“It was not: ‘Can we pull it off?’, but, ‘How are we going to pull it off?’” says Petrina Good, Space Cadets’ director of production. I thought it would be a show like Castaway or Shipwrecked, or that it might be something like canoeing up the Amazon Louise DekkerĮndemol – which produced Big Brother – was brought in to help carry out this wild new TV experiment. They set up an old RAF base, 10 miles from Ipswich, to act as a former Soviet space bootcamp, and scaled back the mission from landing on the moon to orbiting the Earth instead. The team decided that, for it to be a plausible expedition, the potential astronauts would have to be sent to Russia, which they also opted to fake (for cost reasons). Growing up, one of my favourite films was Capricorn One, which was about a faked mission to Mars, so I suggested: ‘What if we pretended people were going to the moon?’ We all sort of laughed about it, but over the course of months, we talked about whether it would be possible.” “We were originally joking about what sort of hidden camera stunts you could pull. “We had every confidence that it wouldn’t work,” says Ben Caudell, an executive producer then working at Zeppotron, who first came up with the idea.
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