Channel 4 - The Secret Millionaire

Secret Millionaire Reality TV Show Genie in a Brothel I find it highly entertaining that our media seem to dredge up so much dirt about people when there is so much dirt about in our inner cities. This week the Daily telegraph has courageously dodged the golden bullet from the House of Commons pea-shooter as far and now the house is in such disarray, now the Speaker Michael Martin has got his marching orders, and will be leaving on June 21 2009. New order is required as many Millionaires will be looking for peerages as cash-strapped MP's will be tempted to be bought at the right price. Go down ... more

The Secret Millionaire is a Channel 4 programme which has been running on and off for a few years now, with it's first episodes being shown in 2006. It started off based in the UK, but more recently you can watch episodes of Secret Millionaire Ireland, Australia and USA. Each episode is an hour long including adverts. Each episode features a different millionaire who will have to leave their luxurious lifestyle and move to another area, living in very basic accommodation and go undercover to find some less fortunate people to share their wealth with. Often the areas they visit could be areas ... more

The concept of the show is fairly straight forward, a millionaire (a secret one no less) is followed around by a camera crew for a week or so and goes to live in some really impoverished areas of the United Kingdom. He or she will tell people that they are doing a documentary on trying to find work or on volunteer projects or give any number of other excuses so that they can explain the reason for having a camera crew following them 24/7. Whilst working on the episode they will have to live on the equivalent of Jobseekers Allowance and live in sometimes pretty dire accomodation (certainly ... more

This review is on The Secret Millionaire, which is a television programme that is shown periodically on Channel Four. And as the name would suggest, it is all about a millionaire who goes about in secret - but let me explain a little bit more if I may! The two formats that I have seen (although they are in effect the same), are those that have come from either the UK or the USA (as most of the programmes of this kind seem to these days!). Obviously the person who is being filmed is a millionaire, and it shows you how they have made their money. But unlike programmes like Undercover Boss where ... more

There is no doubt this show has lost its element of suprise, this now the sixth season. If a middle-aged woman or man comes into your charity asking to help out with a camera crew in tow a light goes on and the owner of the charity is on the google as soon has the protagnist has gone back to her bedsit for the week. It was clear in the last two series that the charity owners or staff were on to that in most cases and effectively pitching for that money, last night one lady said ' I thought this was just like Secret Millionaire. It makes sense that empathic people like charity workers would ... more