Back to Reality

I must be seriously sad. I remember watching this at the time back in 2004, and now, recently again, albeit very slowly. The premise of bringing together a large variety of reality tv show stars or stand-outs sounded good, but it was the Big Brother format that reigned supreme as the contestants mingled in this giant detached, studio-made mansion, located inside the studio, and using some fancy technology to determine whether it is night or day. This was at a time when Channel 5, decided to dive into the popular reality TV market, with this and then following that, "The Farm", which ran for 2 series. The show was presented by Tess Daly & Richard ...  Read the complete review

You sort of realise that things are getting out of hand with reality TV when a whole programme is devoted to people who became famous or earn a living by appearing on reality Tv shows and they copete against each other in another reality TV show, talk about scrapping the barrel well that is pretty much what this awful show from Channel Five managed to achieve. In all twelve contestants were left in a mansion for three weeks and in the final week the public got to vote them out two at a time. The twelve contestants were Uri Geller Nick Bateman Lizzy Bardsley Catalina Guirado Sarah Kozer Ricardo Ribeiro Rik Waller ...  Read the complete review