Channel 4's Shattered: An Experiment in Sleep Deprivation

[@officialbackintheday]

Glad to get the first video of 2025 uploaded. This was a very peculiar reality show from the early 2000s and it has always stuck in my mind, so I thought it would be an interesting show to cover. What are your memories of this show, and do you think you would have what it takes to go 7 days with almost no sleep? Hope you all enjoy and thanks for watching!

[@disneydaniel3163]

Do you remember a kids game show could play the game?

[@JohnSmithShields]

That Mastermind quiz was a brilliant Two Ronnies sketch years before. Highly recommended to watch.

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

Another great find which I missed back then! Very interesting in concept at least...

[@JohnSmithShields]

I missed this when originally aired, but remember a few at work talking about it. As someone who regularly does nightshifts, you'd be surprised how effective a 10 minute nap can be to refresh yourself, so a 90 sleep would be very refreshing.

[@kerravondarrow]

Would love to see a video about Jailbreak from 2000, complete with Craig Charles. Remember it being a mess in a fun way, and the contestants largely missing the pre set up escape routes

[@officialbackintheday]

If I am able to find the episodes of this, I will certainly cover it on the channel. Leave it with me ;)

[@Wheels_Paws]

Well, I just found my new channel to binge.

[@officialbackintheday]

Thanks, hope you enjoy the content :)

[@Wheels_Paws]

No need to hope, my friend. Keep up the great niche topics.

[@SteveAustin-zv1nn]

Ha, I've not seen or thought about this since I watched it back then. Completely forgotten. Yet watching this it's all coming back. I definitely remember the Terminator lady. I was about 17/18 and I had a big crush on her. This show was kinda like Big Brother's stillborn little brother.

[@steveeaton6952]

I was telling some people I work with about this show once, they are much younger than me. None of them believed that it was real, because it's not something you could do now.

[@AIBETTSYIA75]

Does anyone remember a similar show about denying people use of their senses? People in cells with blindfolds on and one guy hallucinated seeing clams

[@lavenderoil2922]

Ive thought about this show for years! Id love to watch it in full...I couldnt do this at all Id go crazy!!!

[@MrElusive79]

I remember watching this when it originally aired, it did stick with me. I always thought I'd be able to do something like this as I never got much sleep due to playing games/watching tv series all night with 2-3 hours sleep before work the next day, but it'd also mean having to be social with others which would be an environment I wouldn't have thrived in. Clare won, I remember she revealed she was able to give herself cramps, which she used during the final to win - £97k - nice prize for this!

[@officialbackintheday]

Yea I think when I was younger, I might have been able to do this. Definitely not now I don't think!

[@MegsterTalks]

Now I haven't fully watched the video but I do remember watching this and somehow it was one of the craziest things I ever saw. I think it really shows what 7 days of litterally no sleep feels like and the fact someone even did that is insane. Genuinely interesting to watch back in the day. I randomly had an idea about another video you could do which is a retrospective or just a general video about a show called 101 ways to leave a game show which I thought was hilarious at the time when I used to watch it. I guess some other ones I could recommend would be like. Fun House, Dara Obriens go 8 bit (its really hard to find full episodes of this nowadays but I really loved the show), Mabye even I'm a celebrity get me out of here. Yeah I'm British lmao.

[@officialbackintheday]

Thanks for the suggestions for future videos. I'll definitely be covering some of those at some point! :)

[@mb2000]

Is the house set made to look like the inside of the Nostromo on purpose?

[@Ian_Hoare_Music]

I saw one of the contestants shortly after this show was on - and they still looked tired!!

[@jamesabernethy7896]

This is something that would have intrigued me but strangely I don't remember anything about this.

[@dimitrinicomanis]

You must've slept on it 😅

[@ewanaitchison2579]

I do remember watching this. Certainly interesting, if morally questionable. In a similar vein, would be good to see you cover The Tourist Trap from 1998. Was on channel 4 and then rebroadcast later by Sky. It had tourists of different nationalities come to a hotel with hidden cameras and put through different situations to see how people from different cultures would react. I've never rewatched it but it is on youtube - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXPQe6Gfbsd1haM

[@aaronstebbings1729]

Produced by Daisy Edgar-Jones' father

[@mattyboy2024]

Yeah, I remember that :) my fave big brother-influenced show was Genderquake though ha (also channel 4)

[@Bananapeels-Make-Great-Skates]

Say what you like about shattered as a reality show, it was the only one that I ever bothered to watch. Good vid as always.

[@UKProgRock]

I watched this with my ex, was certainly something