Mail Online TV: what would it be like?

The startling reality format, dreamed up for Charlie Brooker’s rage-fuelled spoof tv listings site TvGoHome, asked the terrifying question: what would happen to an isolated group fed only on a diet of the Daily Mail? The answer: public hangings for masturbation, among other things. The TV spin-off also featured a man who started behaving like Fred Basset, until his impersonation of the wry cartoon dog is punished with a brutal stoning on the beach.

Some producers in the US don’t think so, and have approached the online organ with the idea of turning it into a celebrity focused magazine show, according to the Wall Street Journal.