Dead Set is a zombie drama based in the Big Brother house that will soon launch on Channel 4.

The drama is set in a Britain where the dead are returning to life and attacking the living. The people they kill get up and kill – and it’s spreading like wildfire. Curiously, there are a few people left in Britain who aren’t worried about any of this – that’s because they’re the remaining contestants in Big Brother.

Charlie Brooker, writer and executive producer of the show has revealed that various former Big Brother housemates will appear on the show as themselves.

He revealed:

“They’ve not been cast in huge roles, where we expect them to act from beginning to end in each episode. They are cameos. There’s a logical reason for them to be there. We have them all down at Elstree for a special edition of BBLB, and it’s on eviction night, which just happens to be when the zombie apocalypse thing really starts to happen. We wanted people from various different series of Big Brother.

We had a load of old housemates, and they were all exceptionally pleasant, even the ones I’ve been really rude about in print. In fact, I think the rule is, the ruder you’ve been about someone in print, the nicer they turn out to be, and the bigger an arsehole you feel for having been unpleasant about them.

Anyway, we’ve got a great mix – Bubble, Helen, Kinga, Eugene, Makosi, Ziggy and Brian – a real mix of people from various years. Those bits are almost documentary style – we just put them all in a room together and got them to chat while we walked around with our cameras. Then we did some nasty stuff to surprise them, and recorded their reaction.