Would be a Tiger Team vs MacGyver security-hack infiltration-fest-thing.

Geeky 'hax0r', hot chick leaning over his shoulder as he types "execute virus" and "access mainframe" into some superbly powerful command line processor before a brilliant 3D display opens up on his screen.

Maybe they should make it realistic, loads of auditors, paperwork and beaurocracy while everyone covers their arses.

How better to 'edutain' the vast majority of non-it savvy office workers?

Perhaps as a follow-up, they'd consider a docu-drama following Dr. Joshua Obodo as he endeavours to find partners willing to assist in his removal of a very large sum of money from Nigeria..

1. CSI for gratuitous computer animations (my fave is the magic machine which tells them pretty much who done it under 24 hours)

2. House for the investigative / scientific angle, including the rummaging through rubbish, breaking & entering for other handy clues

3. Numbers for a valiant (but ultimately doomed) attempt to make impenetrably technical topics (to the lay-person) glamorous and interesting.

Good luck with that.

Sold! When do you start shooting...?

Seriously, though, reading the blurb, it'd described as a vérité series, i.e. they're real people, not actors. A swift google reveals a Luke McOmie for instance who completed the following: http://www.iatrp.com/indivu2.cfm#M

This raises the uncomfortable possibility that they may be aiming to show REAL geekery...they'll be switching off in droves :P

That's brilliant. You should pitch that idea to a TV production company before someone else does. (Backdates my PC date/time before typing up a rough script).

Atleast that gives me an excuse to get rip roaring drink and attempt a Father Jack impersonation

If I've learnt from TV correctly, when presented with a big "Access Denied" message in red letters across your computer screen attempt one of the following remedies:

Locate and click on the smaller "Security override" button positioned below and to the right of the aforementioned access denied message. The screen will momentarily blur or display static before granting the required access.

Alternatively, if you're not the person sat at the keyboard, lean in and say "Here, let me try" and then promptly smack the side of the monitor. This should work just as effectively.

I've heard that gasping followed by stating "Oh, this is a Unix system" can also help.

ok all.. I can personally say ( being involved in the show) that we took all of your concerns into account. Its not a copy, no ones ever done what we do on tv before...and we have made it so that the farm kids/ and tech geeks alike will dig it.

Check the quick leaked promo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Be-ZzcXVLw

We are all professionals doing this stuff for 10 years + and we are tying to get the public to wake up and start fixing the issues in security that we have.... so we dont have another 300 million ppl with their identity stolen next year.

Firstly a lot of the people watching this are going to be Security Professionals who will be screaming at the TV "Jeez, man, talk about stating the bloody obvious" as someone finds a Post It with a password on the side of someone's monitors and the dramatic voice over says "You should never do this!"

Secondly most of the others are going to be Script Kiddies and wannabe HaX0rs who will be taking notes.

Of course the people who *REALLY* need to get a clue aren't going to be watching this anyway, because "well, it's computers, boring, innit?"

Oh, and where the preview says "These people are not criminals", I'd love to see them explain that the techniques they are using *aren't* criminal given what people have been arrested for...

I can just imagine it....the horror...I remember swordfish.....some crap about cracking a 1024bit encryption and worms and things whilst hale berry bobs up and down in your lap.....I had to buy a new telly after that as I ended up throwing my tea at the screen....I got a visit from the police too who asked me to tone down my language as it was upsetting children in the village.....If it is reality it will have to be an eight hour series watching one bloke tap away at a keyboard over a series of weeks.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Team_(TV_series)

slashdot: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/18/2017223

digg: http://digg.com/television/Tiger_Team_New_TV_show_about_real_hackers_airs_Dec_25

11pm on Christmas day on an obscure channel! How many viewers will it have, 3? I would be prepared to give it a go, but not at that time.

Any news on when/if this is coming to the UK?

Streaming video on TruTV's (formerly Court TV) website:

1 of 4: http://www.trutv.com/video/?id=870&link=truTVshlk

2 of 4: http://www.trutv.com/video/?id=871&link=truTVshlk

3 of 4: http://www.trutv.com/video/?id=872&link=truTVshlk

4 of 4: http://www.trutv.com/video/?id=873&link=truTVshlk