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Walking On The Box Tonight

There's a new Channel 4 programme running on consecutive nights this week following eight seriously overweight people as they attempt to change their lives by walking 500 miles.


Posted: 6 November 2006
by Jon

A quick heads-up for a new Channel 4 three-parter starting tonight, Monday November 6, and called 'Too Big To Walk?'

It's a reality documentary covering the attempt by eight seriously obese people - four men and four women - to lose weight and get fit by trekking 500 miles from the south coast of England to Edinburgh.

There's a Channel 4 microsite devoted to the programme at www.channel4.com with an emphasis on health and obesity, but also with short profiles of the walkers themselves and a strange voting page where you can select the walker who you think will be 'the most successful walker'.

Rather annoyingly the microsite doesn't give start times for the programme, but we can reveal that the first one-hour programme starts at 21:00 and is on Channel 4 with the next installments at the same time on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

Looks like interesting viewing.


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This could be interesting. I wonder what will be in the adverts 'cos when it was trailed last week, it was accompanied by an advert for McDonalds.

I think it's three hour-long programs, back-to-back on Mon, Tue, Wed.

On the trailer, one of the participants was throwing her toys out of the pram "Normal people just don't do this!".

Posted: 05/11/2006 at 20:40

Aye, I caught a trailer for it too, Ian, looks fun.

Posted: 05/11/2006 at 21:21

Shall be watching this , but no doubt I shall get wound up .
Have known for a number of years now that according to the much vaunted body mass index ,that I am clinically obese (having a score of 32)whilst some who know me may call me a fat B*****D ,they would be hard pushed to call me obese.
How many other OMers are stricken with being overwieght or are you all racing whippets?

Posted: 05/11/2006 at 21:45

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