SJ
In the early 2000s or thereabouts, ITV made a
Survivor
-style reality gameshow called called
Press Ganged
set on a tall ship. It seemed like a fairly big-budget affair, and I think it made the news either during or shortly after the filming because the ship involved sank, or became grouded, or something noteworthy. But for some reason, the show was postponed from whichever season's line-up it was supposed to be in, and I think it ended up never being broadcast. Anybody happen to know why, or whether it's ended up being broadcast on ITV47+6 or something?
Are there any similar examples of whole series that have been made then binned? There's this example that I know of, and there are obivous examples of episodes of shows, like most of the series of Shafted and other such axed-mid-season trash, but is there anything else where a whole series was made and then forgotten about?
What's the advantage of doing that rather than putting it on air at some godforsaken hour to boost the original programming ratio? Presumably, it'll depend on how the programme was commissioned, and there might be financial consequences to actually airing the show - but for a big budget affair like this, I'd have thought they'd have sunk a lot of money into it up-front?
Would the prize-money still be given when things like this happen? I'd assume that most gameshows would have a clause in their participant contracts or whatever saying that prizes would only be paid out if broadcast, but for things like this - where contestants have effectively been "working" for the TV production for an extended period of time - would this be different?
Are there any similar examples of whole series that have been made then binned? There's this example that I know of, and there are obivous examples of episodes of shows, like most of the series of Shafted and other such axed-mid-season trash, but is there anything else where a whole series was made and then forgotten about?
What's the advantage of doing that rather than putting it on air at some godforsaken hour to boost the original programming ratio? Presumably, it'll depend on how the programme was commissioned, and there might be financial consequences to actually airing the show - but for a big budget affair like this, I'd have thought they'd have sunk a lot of money into it up-front?
Would the prize-money still be given when things like this happen? I'd assume that most gameshows would have a clause in their participant contracts or whatever saying that prizes would only be paid out if broadcast, but for things like this - where contestants have effectively been "working" for the TV production for an extended period of time - would this be different?