Netflix creates new version of massive ITV hit show with all the same features and a string of challenges
NETFLIX is storming along with the production of Banned Camp – a new reality show with distinct hints of I’m A Celebrity.
Like the annual ITV giant, currently thrilling viewers every night from Australia, the latest offering is set in a camp and involves competitors undertaking a string of challenges.
It will also feature a long line of stars.
But unlike I’m A Celebrity, the famous faces will not be competing, just dropping in to set the tasks for those taking part, which result in them being voted off one by one.
A TV insider revealed: “It is not difficult to see where the inspiration for this new Netflix show has come from.
“It’s clearly trying to tap into the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere of a camp, combined with a sprinkling of stardust along the way.
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“But the streaming giant clearly has a lot of faith in the concept because they snatched it from the BBC who were also looking at developing the show before Netflix agreed a lucrative deal to bag it.”
Filming has now begun and Banned Camp is likely to drop on Netflix early next year, although it is still not clear who will be the big-name host fronting it.
Whereas I’m A Celebrity tends to set tasks testing competitors’ ability to eat vile food or complete nerve-wracking challenges, the new show from the streaming service will be much less gruelling.
But it is still a huge challenge because they will be given a list of banned things that they cannot say or do.
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And every time they fail, some money is lost from the prize pot.
In that respect it also resembles Netflix’s other reality TV hit, Too Hot to Handle, where lads and girls are thrust together like ITV2’s Love Island, but end up losing money if they are unable to keep their hands off each other.
The similarities are not a complete coincidence as both shows are made for Netflix by top production company Thames.
A spokeswoman for Netflix declined to comment.
I wonder when TV executives will come up with original ideas for shows again?
THREE stand-up specials will be available exclusively next month on Sky Comedy.
They are James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 on December 12, as well as Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?! and Alan Carr: Regional Trinket. Exact dates are yet to be confirmed for the last two.
SLEEPER ALARM IS ALL SET
HERE is an exclusive first look at the action from new six-part drama Nightsleeper, which is due to air on BBC One early next year.
I revealed last year that the Beeb was making the thriller, which is set on an overnight train that is heading for disaster as it hurtles from Glasgow to London.
Since then the lead actors have been revealed as Joie Cole, best known for starring in Peaky Blinders and Gangs Of London, and Alexandra Roach, of Black Mirror, Inside No 9 and Killing Eve fame.
Joe plays an off-duty cop on board the train who was hoping for a easy ride into the capital.
Meanwhile, Alexandra is an agent at the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre who is trying to bring the endangered train to a halt.
She should have just roped in the RMT – they are experts at stopping trains.
A JUMBO SOB WITH SIR DAVID
GET your tissues ready for the latest episode of Planet Earth III.
I can reveal Sunday’s instalment features the tear-jerking story of a family of elephants struggling to stay alive in Kenya, as food becomes scarce.
In the episode, called Extremes, Sir David Attenborough describes how the youngest member of the herd is suffering.
Smaller than his relatives, the male calf is not properly nourished because his mother cannot eat enough to produce the required milk.
The wildlife expert explains overgrazing and extreme weather are responsible for sapping their food sources.
As the calf becomes weaker, the family leave him behind to go in search of sustenance, meaning he is entirely in the hands of fate.
It is certainly not light entertainment – but is essential viewing.
NAGA MUNCHETTY will guest host the ninth episode of the current series of Have I Got News For You on BBC One, due to be screened on December 8.
The BBC Breakfast and Radio 5 Live presenter is being joined by guest panellists Richard Osman and comedian Maisie Adam.
JOEL’S ON DOUBLE DUTIES
JOEL DOMMETT is now on so many TV shows and channels that he had to go head to head with himself.
From 7.30pm on Sunday he was fronting The Masked Singer’s I’m A Celebrity special as his usual, jovial self on ITV1.
Then at 8pm, Joel was hosting BBC One reality show Survivor, seeing him adopting a more sober and sexy demeanour on the beaches of a tropical retreat.
With an average 2.8million watching The Masked Singer, to Survivor’s 1.8million, the latter was narrowly the loser.
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It goes to show the Great British public prefer Joel hamming it up with his cheesy puns, to him trying to be serious in the sand.
I’m sure that’s a relief to him.