The Big Bung – TV programme idea by Gary Hennick

Scientists are offered increasingly large sums of money to ‘emphasis’ parts of their research. We watch the resulting changes in government policy from a hot air balloon filled with ‘experts’.

Questions from a pre-selected audience are shouted up from the ground and an over-paid disc jockey repeats whatever he manages to hear. A team of chimpanzees decide which expert makes least sense. He or she is then forced to write a will leaving everything to a random audience member and made to walk the plank.
If they survive the fall they get to come back the following week.