BBC3 holds out bionic arm doc

Bodyhack: Metal Gear Man

BBC3 in the UK has ordered a two-part shortform doc about a man seriously injured in a train accident who receives a bionic arm made by a video game company.

Bodyhack: Metal Gear Man centres on 25-year-old James Young, who lost an arm and a leg in the accident, and follows what happened when he received a bionic arm from Konami modelled on a character from video game Metal Gear Solid.

The show is from BBC Studios Production and will be launched on BBC3, the pubcaster’s online-only channel, on an as-yet unspecified date.

Will Saunders, creative director of Digital BBC TV Production, said: “We don’t have to adhere to durations or TV schedules for some of our storytelling on BBC3 now. We really hope the audiences who mass around gaming content online will share as well as watch James’s amazing story.”