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5TH DEC 2008
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 STOP TREATING ME LIKE A KID - 8 Teenagers have 6 weeks to prove they can be grown up. Begins on E4 October 24th at 10.30pm - What are teenagers like? What are they capable of? Are we right to demonise them as being irresponsible, feckless hoodlums, or should we give them the independence they demand?
About the show….
Stop Treating Me Like a Kid takes an in-depth look at what it’s like to be a teenager on the verge of adulthood. How will teenagers who struggle with the routine and structure of school cope with the responsibilities of adult life? How will a group of kids who are craving independence cope with the demands of employers, neighbours and each other? How will they choose to run their home? What will they choose to eat and what kind of social group will they create?
This six part series for E4 follows a group of teenagers on a rite of passage – over the course of six weeks, we take eight teenage kids and put them in a house in the middle of the English countryside. Total independence is the order of the day. For the first time in their lives, there are no adults telling them what to do – the only demand placed upon them is that they have to pay their own rent and bills, and buy their own food.
Over the course of the summer, we see them finding local jobs, losing their jobs, and going in search of new ones. We follow them as they come to terms with living in a rural community where they have to take responsibility for their own actions and behaviour. And we look at their relationships with one another.
The series is shot as an observational documentary following the kids’ individual stories and the development of the group as a whole. There are triumphs and disasters over the course of the summer. This is a series which is able to look at a tremendously diverse range of issues that affect our teenagers – we hear Johnny talking to his employer about the knife culture at home in Manchester, we see dizzy blonde Amy having to cope without handouts from her mum, we see Jade talk about how she needs her “attitude” to deal with life in her home city.
There are format elements, as each week a new teenager arrives who has the potential to replace one of the house-mates. After a nomination process, the teenagers vote on whether to retain the original house-mate, or to adopt the guest permanently. As a result, we see a girl who has dominated the house being forced to leave – with explosive results.
Provided by The Student Zone (United Kingdom)
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