A group of people enter a controlled flat as part of a game show and experiment. The experiment part is that none of them will be allowed to fall asleep until the end of the week. Each day they will be asked to perform tasks to determine the impact on their abilities of lack of sleep. Those that perform the worst have to do another task - the loser of which is ejected from the house. One person will win £100,000 if they manage to hold on till the end.
Billed as some sort of worthy Big Brother twist, this game show had no redeeming features and really just copies all the other reality game shows but adds a little twist. However, in this case the twist isn't even true - the contestants were actually allowed a couple of hours sleep each day for health reasons; so, basically, the show's only unique element is actually a con. Of course, the whole point of this is not to conduct an experiment but is more a way to make the contestant fight! In every other show they have done different things to try and kick it off - BB uses drink and `treats' to try and both create fights and divisions or to get some sex going on. Shatter just took this concept and based a show on it.
It didn't really work of course - there were a few quarrels that were like the `leave it Billy he's not worth it' type that you get in small pubs near closing time but really there was nothing that interesting. The fact that all the contestants were the usual nondescript people that you might call `mate' in the pub but would never really want to befriend, doesn't help matters. Usually the tabloids adopt reality show contestants as celebrities and good gossip, but with Shattered they didn't bother - I doubt even a big fan of the show could now name all the contestants - or even half of them!
As host, Dermot O'Leary has experience of mocking, tongue in cheek humour at the expense of the show - he did it on Big Brother's Little Brother quite well; however here he is awful. Instead of having a touch of humour, he speaks constantly in hushed reverent tones as if we are witnessing something that will soon be up for a Nobel prize! He is about as bad a presenter here as you could imagine - and I've seen Richard Bacon!
Overall, a rubbish show that is just cruel and stupid: one task tested memory by having contestants work though a chain of doors three at a time (always 2 locked and 1 open); not cruel enough? The locked doors gave out electric shocks! The twist that it is based on is not even delivered properly and all in all it was as dull as you can imagine.
Billed as some sort of worthy Big Brother twist, this game show had no redeeming features and really just copies all the other reality game shows but adds a little twist. However, in this case the twist isn't even true - the contestants were actually allowed a couple of hours sleep each day for health reasons; so, basically, the show's only unique element is actually a con. Of course, the whole point of this is not to conduct an experiment but is more a way to make the contestant fight! In every other show they have done different things to try and kick it off - BB uses drink and `treats' to try and both create fights and divisions or to get some sex going on. Shatter just took this concept and based a show on it.
It didn't really work of course - there were a few quarrels that were like the `leave it Billy he's not worth it' type that you get in small pubs near closing time but really there was nothing that interesting. The fact that all the contestants were the usual nondescript people that you might call `mate' in the pub but would never really want to befriend, doesn't help matters. Usually the tabloids adopt reality show contestants as celebrities and good gossip, but with Shattered they didn't bother - I doubt even a big fan of the show could now name all the contestants - or even half of them!
As host, Dermot O'Leary has experience of mocking, tongue in cheek humour at the expense of the show - he did it on Big Brother's Little Brother quite well; however here he is awful. Instead of having a touch of humour, he speaks constantly in hushed reverent tones as if we are witnessing something that will soon be up for a Nobel prize! He is about as bad a presenter here as you could imagine - and I've seen Richard Bacon!
Overall, a rubbish show that is just cruel and stupid: one task tested memory by having contestants work though a chain of doors three at a time (always 2 locked and 1 open); not cruel enough? The locked doors gave out electric shocks! The twist that it is based on is not even delivered properly and all in all it was as dull as you can imagine.
