
Horizon: The Restaurant That Burns Off Calories
April, 2020
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Fred Sirieix and GP Zoe Williams open a restaurant with a difference, welcoming 20 unsuspecting diners for a slap-up meal. It all sounds normal enough, but this restaurant has something unexpected back of house – a functioning gym, where a group of fitness fanatics are poised on exercise bikes, treadmills and rowing machines, ready to burn off every single calorie ordered and consumed by the diners. This groundbreaking stunt for science strand Horizon is based on the latest scientific research, which suggests that when we are shown the astonishing amount of exercise required to remove excess calories from our bodies, we choose to eat up to 20% less.
Puddings polished off, the diners are let in on the secret gym. Will the knowledge change their behaviour, as the research suggests, or leave a nasty taste in the mouth?
Channel
BBC TwoExecutive Producer
Amanda Lyon
Sanjay Singhal
Series Producer
Michael Rees
Producer / Director
Dick Sharman
Jules Whomsley
Production Executive
Kate Boundy
Producers
Martha Swales
Sarah-Louise Ball
Melanie Loudonsack
Casting Producer
Melanie Loudonsack
Casting Researcher
Vera Yambasu
Production Manager
Samara Friend
Junior Production Manager
Rachael Namboozo
Production Coordinator
Emily Charalambides
Researcher
Ciara Davies