A PAIR of students from Bradford have launched a new online programme inspired by a popular daytime TV show.
Loose Mandem is the brainchild of Kamaar Brown and Solomon Gordon and sees them front a panel show set to broadcast two episodes each week on YouTube.
The show will see a group of teenage boys from Bradford, Leeds and Huddersfield discuss topical news stories from a youthful perspective.
It has been inspired by ITV lunchtime programme Loose Women, which sees a group of celebrity women talk about a range of issues.
Kamaar and Solomon, who both study at Leeds City College, are friends and Dixons Trinity Academy in Bradford, where they also met several of their new venture's guests.
The first batch of Loose Mandem episodes, each 40 minutes long, have been recorded and are set to be posted online. Other panellists joining Kamaar and Solomon on the shows include their friends Jermayne Noel, Joshua Gray and Kyle Taylor.
Topics they are set to discuss on the show include Covid, mental health and music.
Kamaar, 18, who is studying to become a teacher, has not ruled out a future career in TV.
He also hopes the stars of Loose Women get to watch Loose Mandem online and become fans of the male version of their show.
Kamaar said: "We have recorded about six episodes so far and we have been in the process of editing.
"We will upload episodes on two days each week. In the first few episodes we talked about subjects including Covid passports.
"It will be a different take on the news. We won't just be discussing subjects, we will have fun and play a game on each other
"Hopefully we can get a good reception from Loose Women, if they find out about it. We will be talking about a range of topics just like they do on Loose Women.
A permanent male version has not been done before. Loose Women has done male specials
"Most of our panellists are aged between 17 and 20 and most of them are from Bradford.
"Our show is all-inclusive, we will have panellists of all races.
"We have thought of doing this because this format of having four black men or four men from different ethnic backgrounds on a panel has never been done that much on television or YouTube ever, so this will be a first in this industry.
"There is nothing on TV for young people. We now have an opportunity to get on TV and speak our truth.
"It won't all be just men though. Sometimes we will have women guests on it too.
"Hopefully we will get it on TV one day."
Go to looosemandem.co.uk to watch the shows as they are released from this week.
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