NEW DELHI: CNN-IBN is launching a show Summer Showdown in a reality show format.

Encouraging citizen journalism, the show will follow a family each from the five metros - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata - for five-weeks. They will be asked to report on all the civic problems that they feel are threatening to become a crisis this summer - from continuous power cuts, overflowing sewers to the dismal state of our roads.

In addition, these citizen journalists will be provided opportunities to meet and interact with the local civic authorities to find solutions to these real and unrelenting problems and work towards realising them.

The two-three minute daily basis stories of their personal experience will be carried on CNN-IBN's Newswheel. The initiative will culminate in a one-hour special on 26 May that will track the previous week's progress to see which city's civic authorities were the most efficient in responding to their citizen's appeals.