HERE at Twenty Twenty Television, we are currently producing the new series of World’s Strictest Parents for BBC3.

If this is the first time you have heard of the program, the basic premise is that we take outspoken young people (aged 16-17) and place them in a family in a completely different culture to there own for a week. The teenagers from the UK get to see what life is like as a teenager in a different country. Last series was hugely successful with teenagers visiting Alabama, Jamaica, Ghana, India and South Africa. This series we are planning to place the teenagers in families in Botswana, India, Trinidad and America.

The intention is for UK teenagers who perhaps struggle at home or at school, to experience different attitudes to education, respect for elders and individual responsibility towards the family unit in foreign cultures.

The hope is that our teenagers will take on board some insights into structure, discipline and the importance of aspiration and education, which they can then apply to their own lives. We have filmed 2 episodes of the series so far and we are yet to send a teenager from the Hampshire area abroad. We would love to find an outgoing girl or boy from Hampshire to benefit from this experience. This could well be an opportunity for teenagers who are bright but are struggling.

The opportunity to see how others less economically fortunate value education and firm parenting may just be the thing to inspire effort in forthcoming exams, to ease tensions at home, or to teach a bit of personal responsibility.

Applications for teenagers to apply for the show can be found on www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/beonashow/strictest_parents.shtml or by contacting us directly on 020 7284 2020 or by emailing strictestparents@twentytwenty.tv.

Chris Taylor, assistant producer.