What’s more ‘heartwarming’ than a briefcase full of cash?

There’s nothing more heartwarming than someone giving you a whole heap of no-strings-attached cash and asking you to spend it.

At least that appears to be the thinking of two of our major free-to-air TV networks.

In their upfronts last year, Seven released details of a show called The Day The Cash Came, where a “life-changing briefcase of cash” appears on someone’s doorstep, and then follows “the heartwarming highs and crushing lows as these families’ lives are changed forever.”

Then this morning the Nine Network sent out details of its new show, The Briefcase. Here’s the blurb: