Friday-Sun 9pm and then Thurs-Sat 9pm (I think),
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It feels like ITV are really pushing this, six families (or various) move into a street and will compete in challenges and politically strategize to eliminate everybody else (although it sounds like others will move into the street as the 12-episode run progresses). The winning household gets £250,000. Graham Norton, who you’d assume can choose his own projects these days, plays host.
On paper it’s Survivor meets Brookside meets Gogglebox, big emphasis on domestic life and neighbourhood gossiping and relationships – seeing what tone this strikes ought to be quite interesting – the adverts suggest it will going for a comedy, middle class surburban curtain-twitching neighbourhood-watch sort of feel. In my head challenges are things like bowling with garden gnomes but I would hope they’re a bit more interestingly pitched than that.
Really hard to see this as a weekend sort of show that they appear to be putting it out as (although I suppose Gogglebox doesn’t shout Friday night on paper), and also not the first time the idea has been tried, a US show called There Goes The Neighborhood where CBS built a 20 ft wall around a block of houses and had the households compete against each other for a $250k prize was a one-series wonder in 2009 and the fact nobody talks about it is possibly telling.
We’ll see though. Let us know what you think in the comments.
