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Britain's Channel Four Recruits Rotting Corpse
(Thursday, November 04 03:00 PM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Which is more entertaining: watching paint dry or watching a human body decompose? Thanks to Channel 4, British audiences may soon get to decide for themselves. The tentatively titled documentary "Dust to Dust" will tackle the taboo of rotting human flesh and bring those images into British homes.
According to the Guardian newspaper, producers on the show are currently searching for a terminally ill patient whose family is willing to sign off on letting a national television audience watch him rot. After the patient's death, the body will be placed in a private area of London's Science Museum and a number of cameras and scientists will get to watch the body decompose. In addition to providing potentially disgusting television, the project will also be valuable for British scientists who tend not to do decomposition tests on human bodies. Although such tests can be done in the United States, British scientists tend to use deceased pigs.
"We hope experts can learn more about the processes involved and that the data collected by the project can help forensic pathologists in murder investigations," says Simon Andreae, Channel 4's head of science and education.
The Channel 4 team is no stranger to controversy, having previously introduced television audiences to images of aborted fetuses and to the first public British autopsy in 170 years. "This project represents an urgently required step forward for forensic medical research in this country," says Dr Richard Shepherd, a senior forensic pathologist and president of the British Association in Forensic Medicine, leader of the team that will watch the body go to dust. In less disturbing British television news, Channel 4 is also planning a 10-episode series based on Julie Burchill's coming-of-age novel "Sugar Hill." The network promises that the series won't tone down on the book's lesbian sex scenes.
TV News
Britain's Channel Four Recruits Rotting Corpse
(Thursday, November 04 03:00 PM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Which is more entertaining: watching paint dry or watching a human body decompose? Thanks to Channel 4, British audiences may soon get to decide for themselves. The tentatively titled documentary "Dust to Dust" will tackle the taboo of rotting human flesh and bring those images into British homes.
According to the Guardian newspaper, producers on the show are currently searching for a terminally ill patient whose family is willing to sign off on letting a national television audience watch him rot. After the patient's death, the body will be placed in a private area of London's Science Museum and a number of cameras and scientists will get to watch the body decompose. In addition to providing potentially disgusting television, the project will also be valuable for British scientists who tend not to do decomposition tests on human bodies. Although such tests can be done in the United States, British scientists tend to use deceased pigs.
The Channel 4 team is no stranger to controversy, having previously introduced television audiences to images of aborted fetuses and to the first public British autopsy in 170 years. "This project represents an urgently required step forward for forensic medical research in this country," says Dr Richard Shepherd, a senior forensic pathologist and president of the British Association in Forensic Medicine, leader of the team that will watch the body go to dust. In less disturbing British television news, Channel 4 is also planning a 10-episode series based on Julie Burchill's coming-of-age novel "Sugar Hill." The network promises that the series won't tone down on the book's lesbian sex scenes.
