Castaway 2007 (TV)

Description: The weather started getting rough, the TV crew was tossed...if it wasn't for a faithful show the entertainment would be ... more

Castaway 2007 (TV) ... lost.

Newest Review: ... raining down on the veggie patch. I would even ring the dodgy premium phone line to vote them all to stay. The BBC-with your money- has sent that 120 strong team out there to produce the show, most living in a small media village just one mile away from the camp huts, which begs the question why New Zealand and why isn’t the place secluded? What is the point of this show guys? It the same as ... more

... Channel Fours ‘Shipwrecked’, but without the students and bikini bodies. I quite like Jeremy Clarkson’s description of it as the ‘poor mans Celebrity Love Island’. Although the first episode did 7.1 million the next did less than three million. I b...more

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Castaway 2007 (TV): Anyone for a curry? (987 words)
by - written on 02/04/07 (Very useful, 253 readings)
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Castaway 2000, so the BBC claim, was the original reality TV program, a group of volunteers tucked away on a brutal and isolated Scottish Island for a year to see how they would cope as a frugal community. It was engaging television to a point and the people did seem to suffer enough to justify the budget, a refreshing amount of contestants not looking to make a name for themselves on national TV. Yes the foppish Ben Fogle did make a career out of it, although he was reasonably connected in the media before he went in and was probably going to be someone, anyway. We haven’t heard of the rest of them since, some still living there, I believe. And that’s the way it should ... Read the complete review

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