A New SAS Training Based Reality TV Show Could Happen

Reality TV shows are generally sh*t. It's usually celebrities you've barely heard of eating ostrich balls or sitting around in a house doing nothing. Boring.

Thankfully, there are producers out there who are going to take reality TV, stick it in the gym and turn it up about fifty notches.

The idea is to get 40 ordinary lads and put them through their paces to see if they can cut it in SAS selection training. For those that don't know, the SAS is Britain's elite fighting force.

There'll be ex-Special Forces soldiers taking the rookies through their paces, described as 'the most psychologically demanding and physically challenging endurance mission of their lives.'

All you need to know is, less than 10% of recruits ever complete the full course.

First comes the 'Pain' part of the training where soldiers will have to survive sleep deprivation and battles against the elements.

Then comes 'Endurance' where soldiers will have to march across rugged terrain with a 40lb rucksack, while every day the distance they have to march is increased and more bricks crammed into their packs. This is so tough, three SAS recruits have died in recent years doing this part of the training.

After that, there is 'Fitness' where soldiers have to finish a four-mile run in 30 minutes and then a two-mile swim in 90 minutes. Failure results in elimination.

If you've got this far, which only 50% of recruits manage at this point, you have to complete 'Survival.' Basically you're dropped in the middle of nowhere with a tin can of survival essentials and told to make it for X amount of time.

If physicality isn't your game, you might excel in the 'Psychological Pressure' tests including a 'Resistance to Interrogation' test.

You could be fitter than anybody there but if you can't endure the 36-hour interrogation marathon the SAS have prepared for you, you may as well give up now. It reportedly includes sleep, food and water deprivation, hooding, time disorientation and prolonged periods of nakedness.

If this show gets commissioned, everyone would start to think very differently about reality TV.