There’s a new ITV adventure show casting (I’ll stick my neck out here – likely to be ITV2) promising BIG MONEY for you and four friends if you fancy it (that link won’t work because it’s just a cut and paste poster, but this one should) :
You can click on the poster if you want to make it bigger. Closing date is Friday week. The last time an adventure show was advertised in mysterious circumstances it was Release the Hounds, we don’t believe this to be it unless they’re changing the format to match the new German version. We don’t know what this is but then stepping into the unknown is the basic definition of an adventure isn’t it? So there we are.
Just applied for this, already got a team sorted and ready to go!
I’ll go off the board here- maybe they’re doing a new adult UK version of Fort Boyard? Five players on the team does fit….
I imagine ‘show like no other’ rules that out. You never know though.
Or it’s Release the Hounds. Not unusual for applications to seek bigger teams than will appear on the show (to give casting teams options to work with and to allow standbys, etc.). Eggheads applications ask for six people, for example (or used to, last I checked).
Would they not have a ton of potential teams they can use when casting for the pilot though? It’s only six episodes, it sounds like a lot of effort.
It’s probably easier to have a new trawl than to go through all the old applications asking everyone if they’re available for the new dates.
In addition, they’d have to ask whether they can get another person to join the team.
Also, they might have a better idea of what types of people they want to cast this time around.
And they might not have had a great response from their initial advert.
But if they weren’t applying last time, why bother applying this time to basically the same advert but now in hilarious photoshop form? I can’t believe that in casting the pilot that was the only team that fitted the bill, and it’s not like the premise of Release the Hounds is an unknown, they’re going to have to find out at some point.
It makes no business sense. So it’s probably the case then.
In fact surely they’d get a much better response if they just said ‘look, do you want to come on Release the Hounds? It’ll be a laugh and you might win some money and you’ll get to meet Reggie Yates from ITV2’s Trinity’ now people have watched it?