The series was a hoax at the expense of its contestants, who were told they were being trained as cosmonauts at a Russian military base before undergoing a five-day trip into low Earth orbit. In reality, the entire series was filmed in Dore, and the contestants did not leave Earth.
It was a weird show. All the contestants were nice people who reacted well to their situation, and you could see the presenters and guests getting more and more uncomfortable as the week went on - being less and less sure that it actually was funny rather than mean.
The finale was a little anticlimactic as the contestants seemed to have pretty much worked it out. I wonder if they had a little help in that department.
I ran across a series that used that same idea, only it wasn’t a game show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_(miniseries)
It was a great setup, but ran out of steam in the last episode, I think.
Also one of Michelle Mylett’s first roles before she went on to star in Letterkenny.