Naked Jungle
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Release | 6 June 2000 |
Naked Jungle is a one-off television game show produced for the United Kingdom terrestrial TV station
A video of Naked Jungle was released by Playback in late 2000. It was rated "15" by the British Board of Film Classification.[3]
Format
The programme was made by the same producers as
Reception
Naked Jungle attracted two million viewers, then a record for the channel,[2] and 20% of the audience share in its time slot.[5] Since its debut in 1997, Channel 5 had been aiming to attract 5% of the total audience.[4]
Channel 5 stated that it had received 50 phonecalls relating to the programme, "evenly split" between appreciation and criticism, including a woman who held the programme responsible for curing her
However, the show's full-frontal nudity and display of
Following the special,
In August 2006, a Radio Times poll called it the worst British television programme ever.[7] In a 2007 interview with Digital Spy, Chegwin said of Naked Jungle "It's the worst career move I made in my entire life – if I could turn the clock back, I would!" He said that due to the programme's timeslot of 11 pm on a Tuesday, he believed that it would not have gained as much publicity as it did.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d Airey, Jay (11 June 2000). "Cheggers outrage is just skin-deep". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ a b c "Channel 5 criticised in Commons". BBC News. 13 June 2000.
- ^ "The Naked Jungle [VHS]". Amazon UK. 21 August 2000. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Naked Jungle". UKGameshows.com. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ a b "Naked Chegwin show sparks debate". BBC News. 8 June 2000. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ Raven, Charlotte (13 June 2000). "The opposite of sexy". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ Deans, Jason (21 August 2006). "The 50 worst ever UK TV shows?". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ Levine, Nick (20 November 2007). "TV Interview – Keith Chegwin". Digital Spy. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
External links
- Naked Jungle at IMDb
- Naked Jungle at UKGameshows.com
- Article by contestant Andy Crawford (archived)