Hey! I have a great idea! Let’s get a bunch of reprobates and teach them a load of death-moves! Yeah! Arm them with nunchucks and boa-staffs and hope they behave! What? Bravo has already beaten me to the idea and they’re going to show it on telly?
The factual series, which has the working title Kung Fu Street Fighters, promises a “risky and controversial approach to combating the UK’s rising hoodie culture and antisocial behaviour”.
Jesus Christ.
The show will feature a British Shaolin monk and martial arts master, Matthew Ahmet. He will go about mentoring youngsters from inner-city estates “in a bid to teach them self-control, respect and restraint and help present an alternative life far removed from violence, crime, drugs and underachievement”.
You missed the bit out where you train them to twat people really efficiently.
Taking them to the Far East, Ahmet will teach a group of 12 young men and women martial arts as a way to avoid conflict back home. The show took more than a year to make and was shot in the UK and Hong Kong.
“This commission demonstrates our ongoing commitment to risky, ambitious and eye catching factual content tackling crime and social issues in a uniquely Bravo way,” said the Living TV Group head of commissioning, Mark Sammon.
We’re doomed.
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