Smuggled (2019)

Genre

documentary, reality

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Eight British nationals try to sneak into Britain past border security. The show tests how effective the country's defenses really are.

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What happens

Smuggled is a British reality television documentary miniseries shown on Channel 4. The documentary follows eight British nationals as they attempt to smuggle themselves into Britain, testing the border security. The producer, David Modell, called the UK's border security an "illusion". The show was originally scheduled to begin airing on 28 October 2019, but was postponed by a week to 4 November after 39 people were found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex. The victims, all Vietnamese, had been illegally smuggled into the UK. The Home Office criticised Channel 4 for being 'insensitive and irresponsible' to show it too soon. Alice Jones of the i newspaper was also critical of the brief postponement, claiming that it was put off "only by seven days, because we’ll all be able to see the fun side of trafficking by then, presumably." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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