This has just popped up on ITV’s contestant callouts, The Neighbourhood, evidently with Graham Norton (unless this particular neighbourhood just has a giant cardboard cutout of Graham Norton in it).
In The Neighbourhood, it’s not about keeping up with the Joneses – it’s about beating them!
Unlike anything you’ve seen before, households from all walks of life will move in side by side. They’ll live as neighbours but compete as rivals. Whether facing off in street-sized games or gossiping over the garden fence, in the ultimate reality showdown.
ITV are looking for dynamic families and housemates to take part in this new ground breaking programme where one household will win a life changing cash prize!
Sounds a little bit like The Button Survivor meets Neighbours. Doesn’t feel like a very Graham Norton thing, although evidently he’s branching out a bit more these days. We’ll see.
I’m quite intrigued by the production of it as a prospect, are they going to have to buy up an entire street Brookside Close style? Feels like a big prospect for what is apparently 12 episodes.
I can see the logic in getting Graham in as he’ll bring people to the show and he’s not yet one of the usual ITV faces that suggests same old, same old. He’s also got fans outside the UK which may help to sell the show abroad before countries try to make their own versions – or use the UK set. A cul-de-sac would look better visually than a row of houses or a block of flats.