Channel 4 from Wednesday 13 September at 9pm
Britain has the fattest, unhealthiest and laziest children in Europe, with an estimated one million to be classified obese by 2010. If nothing is done, experts predict this generation of couch potato kids will die before their parents.
Arsenal football legend Ian Wright wants to prove that things can, and should, be different. His dream is to set up after-school clubs across the UK to specifically target unfit kids. But first he's got to prove it can work with a group of eight overweight 13-year-olds, and he has just six months to get them fit.
In the opening episode, Ian meets the kids and puts them through their paces. But it doesn't take long for the excuses to start. How will one of England's most famous sportsmen cope with a group of teenagers who hate sport and exercise? What will he do when his approach comes under fire from their parents? And will the kids survive when Ian turns up the heat?
