Description
The Cowboy Trap is an innovative new consumer programme which exposes unscrupulous traders as they work, and wreaks instant justice on them in the form of a Candid Camera style prank.
In a customised house rigged with over 30 hidden cameras, our team of actors pose as homeowners, and invite a range of traders into our home. Under the watchful eye of producers and factual experts, the trader’s behaviour is carefully monitored.
Once the trader is deemed to have acted unreasonably, they discover that our homeowner is not quite what they might have originally seemed, and find themselves embroiled in a carefully scripted comedy prank.
For example, once the trap is triggered, our homeowner tells a salesman that he’s keen to check with his mother before he signs up for the windows. Unfortunately for the salesman, she’s been dead for seven years, and our homeowner needs to channel her spirit.
The trader may have been in control of the rip-off, but suddenly they find the tables are turned – and our vulnerable homeowner is the one with the upper hand. This is the show that exposes the cowboys and wreaks revenge on them – by triggering… The Cowboy Trap.