It was hosted by comedians Paddy McGuinness and Olivia Lee and featured regular guest Karl Daly, played by Tom Bennett.

Although fairly unknown, Humes starred in the reality TV programme Space Cadets, also for Channel 4, where he played one of the Russian pilots.

Nine strangers are locked together in a bunker and told they cannot leave until they unanimously choose to award one of them the grand prize money.

Throughout the course of the game, these were the "punishments" the players received: Unanimous did not attract high ratings and could therefore be considered commercially unsuccessful.

Such a sharp fall in ratings could be largely due to the time-slot change from 9pm to 8pm from episode four onwards, thus forcing the show to compete for viewers with EastEnders on BBC One.