And with thanks to Lewis Murphy for hinting at the absolute correct title for today’s post.
As threatened, Prickly Heat hosted by Julian Clary and pre-Big Brother Davina McCall sent 32 up-for-it boys and babes to Magaluf. By day they played It’s a Knockout style games on the beach, the home nations at beach war with each other. By night they get up to the sort of things you apparently get up to in Magaluf. Good clean fun then, and Sky One got four years out of it (with Denise Van Outen replacing McCall for the final series).
Look out for pre-fame Alex Jones off of The One Show here, as well as ex-Challenge TV link man Kieron Elliot.
In other news, Bother’s Bar fave De Slimste Mens starts a new run on Dutch TV from Monday after a very successful run last year. A UK version still does not exist.
If you have been following Aussie Mole (as we have) or even indeed if you haven’t, you might have seen links to The Fabric of Reality TV, a blog about reality TV challenge design. David the guy who runs it is after feedback regarding his excellent guides (so far exhaustive guides to The Mole, Survivor and The Crystal Maze) so why not take a look?
DOND’s latest theme week starting on 29th: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a499217/deal-or-no-deal-for-summer-festival-special-dealfest.html
Looks like the usual game play gimmicks. Also I think that week might have the last weekend show as I understand they’ve been cut.
I was told the final Sunday show will be shown on 11th August.
Although I do credit for the work they put in for these specials. I have been put off them since they made the 5-box holiday/bonus game skill based.
“and even a queue for the toilets!”
Glenn Hugill and Richard Hague building the foundations of Avanti un Altro! there.
TAR Canada was interesting, but the whole race will be in Canada, so it’s appeal is a bit limited (though for Canada shows, the prize is pretty good- $250,000 cash, 10 pairs of first class plane tickets, and 2 Corvettes worth $50,000 each- and no taxes on that, so the total the winning team gets is comparable to what the TAR US winners get after taxes)-
I’m wondering why Channel 4 or Channel 5 have never decided to do a UK version- it’d probably be perfect for them.
I’ve never thought the Amazing Race editing style would suit UK television very well, for some reason.
Probably just the cost of production. The US version is a proven success, and they still need to cram it full of sponsors to cover the running costs.