TV
Brown wants 'Apprentice'-like reality show
Published Wednesday, May 14 2008, 12:54 BST | By Simon Reynolds
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is in discussions with TV producers to star in his own reality show, reports say.
MP Hazel Blears was photographed carrying an email print-out detailing a show with the working title Junior PM to a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
The email from producer Margaret McCabe pitched the show, which would feature aspiring politicians as contestants, as being targeted for the "Apprentice meets Maria/Strictly Come Dancing audience".
The memo added that the show was "not stunt TV" and as a judge, Brown could become "more popular than Alan Sugar".
A spokesman for Blears confirmed that a reality show was in the works: "It is a very worthy programme idea. These young people would engage and have some kind of competition, and then there would be a way of electing a young prime minister for a day.
"The idea is to get more young people interested in politics. But it hasn't been commissioned yet. It is very early days."
MP Hazel Blears was photographed carrying an email print-out detailing a show with the working title Junior PM to a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
The email from producer Margaret McCabe pitched the show, which would feature aspiring politicians as contestants, as being targeted for the "Apprentice meets Maria/Strictly Come Dancing audience".
The memo added that the show was "not stunt TV" and as a judge, Brown could become "more popular than Alan Sugar".
A spokesman for Blears confirmed that a reality show was in the works: "It is a very worthy programme idea. These young people would engage and have some kind of competition, and then there would be a way of electing a young prime minister for a day.
"The idea is to get more young people interested in politics. But it hasn't been commissioned yet. It is very early days."
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