THE LYING GAME

YOU WON’T BELIEVE THIS

IN a post-truth, fake news world, TV bosses bring us the latest spot-the-imposter game.

Four people relay an extraordinary story, but only one of them is telling the truth.

Then an elite squad of professional police interrogators cross-examines the suspects in a confession cell.

It’s all tension and two-way mirrors as they use real tactics deployed on criminals in the pressure-cooker environment.

They are aided and abetted by host Ellie Taylor, who mainly spends her time gasping at every declaration.

Channel 4, 10pm

Ellie is sitting with a player, who watches the grilling and must distinguish the truth tellers from the big fat fakers. If the player picks the fibber, they win £5,000. If they are wrong, the blagger takes the cash.

The stories are pretty outlandish. “I faced down a bear to protect my friends”. “My house got swallowed up by a sinkhole”. “I lived as an alpine goat”.

As the first four people tell a tale of how they opted out of