Lads' Army (2002)
- Genre
- reality television
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 4 seasons, 32 episodes
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This reality series took young men with a history of troublesome behavior and dropped them into a simulation of 1950s British Army National Service. It tested whether the strict military environment could change their attitudes and behavior over the course of filming.
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What happens
Lads' Army (known in later series as Bad Lads' Army, Bad Lads' Army: Officer Class and Bad Lads' Army: Extreme) was a reality game show that constitutes a historically derived social experiment. Shown on ITV, the series is based on the premise of subjecting today's delinquent young men to the conditions of conscripts to British Army National Service of the 1950s to see if this could rehabilitate them. The narrator for the first series was Kevin Whately, then Dennis Waterman took over until the show ended in 2006. Within each series a small number of the recruits have either walked out (after a 24-hour cooling off period), or been ejected. The majority of the remaining recruits claimed some benefit from the experience, with some choosing to enlist in the real British Army following their time on the show. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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