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Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
TV show HANDCUFFS strangers together for £100,000 - how to take part
Jonathan Ross returns to Channel 4 to run this daring and ultimately heart-warming social experiment A famous phrase says 'hell is other people' – can eight pairs of strangers survive being handcuffed to one another for weeks? Will they learn to love one another? Channel 4 has commissioned Handcuffed from 72 Films, a Fremantle Company – takes eight pairs of strangers with completely opposed opinions, beliefs, lifestyles, and bad habits, and handcuffs them together 24/7 in the ultimate test of survival. The couples will be handcuffed together through thick and thin, as they navigate eating, dressing and even sleeping just inches apart. READ MORE: Shackled around the clock, the pairs will be sent on a road trip across our beautiful nation, in the hope they find common ground along the way. If a pair can last longest chained together, they'll be in the running for a £100,000 jackpot – but if it proves too much and they demand to be unchained, their shot at the jackpot is gone. Drawn from across the UK, the couples will represent the wide range of views and opinions found in modern Britain. Will the chance to win a huge cash prize drive them to stay together whatever, or will their massive differences lead them to quit? This timely experiment will be overseen by mastermind Jonathan Ross, who'll pair up the couples and guide them on their path to reconciliation. The series marks the host's return to Channel 4, having started his career presenting The Last Resort on the Channel in 1987. If you think you could survive being handcuffed to a stranger, in return for a possible share of the £100,000 prize fund, applications are open now. Jonathan Ross said: 'I believe this experiment will go a small way to healing a fractured Britain; after all, to know is to love. I'm rooting for our couples to go the distance and not let our differences overpower us.' Tim Hancock, Commissioning Editor, says: 'Funny, intense, and featuring a cast reflecting a truly diverse range of British characters, this is the kind of social experiment you'd only see on Channel 4. The series aims capture modern Britain by examining its divisions and hopefully helping mend some of them too.' David Glover, Executive Producer, says: 'The show is designed to both to be funny and to have a surprising amount of heart. The winners will have to be able to put their differences aside and get along.' Handcuffed is a 6x60', commissioned by Tim Hancock for Channel 4. The Executive Producers for 72 Films are David Glover, Tim Whitwell and Tom Clarke, series editor Ben Allen and Production Exec Alex Nicholson.
New York Times
15-04-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
30 Years Later, a New Look at the Oklahoma City Bombing
David Glover holds up what looks like a pair of gray bricks. They were once part of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which was bombed by Timothy McVeigh on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people. It remains the deadliest domestic terror attack in U.S. history. Glover, an executive producer of the new three-part docuseries 'Oklahoma City Bombing: One Day in America,' explained in a video interview that he had received the rubble from Mike Shannon, a firefighter featured in the film. Shannon wanted the filmmaker to feel the weight of the project in his hands. 'It was almost like he was saying, 'Don't forget this is real,'' Glover said. ''Don't forget you've got a responsibility here.' It is a physical artifact that has a lot of heft to it.' Shannon needn't have worried. The series, now streaming on Hulu and Disney+, follows a pattern set by the first two 'One Day in America' installments, which covered the Sept. 11 attacks and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The stories are less interested in granules of policy and the sweep of history than in the experiences of individuals who were present for events that shook the country. (Glover is an executive producer on all of the 'One Day in America' series, which were produced by 72 Films, the company he founded with Mark Raphael.) This approach means that McVeigh, the violent anti-government extremist who bombed the Murrah building (and was executed in 2001), takes a back seat to the Oklahomans whose lives were shattered that day, many of whom appear here to give their accounts of the shock and its aftermath. This includes emergency medical workers, victims, family members, law enforcement officers and even McVeigh's court-appointed attorney, who admits to fearing for his life when he learned the identity of his new client. Even the more famous and consequential interview subjects approach the day's events from a personal perspective. Bill Clinton, who was in the first term of his presidency when the attack occurred (and was in the middle of a White House news conference on terrorism when he was notified about it), lost one of his favorite Secret Service agents in the bombing. 'I wanted to scream,' Clinton says in the series. 'Then I said, 'No, you can't do that. You don't get to scream.'' Ceri Isfryn, who directed the docuseries, was also struck by what happened after their interview. 'He said at the end of it that we'd asked him questions he'd never been asked before, which was surprising to me,' she said, sitting beside Glover in a video interview. 'There's something about asking people to almost freeze time in really specific moments that gives for a different and more vulnerable interview.' Clinton wasn't the only person who gained new insight through interviews with the filmmaking team. At the time of the bombing, Amy Downs was a 28-year-old staff member at Federal Employees Credit Union, which lost 18 of its 33 employees in the attack. As she recalls in the series, she was trapped upside down in her office chair as firefighters dug through the rubble for survivors. Shannon, the same fireman who gave the filmmakers chunks of the building, heard her crying for help. In the series, Shannon recalls how bad he felt after another bomb scare forced an evacuation of the building and he had to leave Downs pleading for assistance (she was rescued when firefighters were allowed back in). In an interview, Downs, who eventually became chief executive of the resurrected credit union (renamed Allegiance Credit Union), said she was never aware of Shannon's internal conflict until she saw the documentary footage and Shannon's interview. 'I had forgotten about begging Mike Shannon to stay, and I didn't know about the battle that he had not wanting to leave,' Downs said. 'I didn't put myself in his shoes. I hate that I made him feel the way I did.' She said she had weighed more at the time of the explosion and that fact, surprisingly, was probably what allowed her to stay in her chair as it hung upside down. The experience of surviving the trauma of the bombing inspired her to go back to school, first for a bachelor's degree in organizational leadership, and then for an MBA. Much of the footage in the series came from a single source: Oklahoma City-based KWTV News 9, which opened up its rushes to the 'One Day in America' team. The startlingly immediate images are accompanied by newly recorded witness narration that describes what is onscreen. The station also provided the series one of its most compelling interview subjects. Robin Marsh had started working at KWTV just nine days before the bombing. At 9:01 a.m. that day she was in a meeting to prepare for her afternoon news anchor job when a colleague entered the news director's office. The assistant fire chief had called to say there had been an explosion downtown. 'And then our building shook like there had been an earthquake,' Marsh said in an interview. 'We were about 10 miles away. We knew immediately that something catastrophic had happened.' The footage from that day provides an extraordinary look at a newsroom jolted into action. We see the moment when the station staff members realize the importance of the date: April 19, 1995, two years from the day when the siege on the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco, Texas, ended in a deadly inferno (which McVeigh identified as a primary source of his anti-government rage). Viewers see Marsh walk onto the set of the live newscast with handwritten updates. And we see her running for cover, again live on the air, when that second bomb scare is announced. Marsh, who is still an anchor at the station — she also leads tours of the bombing memorial site — pointed out how differently big news was gathered and disseminated 30 years ago. The 24-hour news cycle was a fairly recent innovation. News 9 stayed on the air for 90 consecutive hours, from Wednesday to Sunday. 'Did I go home?' Marsh said. 'Yes. Did I rest? I'm not sure.' To Marsh, the 'One Day in America' series was made in the same spirit as the effort her station made to tell the story as intimately as possible. 'It gives you a glimpse of heroism on a level that in some ways your mind can't comprehend,' she said. 'They let you hear from the people who were there. The spirit of the story is told so well.'
