Station:
Channel 4 (GB)
Status:
Running
Start:
2023-10-31
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Six celebrities are participating in a four-part constructed documentary series where they will be locked up as prisoners for eight days, in decommissioned HMP Shrewsbury, to investigate what life is really like behind bars.The six well-known inmates will be incarcerated with a variety of real ex-criminals, including those who have served long sentences for serious crimes - although all are now reformed and have agreed to re-enter prison for this series. The well-known inmates will have the opportunity to interrogate their cellmates on their prison experiences and former crimes - as well as examine the impact of the system on them – for better or worse.Run by a former prison governor, with 20 years' experience in some of the UK's toughest prisons, and former prison officers, the inmates will live by current UK prison rules.
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S1E2 - Episode 2
Former Tory MP Neil Parish arrives for a stint behind bars and finds himself in a cell with international drug dealer Chet Sandhu, who doesn't exactly provide a warm welcome. Pop star HRVY has a rude awakening when he refuses to take off his gold bracelet during processing, former EastEnders actor Sid Owen tries to break petty criminal Liam's cycle of crime with an acting class and Gogglebox star Marcus Luther attends an anger management course.
Air Date: 07 Nov 2023 15:15 (CDT)
S1E3 - Episode 3
EastEnders actor Sid Owen, comedian and actor Tom Rosenthal, Gogglebox star Marcus Luther, singer HRVY, Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens and former MP Neil Parish agree to be locked up as prisoners for eight days, in decommissioned HMP Shrewsbury, to investigate what life is really like behind bars.
Air Date: 14 Nov 2023 15:15 (CDT)
S1E4 - Episode 4
HRVY is roped into a secret drone delivery and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens meets his cellmate who was once dubbed 'Britain's Naughtiest Schoolboy' in the Daily Mail. Marcus Luther is on the hunt for an illicit phone to watch his son online and Tom Rosenthal grows increasingly frustrated with the prison rules. As the experiment comes to an end, the VIPs reflect on their time inside.
Air Date: 15 Nov 2023 15:00 (CDT)