Snoop Dogs: New Channel 4 show will see dogs with cameras give tours of celebrities’ houses
Programme was announced at the Edinburgh Television Festival
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Your support makes all the difference.Channel 4 has announced a new show that will see cameras strapped to dogs so as to provide viewers with virtual tours of celebrities’ houses.
Viewers of Snoop Dogs will have to guess whom the homes in question belong to, based on the footage from the dogs’ cameras.
The programme was announced today (29 April) at the Edinburgh Television Festival.
“Channel 4’s [Director of Programmes] Ian Katz has announced a show called Snoop Dogs where you get a tour around a celebrity’s home and have to guess who it is,” The Guardian’s Jim Waterson wrote on Twitter.
“The twist is that producers can’t get access to the homes due to social distancing, so they’re strapping the cameras to the celebrity’s pets.”
Television news site Broadcast also reported the announcement.
While a launch date for the show is not yet known, the premise is seemingly a result of coronavirus social distancing measures as Waterson suggested. The programme could therefore air in the coming months while social distancing continues to be observed amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The title of the show stems from the name of American rapper Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.
Meanwhile, explorer and author Levison Wood announced his new show Walking With Elephants will air on Channel 4 at 9pm on 10 May.
In other news for the channel, Steph McGovern announced that she is halting her home-made show in order to give her family their home back.
The journalist and presenter, who has a six-month-old daughter, was originally due to host The Steph Show, a new lunchtime programme, from a studio in Leeds. However, she has been going live from her family living room in Harrogate for the past month because of the coronavirus lockdown.
“As much as I’ve loved doing a lockdown show at home I never expected it to go on this long,” she tweeted. “We’ve decided it’s time to have a break and give my family our home back.”
One of Channel 4’s newest shows, Paul Hollywood Eats Japan, was branded “racist”, “cringeworthy” and “xenophobic” by disappointed viewers this week.
The programme, which broadcast last night (28 April), saw Great British Bake Off judge Hollywood venture to Japan to indulge in local delicacies, and express a number of unusual preconceived notions about the country’s food culture.
In the show, Hollywood expressed surprise that the Japanese eat bread, despite once previously turning down an offer to be a baker’s apprentice in the country, and was seen giving a world-famous, Michelin-starred ramen chef a Pot Noodle.
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