A satirical game show about homelessness in which three homeless people took part in a cruel and humiliating quiz. The rounds were designed to replicate the injustices and tribulations faced by those on the streets. And the top prize on the glittering podium was a house, which none of them won. Come on Down and Out, took three homeless people off the street and made them compete with each other in front of a live studio audience. But it was actually a carefully constructed hoax. The homeless people were actors, and, although the actors and production crew were aware of the deception, the live studio audience and viewers at home were not. Controversial and challenging but, above all, effective in highlighting the issues surrounding homelessness, the Independent “urged you to watch it” while the Sunday Telegraph claimed they had “never been so angry watching television in my life... Only in the last round did I realise we were in Jonathan Swift territory.”