Thanks. The Sun reporting that ITV have bought the rights to Australian format The Summit, which of course is being described as The Traitors meets SAS, because everyone in TV is lazy and not worth your time. It’s had two series in Australia where it has done mediocrely and will be launching in the US in October, in a style that my Discord correspondents suggests is a bit weird, episode 1 starting after and NFL game on September 29th and episode two on October 16th. If there’s one thing I know about endurance events it’s the value of inertia and momentum.
In it, a group of people climb a mountain carrying (according to The Sun) £500,000 between them. If people drop out that share of the money is gone, but variously there are vote outs, and that money is kept and redistributed. Getting to the top means getting a share of the money, but if they don’t get there in time they lose. Edit: I’m being told by people who watched it voted out money isn’t safe either.
Deadline for applications is 20th September, if you fancy it. This link came up quite recently on the Discord, everything except the title matches up to the information, we’re 99% confident it’s for The Summit, but under a different title to throw you off.
We quite like endurance quests so we’ll keep an open mind on this one – we’ve not watched any of the Australian original. Also thanks to ITV for giving us something to talk about in these lean times.
71º nord meets The Fortune Hotel meets Survivor! But for a mountain show like this, £ 500 000 feels a bit steep (that’s my level of humour). I have to admit it sounds very BBC/C4 though, ITV isn’t the natural home for this format.
I would never usually have confidence in ITV to do this but after The Fortune Hotel I’m slightly more hopeful, even if it feels like “flop” written all over it in the way Survivor did this time 2 years ago, when we first heard it was coming back. But then I actually loved Survivor, so… fingers crossed.