Eight overweight Britons will soon be making their way to the Kalahari desert where they will live as Bushmen for a month, living exactly as the Bushmen do and eating only what they can forage.
The show - which has the working title Man's First Diet - is being made by Cheetah Television, a division of Endemol UK.
The idea is for the contestants to lose weight while living a traditional Khoisan lifestyle, eating only what they can pick, dig up, trap or kill, reports The Guardian Unlimited.
The men will have to hunt for food whilst the women will stay at home, picking in the dust for roots and tubers. They will have to learn how to make the foods they find edible.
All contestants will have to live by the strict social rules of the Bushmen, hence the hunting/gathering rules.
"Eating a porcupine you've snared, skinned and cooked on an open fire under the desert skies will be a life-changing experience, regaining the essential evolutionary link between food and effort," said Cheetah Television creative director, Sara Ramsden.
Man's First Diet will be broadcast in four hour-long formatted documentaries on BBC3.
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