Back to Reality

Back to Reality was a reality television show featuring stars from previous reality television programmes. The show was broadcast on Channel 5 between 16 February 2004 to 1 March 2004 and was advertised by Channel 5 as being "The biggest reality show of all time" however in terms of ratings, it failed to deliver. The 12 contestants spent 3 weeks in a studio built mansion, with no natural sunlight. In the final two weeks, the public voted for their favourite housemate with the two people with the lowest votes every 3/4 nights being put to the housemate vote, where the other contestants has to... vote for who they wanted to leave. The show was presented by Tess Daly and Richard Bacon, the first and only series of the show finished with James Hewitt winning the show ahead of Maureen Rees and Craig Phillips. On 6 April 2011 Channel 5 confirmed that they had bought the rights to show Big Brother after its axing on 10 September 2010 by Channel 4. The first series of Big Brother to air on Channel 5 was Celebrity Big Brother 2011 which launched on 18 August 2011, marking Channel 5's second attempt at reality television. The ratings rarely went over 1.
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