Britain's Fattest Man

Britain's Fattest Man is a television documentary broadcast on Channel 4 and 4HD on 5 January 2011. It focuses on Paul Mason, who weighed 70 stone (784 pounds or 356 kilograms) and was the heaviest man in Great Britain until a gastric bypass operation saved his life. The documentary follows a year in his life as he undergoes a risky operation to enable him to lose weight.

Ratings

The documentary was watched by 2.63 million viewers on its initial broadcast, giving it an 11.3% audience share in its timeslot. A further 334,000 watched the show on the Channel 4+1 catch-up service. It was the most popular show of the day for the channel.[1]

gollark: Maybe I should actually benchmark it.
gollark: It apparently uses "work-stealing" or something, and I think it depends on how complex the operations are.
gollark: I had so many accursed borrow checker issues.
gollark: Ferris is occasionally kind to us, see.
gollark: I just had to do `args.par_iter_mut().try_for_each(|arg| run_reduction(arg, env))?;` to parallelify things.

References
  1. John Plunkett (5 January 2011). "Britain's Fattest Man weighs in with 2.6 million viewers". Guardian Online. Guardian News and Media Ltd. Retrieved 9 January 2011.


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