Open your door to reality TV

The makers of House Sitters - the latest of Britain's increasingly extreme reality television shows - want to put strangers in your home for a week and film them trying to be you.

And as if watching three hormonally challenged Brits making fools of themselves isn't pleasure enough, the TV company will also put you up in a nice hotel and pay you $6,000 for your trouble.

The Sky TV show - described as Big Brother on the move - will spend a week in Hong Kong in September. And producers are still looking for a local home to take over. 'We want to show Hong Kong as a modern, hi-tech, 24-hour place,' said series producer Jenny Midl. 'So we are looking for an apartment block home in Mid-Levels, SoHo or Sheung Wan. The homeowners do not have to be a family - a group of young city workers would be just as good. Our only request is that at least one of the house members speaks English.'

The residents of the apartment chosen by the producers will also be expected to appear in the show. They will be asked to talk about their lives on camera and set the house sitters 'typical Hong Kong tasks' to perform. 'This might involve some hobby, chore or pastime the real residents usually do,' said Midl. Contestants will either stay with the show or be axed depending on how well they perform these tasks. 'It is all about how British people adapt to foreign cultures,' Midl said.

SAR thinks this is a great idea and would like to suggest the following tasks which, while easy for any Hong Konger to perform, would surely bamboozle the average insular and unsophisticated Brit:

? Pay $80 for a pint of Tetley's

? Deal with a triad debt collector