Water surprise for the Bridge builders GAME WITH A TWIST
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IT looks like Nicholas Ralph – the star of Channel 5’s new adaptation of All Creatures Great And Small – might soon join the list of topless TV hunks such as Aidan Turner and Richard Madden.
He strips off for a dip in the new series based on the books by vet James Herriot, which starts next week.
But he was ordered to tone down his Scottish accent so an American audience could understand him.
Nicholas tells Radio Times: “They watched the audition tapes and said they couldn’t understand what I was saying, so I had to have a wee elocution lesson. James is now a well-spoken Scot so the show can make a transatlantic transfer.”
WE couldn’t have a UK ★
edition of Love Island
this summer due to Covid. But instead we are being treated to the new US series, which is being filmed in a villa in Las Vegas.
Strict health and safety measures are in place for the singletons as they had to quarantine before going on the show and will get regular coronavirus tests.
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Love Island USA has just started in America and we will get all the
A BONKERS but fun reality contest called is launching on Channel 4.
Bosses have put £100,000 cash on an island in the middle of a lake in the British countryside.
And 12 strangers have just 20 days to work together to build a bridge – using whatever materials they can find – across the water to reach the prize. However, there is a twist.
If they reach the money in time, they must vote for who among them most deserves it.
And the winner then faces a dilemma – they can either keep all the cash for themselves or share it with their colleagues.
The five-part show, which will air this autumn, is voiced by Hollywood star James Mcavoy.
It has already been tried out on
The Bridge edward.gleave@dailystar.co.uk
‘‘lockdown love action’’ on ITV2 from September 7. And ex-islander Ovie Soko has a new BBC Three show. ★
Ovie: Life After Reality TV, asks if he should choose showbiz or go back to playing basketball.
French and Spanish TV – and been a big success.
In France last year, the winner Elian Casini shared some of his prize with the others. Commissioning editor at Channel 4 Steve Handley said: “This entertaining and utterly engaging new reality series is bound to start many conversations about just how far we would each go to secure £100,000.”
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THE A Word is getting a spinoff. Ralph And Katie follows the couple (Leon Harrop and Sarah Gordy) in their first year of marriage.
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GAVIN & Stacey’s Rob Brydon and Alison Steadman are reuniting for Sky One’s Roald And Beatrix – based on the true story of Doctor Who star is portraying serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who murdered and dismembered at least 12 young men in the 1970s and 80s.
It starts next month. when six-year-old Roald Dahl met his idol Beatrix Potter.
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Ex-footballer Vinnie Jones and NHS fundraiser Sir Tom Moore will be guests on two new editions of Piers Morgan’s Life Stories.