see
how the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ unfolds.’ 

The producers promise that ‘heartache, resistance and personal revelations,’ will all feature in the programme.

The
seven-part series, is due to air later this year and comes from the
same team behind the award-winning series 24 Hours in AE.

Executive
producer Jonathan Smith added: ‘We’re finding, during filming, that
living with an audience of 50 people for a week is an incredibly intense
experience. Although they can sometimes be cruel to be kind, they
really do want to help – and we’re seeing lives change for the better as
a result.’

Channel 4 are hoping the new format
will be as ground-breaking as Big Brother which ran for 11 series,
generating £88m in profits.

Another much-hyped concept, their docu-soap Seven Days, which followed a cross-section of Notting Hill residents had disappointing viewing figures.

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If it’s 50 ‘ordinary’ men and women the volunteers may get some reliable answers. I just hope they screen out any politicians so they can’t screw everything up even worse than it already is.

we already do its called the eurozone

Intriguing. It could work. Sometimes, people who are further away from the problem can see the bigger picture and can give a more dispassionate view.

We already do? and unfortunately, they are called Politicians.

Oh goodie!!, another ‘numptie’ TV show to go with all the other trash on our screens!!.

massive great big yawn.

Isn’t this show already out? I believe it’s called the government!

Just what people need, more train wreck style tv, no doubt with a smug patronising presenter like Jeremy Kyle who can belittle people with problems for the amusement of a public that only watch this kind of trash to make themselves feel a little better about their own sad lives. Soon they will show non christians being thrown to lions and have people fight each other to death on tv for entertainment.

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