The BBC plan to screen a „Hunger Games“ style game show will make unemployed people and low-paid workers compete in a series of challenges and tasks in competition for a cash prize. Only the UK’s lowest-paid workers and the unemployed will be invited to compete.

At the end of each episode, those who have produced the least will be eliminated and by the end of the process, just one worker will remain. The winner will receive in the region of £15,000 which is estimated to be a year’s living wage, outside of London.

This is the next rung down the ladder in the disturbing trend of voyeuristic „poverty porn“ made popular in programmes like ‚Benefits Street‘.