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| Author: | JimD [ 01 Mar 07, 23:21 ] |
| Post subject: | CASTAWAY....... 2007 |
Join Danny Wallace on Friday March 9 on BBC One for the ultimate social experiment. Castaway returns to your screen seven years on with the same intention - take a group of Brits as far away from their current lives as possible and see if they can survive. Witness how a bunch of strangers come together to form a community; watch them discover what's important to them, and see how they survive the elements – and each other. You can chart the progress of the participants of Castaway 2007 for three months as we bring you the latest updates from the remote location in New Zealand. Castaway launches on BBC One on Friday March 9 at 9pm, and BBC Three at 10pm. You can watch it weekly on Sundays on BBC One and BBC Three from March 11. BBC |
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| Author: | Madeline [ 03 Mar 07, 15:18 ] |
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Spliff wrecked: Cops raid isle Sun |
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| Author: | JimD [ 04 Mar 07, 14:15 ] |
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Meet the new castaways After seven years in the TV wilderness, Castaway returns to our screens this week. And, unlike Big Brother, the approach this time will be grown-up and hands-off. Liz Hoggard reports from Harataonga Bay, New Zealand It takes a village to make a reality TV programme. Or at least a film crew of 150 driven people. I'm on the set of the BBC's latest docusoap, a new series of the hit show Castaway, which is being filmed on a remote island off New Zealand. The tension is palpable. Tomorrow is D-Day - when 13 blindfolded participants will arrive on the island to begin a social experiment last attempted in 2000 on a small island off Scotland. This time it will be different. Observer |
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| Author: | Madeline [ 07 Mar 07, 14:32 ] |
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CASTAWAY: THE CONTESTANTS UNLUCKY 13 HEAD FOR CONFLICT ON LATEST DESERT ISLAND SHOW 07/03/2007 SPARKS are likely to fly in the new series of Castaway. It includes an ex-drug addict, a lap dancer, a deaf housewife, an obese sci-fi nut a Tory and an outspoken loner who claims everyone dislikes him within minutes. The 13 contestants will spend 12 weeks on Great Barrier Island off New Zealand in huts they build themselves and finding their own food. They The series, hosted by Danny Wallace, starts on BBC1 on Friday. BBC1 controller Peter Fincham said: "It will be full of twists and turns." Here we give the line-up: 1 THE ADDICT Jason Ross, 37, of Dover. OCCUPATION: Unemployed. HISTORY: Blew £60,000 on drugs and booze but has been clean for two years. HE SAYS: I died three times in intensive care. But I've been given my life back. 2 THE ARROGANT TORY Clare Hilley, 22, of Purley, Surrey. OCCUPATION: Trainee pilot. HISTORY: Finds it hard to be diplomatic. Hates the "uneducated and narrowminded". SHE SAYS: Margaret Thatcher was an incredible leader. She is one of my heroes. 3 THE FLIRT Hassan Kobeissi, 24, of Newmarket, Suffolk. OCCUPATION: Labourer. HISTORY: Non-practising Muslim loves flirting but is a mummy's boy. HE SAYS: I'll have the time of my life. 4 THE TOUCHY-FEELY ONE: Joe Chicken,33, from Kent. OCCUPATION: Occupational therapist. HISTORY: Regards himself as open, honest and trustworthy. A vegetarian. HE SAYS: If we have to slaughter a pig I'd be devastated. 5 THE LEADER Kenneth Rose, 64, of Maldon, Essex. OCCUPATION: Photographer. HISTORY: Colour Sergeant in the Marines for 22 years, describes himself as a natural leader. He can appear aggressive. HE SAYS: A man must have a knife to have a life. I know the basics of staying alive. 6 THE PARTY GIRL Lucinda King, 27, of East Dulwich. OCCUPATION: Event project manager. HISTORY: Says she is flirtatious and lacks confidence. Hates to miss sleep or food. SHE SAYS: People see me in an "I'd like to spend a night with Lucinda" way. I've had lots of failed relationships. 7 THE LONER Jonathan Shearer, 41, of Benbecula in the Western Isles of Scotland. OCCUPATION: RSPB education officer. HISTORY: Hates "touchy-feely idiots". The self-confessed loner considered being a monk but they "didn't want me". HE SAYS: In a room with 10 people, eight will dislike me in five minutes. 8 THE MOTHER FIGURE Wendie Mitchell, 42, of Stoke. Newington, North London. OCCUPATION: Full time carer to her mum. HISTORY: Former skinhead loves to go raving but she is scared of the dark. SHE SAYS: It's nice to have "me" time. I never have time. Ever. 9 THE MOANER Gemma Zinyama, 22, of Buckhurst Hill, Essex. OCCUPATION: Sales executive. HISTORY: Hates lazy people. Loves to spend her money on hair extensions and her nails. SHE SAYS: I have no respect for social scroungers, I don't like stuck-up people and I have never mixed with gays or lesbians. 10 THE COUCH POTATO Al Cooling, 24, of Seacroft, Leeds. OCCUPATION: Unemployed writer. HISTORY: Loner - lists his TV, hi-fi and computer as his friends. HE SAYS: It would scare you if you were in here (taps head). It scares me sometimes. 11 THE GO-GETTER Francie Smee, 56, of Oxford. OCCUPATION: Administrator. HISTORY: Skills include hunting and trapping. Divorced mum of three is deaf. SHE SAYS: I'm noisy, bossy and up for anything. I have more male traits than female. 12 THE TOFF Alasdair Humberston, 19, of Harringworth, Northamptonshire. OCCUPATION: Gap year student. HISTORY: Dyslexic ex-public schoolboy's ambition is to become a venture capitalist and earn millions. Still lives at home. HE SAYS: I am the most heterosexual man in Britain. I am the self-deprecating king of the ladies. 13 THE LAP-DANCER Erica Hurst, 22, of Kearsley, near Bolton, Greater Manchester. OCCUPATION: Lap dancer. HISTORY: Has a phobia of spiders. Married this month just four months after meeting her husband. SHE SAYS: I can't stand judgmental people. If they judge me, I'll judge them right back. Mirror |
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| Author: | Madeline [ 07 Mar 07, 16:31 ] |
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NEW CASTAWAY - WILL THEY SURVIVE? Mirror |
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| Author: | Madeline [ 07 Mar 07, 16:55 ] |
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Seeing strange symbols on BBC ONE? You are not going mad. For this series of Castaway you can have the power to influence the lives of the castaways. But you need to earn it. You need to read the signs. BBC |
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| Author: | Madeline [ 09 Mar 07, 10:41 ] |
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Big Brother gets Lost Mirror |
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| Author: | Madeline [ 09 Mar 07, 10:46 ] |
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Down the isle March 09, 2007 Sun |
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| Author: | JimD [ 09 Mar 07, 15:48 ] |
| Post subject: | CASTAWAY: PICK OF THE DAY BBC1, 9PM |
09/03/2007 THE year 2000 was quite a milestone for TV. It gave us the first US series of Survivor and, in the UK, Big Brother and Castaway were both launched offering different takes on the same social experiment. Coincidentally, it was also the year that saw Tom Hanks marooned on a desert island with just his volleyball for company. So you might be interested to know that, after the success of Hanks' movie Cast Away, the head of ABC pitched the idea of a TV series based on the movie. And his brainwave evolved into Lost... So seven years on, it'll be interesting to see how the 13 volunteers stranded on New Zealand's Great Barrier Island behave now that they know what's expected of reality show contestants - and the potential media careers. Who will become the next Ben Fogle or Jade Goody? There'll be no bushtucker trial or evictions, and they're a more diverse bunch age-wise than your typical Big Brother housemates. There's the obligatory lap dancer, of course, but the oldest is a 64-year-old ex-Marine and four of the castaways are over 40. Mirror |
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| Author: | JimD [ 09 Mar 07, 16:19 ] |
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One of the BBC's castaways has warned he will be "ruffling feathers" among the 12 other people taking part in the reality show. The programme returns after a break of seven years and is being shot on Great Barrier Island in New Zealand. 
Jonathan Shearer, from Benbecula, in the Western Isles, said he had a dislike for the "touchy-feely idiots" he suspected would be involved. The programme will begin on Friday at 2100 GMT on BBC One. BBC |
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| Author: | JimD [ 09 Mar 07, 19:25 ] |
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Down the isle A GROOM has been left home alone just four weeks after his wedding — because his former lapdancer wife has jetted off for three months on TV’s Castaway. Tonight viewers will see Erica Hurst arrive on Great Barrier Island, near New Zealand, as one of 12 contestants in the new BBC show. But her hubby, burly nightclub security manager Matt Williams, from Bolton, Gtr Manchester, told TV Biz how he has been left pining for her after they cancelled their planned honeymoon to romantic Venice. Erica, 24, was picked for Castaway and packed her bags just 18 days after tying the knot. Matt, 24, has not seen her since. He said: “When she is on an exotic paradise island watching the sun setting, I’ll be working on the door of a nightclub in Lancaster! SUN |
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| Author: | Madeline [ 09 Mar 07, 23:43 ] |
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Someone please get over there and shut Jonathan Shearer UP!! Hello Hassan  
Claire - thank God she is Tory. Wendie - Normal So far I like most of them and only wish the show was on 24/7 
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| Author: | JimD [ 10 Mar 07, 23:31 ] |
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Air force drops in on TV reality drop-outs A multimillion-dollar BBC production being filmed on Great Barrier Island is hitching a free ride with the New Zealand Air Force. On Friday an Air Force Orion flew over the set of the three-month reality show Castaway, dropping by parachute a crate of cargo, designed to make the location appear more remote than a 15-minute drive to the nearest airfield and not much farther to the closest pub. Air Force spokesman Squadron Leader Glenn Davis said the show's production company asked it several months ago to make the drop -but was initially declined. However, after a training exercise was scheduled in the area, the Air Force agreed to allow the Orion to detour over the show's location at Harataonga Bay on its way back to base. "We did it for free, but it was not a cost (to the taxpayer)," Davis said. He said he did not know what was delivered to the set. Great Barrier Island's accommodation has been almost fully booked by the show's 120 crew, and some locals claimed the cannabis supply had run dry since they arrived. The first episode of the show, in which 13 British men and women spend three months "in a remote place, cut off from the world and forced to fend for themselves", screened in the UK yesterday. The show's website says in episode one the first castaways swim ashore and land on the island. "They brave the toilet, discover their one and only match, and call a meeting to discuss how life on the island should be run. Two days later they are presented with a surprise - a new group coming to join them and the desperate realisation that they do not have enough supplies." Presumably before the Royal New Zealand Air Force came to the rescue. Sunday Star Times Sunday, 11 March 2007 |
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| Author: | Madeline [ 11 Mar 07, 15:53 ] |
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11 March 2007 COMIC Russell Brand left a stunning star of TV's Shipwrecked on the crest of a wave with his hilarious sex antics. People |
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| Author: | Madeline [ 11 Mar 07, 15:55 ] |
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Secret photos Erica tried to castaway NOTW |
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