BBC3 dares Brits to face terrifying tasks

Contestants will have to feed reef sharks

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BBC3 will challenge young Brits to take on the scariest jobs in the world in a new series from the creator of Last Man Standing.

Gary Hunter will produce Chicken, which will follow a group of Britons on a four-month world tour. In one episode they hand feed nine-foot-long reef sharks in the Bahamas. Other challenges under consideration include free diving for pearls, driving cattle over the roughest US terrain and hunting walruses in freezing temperatures with a harpoon.

All the adventures will force the group into contact with nature at its most extreme. They will have to sleep rough and hitch to their next destination as they travel on a shoestring budget.

"They'll have to learn to depend utterly on each other, not only to succeed through their tasks, but to get between locations - singing for their supper, busking rides, and sleeping rough," the BBC said.

Hunter added that Chicken will feel very different from Last Man Standing because the team will have no respite from the adventure. "All the jobs are genuine, modern jobs and it's a genuine start-to-finish journey, not something where they're parachuted in and catapulted out. There is no chance to recuperate."

The 8 x 60-minute series is an in-house BBC production with transmission planned for autumn 2009. It was commissioned by Nick Shearman, in-house commissioning editor for features and formats, and BBC3 controller Danny Cohen.