From Saturday November 20

See what children really get up to when they're left alone.Scary stuff.

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20th November, 2010

Could the exploitation of children be the next frontier in reality television? Boys and Girls Alone (TV1, Thursday, 9.35pm) is the modern equivalent of sending kids up a chimney, taking advantage of child employment laws in the UK that date back to 1933. It follows cancelled American show Kid Nation and another slightly more seemly British series, Leave Us Kids Alone, which is screening on Prime. Boys and Girls Alone was dubbed Kid Brother by the British press, but is more like Lord of the Flies. It puts two groups of kids aged between eight ...

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