Cast Offs: ‘Disabled’ Survivor?

By David Knox on November 20, 2009 / Filed Under News 7

coIt’s bound to be politically incorrect.

It’s put together by the people behind Skins, Shameless and The Thick of It.

But the new E4 show Cast Offs looks like a ripping satire of Survivor with disabled people. It includes ‘dwarfism, cherubism, thalidomide-affected, paraplegic, blind and deaf’ characters.

Officially it is described as “A darkly comic drama series telling the story of six disabled characters sent to a remote British island for a fictional reality TV show.”

Warning: clip may offend.
See the clip here.

7 Comments »

  1. Whirly Whirly November 22, 2009 at 8:54 am -

    That’s Kiruna Stamell, she’s Australian you know.

  2. Craig F November 21, 2009 at 4:12 pm -

    I’d rather watch MILF Island. I’m amazed Channel 9 hasn’t bought the Australian rights yet.

  3. J-Lev November 20, 2009 at 6:29 pm -

    So we have had Dead Set (Zombie Big Brother) and now this Cast Off’s show, next thing you know the1958 Robert Sheckley Novel The Prize of Peril (made as a movie in 1983 by the French called Le Prix du Danger which is a lot like The Running Man written by Stephen King in 1982 and the Film in 1987), will be turned into a Reality TV Show (either that or Battle Royale will).

  4. Michael November 20, 2009 at 5:41 pm -

    Now that sounds like the only type of survivor show i would watch, this sounds totally hilarious.

  5. Someone BBBA November 20, 2009 at 5:24 pm -

    I hope they all get eaten by Zombies as well.

  6. mikeys November 20, 2009 at 5:23 pm -

    Sweet, looks good to me!

  7. Craig November 20, 2009 at 4:56 pm -

    LOL now it’s come full circle, a fictional show about a reality program…

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