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I've often said "Celebrity killed the reality star" - but ITV are taking the mick!
Along with another series of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here - which was seriously running out of steam in series 4 - plus the return of Hell's Kitchen without Gordon Ramsey, ITV have two more celebrity reality series planned.
The first one is Ant and Dec's Celebrity Golf Cup - scheduled for the August Bank Holiday, with celebrities from Europe and America going head to head in a format mirroring the Ryder Cup. Names mentioned include David Beckham, Robbie Williams, Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas. As if - weren't the likes of Robbie and Kylie supposed to be captains on last Summers Simply the Best - and we ended up with the likes of that Scottish bloke who was in Hollyoaks and EastEnders.
Now heres an idea ITV - if you want to screen some Golf, put your hat into the ring when the Ryder Cup rights come up!
ITV has already confirmed plans for Celebrity Wrestling - with the likes of Jeff Brazier and Kate Lawler competing to become King or Queen of the Ring. The line-up is so bad I can't even remember it!
Now this summer they are planning Celebrity Love Island, in which 10 "young and gorgeous" celebrities are whisked of to a glamourous paradise island to see if romance is in the air. I doubt romance will even come into it - any relationship will be on a similar level to Jordan and Peter Andre - while I'm sure the end game won't be about love - but who the public vote to keep!
Although I'm not a huge fan of dating shows, like Hell's Kitchen (and The Farm!) this format would be alot more appealling with the ordinary folk of Great Britain!
Talking of ordinary folk, I've heard little more about "Press Gang" and "I'm not a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!" lately.
A couple of years ago ITV had the rights to a couple of award winning reality formats - Survivor and The Amazing Race (or The Race as ITV2 called it!), both of which featured members of the general public competing against each other and avoid eliminations to become the champions. But once ITV caught wind of how much money Big Brother's eviction polls were making for C4 and Endemol, formats like this were dropped.
P.S. Though not a reality show, I'm sick of the Millionaire Celebrity special - the next two shows are Valentine Celebrity specials and since the show returned in the Autumn this takes it up to 8 Celebrity specials in less than 20 weeks - meaning just 12 regular editions. If the likes of Paul McCartney are going to sit in the hotseat, make him donate £1m to charity and then try to win money back for himself!
Along with another series of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here - which was seriously running out of steam in series 4 - plus the return of Hell's Kitchen without Gordon Ramsey, ITV have two more celebrity reality series planned.
The first one is Ant and Dec's Celebrity Golf Cup - scheduled for the August Bank Holiday, with celebrities from Europe and America going head to head in a format mirroring the Ryder Cup. Names mentioned include David Beckham, Robbie Williams, Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas. As if - weren't the likes of Robbie and Kylie supposed to be captains on last Summers Simply the Best - and we ended up with the likes of that Scottish bloke who was in Hollyoaks and EastEnders.
Now heres an idea ITV - if you want to screen some Golf, put your hat into the ring when the Ryder Cup rights come up!
ITV has already confirmed plans for Celebrity Wrestling - with the likes of Jeff Brazier and Kate Lawler competing to become King or Queen of the Ring. The line-up is so bad I can't even remember it!
Now this summer they are planning Celebrity Love Island, in which 10 "young and gorgeous" celebrities are whisked of to a glamourous paradise island to see if romance is in the air. I doubt romance will even come into it - any relationship will be on a similar level to Jordan and Peter Andre - while I'm sure the end game won't be about love - but who the public vote to keep!
Although I'm not a huge fan of dating shows, like Hell's Kitchen (and The Farm!) this format would be alot more appealling with the ordinary folk of Great Britain!
Talking of ordinary folk, I've heard little more about "Press Gang" and "I'm not a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!" lately.
A couple of years ago ITV had the rights to a couple of award winning reality formats - Survivor and The Amazing Race (or The Race as ITV2 called it!), both of which featured members of the general public competing against each other and avoid eliminations to become the champions. But once ITV caught wind of how much money Big Brother's eviction polls were making for C4 and Endemol, formats like this were dropped.
P.S. Though not a reality show, I'm sick of the Millionaire Celebrity special - the next two shows are Valentine Celebrity specials and since the show returned in the Autumn this takes it up to 8 Celebrity specials in less than 20 weeks - meaning just 12 regular editions. If the likes of Paul McCartney are going to sit in the hotseat, make him donate £1m to charity and then try to win money back for himself!
