Ten to run local version of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here in 2015
Network Ten has signed on for a local version of a popular reality TV show which sees personalities, sports people and reality TV stars put into a hostile environment and made to complete a series of challenges to earn food.
I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here is being produced for the network by ITV Studios. Whilst international versions of the show are filmed in the Australian rainforest, however the local version will be filmed in Africa.
Ten has been looking for a blockbuster reality show to help bolster its ailing ratings, with recent attempts such as So You Think You Can Dance underwhelming. A version of the show has been running in the UK since 2001, whilst there is also a long running franchise in Germany and the Netherlands.
Ten’s chief programming officer, Beverley McGarvey, said: “I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here is a big, noisy and spectacular show for all the family and an incredible live reality television event. It will be a massive production, set in an amazing location in Africa. We cannot wait to get our celebrities in the jungle.
“I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! is a smash hit in the UK, where its most recent season launched with 13.5 million viewers, making it the UK’s most watched entertainment show.”
The show was created for ITV in the UK and is now distributed internationally by ITV Studios. It is famous for its ‘bush tucker trials’, where contestants are asked to perform risky and gross-out stunts in order to win food tokens.
ITV Studios Australia managing director, Anita Jacoby, said: “Network Ten is backing an international success story with I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here.
“After 13 huge seasons in the UK and eight massive seasons in Germany – and with both countries now gearing up for their next series – I’m a Celebrity is one of the longest-running, biggest and most successful formats in the world.”
No hosts or contestants have yet been announced, with the series to go to air in 2015.
Former Happy Monday’s front man Shaun Ryder takes on a bush tucker challenge:
Probably a good time to sell any remaining shares in Ten.
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Oh Lord
Do they actually want to survive ??
This is almost as ugly as watching Michael Jackson’s demise
Tell me any other version of this show world wide that actually has any credit or success
Family Feud…
Shark Tank…
now this…
Perhaps ‘Its a Knockout’ next ?
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A far more profitable strategy would be to turn Channel Ten into a 24hr Simpsons channel for the foreseeable future.
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yet we all tune into the train wreck we call Australian TV….big brother – the voice – X Factor – The Block. This is just another reality show which sad to say celebrities stuck in a jungle will probably get an audience.
Ch10 tried drama, they get slammed, they try reality…they get slammed, they bring family feud back….they get slammed BUT The Feud is doing quite well you could argue
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Now, unlike the above ‘experts’ I think this could work.
Key will be casting……but if they get the right self promoting, numb-skull celebrity bone heads, it could very well capture an audience bigger than ‘Being Lara Bingle’.
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Wow, what a total waste. Australia has some of the best photogenic, wilderness country in the world, and instead its going to be filmed in Africa? Network Ten really have lost the plot.
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Ebola anybody?
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As the set sits there in QLD and is readily available, this isn’t such a bad idea. …Oh, except they’re not doing that, they’re flying everything to fucking Africa!
I’d have preferred it on Ch9 with Hamish and Andy rather than Fitzy and Wippa on Ch10. Feels like a discount version. It will come down to casting though but I bet there are some B-list suckers chomping at the bit (that may or may not be on Ch10s books).
The UK version is an unquestionable success though with great presenters in Ant and Dec the original and long running key to that success.
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Actually I wish they would bring back Its a Knockout. It used to rate a 35!
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