The Real Gilligans Island

[Lil' Bitch 0]

You've seen the original comedy, now live the misadventure for real! That's right -- The Real Gilligan's Island is on TBS!

 

One of television's most enduring comedies is now one of the most anticipated reality shows of the season. The series is executive-produced by Mike Fleiss (The Bachelor, The Bachelorette). The father/son team of Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of the original Gilligan's Island sitcom, and Lloyd J. Schwartz also serve as executive producers. Lisa Levenson (The Bachelor, The Bachelorette) and Scott Jeffress (The Bachelor, The Bachelorette) serve as co-executive producers for Next Entertainment.

 

THE REAL GILLIGAN'S ISLAND features two complete sets of castaways: two real-life skippers, first mates, millionaire couples, movie stars, farm girls and professors all competing to be the only castaway of his/her kind on the island. Once a series of elimination challenges have whittled the castaways down to one set, they'll work, as the original castaways did in the 1960s sitcom, to get off the island. The show was cast from thousands of people who took part in a nationwide casting call.

 

Many of the challenges that the contestants face are modeled after some of the situations that occurred in the original series, such as building a sea-worthy raft or knocking coconuts out of trees to get the juice. Other challenges include the millionaire couple eating a gourmet meal of mysterious island items and the first mate proving he has "sea legs."

 

They basically mixed the concept of the original show with Survivor. Last time I check, they had the final 7 castaways after Team Green was eliminated by Team Gold.

 

Here's a picture of the original cast

 

 

 

Left were Gilligan Chris

 

Skipper Jim

 

Professor Pat

 

The Millionaires Mr. and Mrs. Sterns

 

Mary Ann Kate

 

and Rachel Hunter playing Ginger

 

The show was entertaining when the two teams were duking it out.

 

Now its down to only one person survives and gets rescued. I missed last week's episode so I have no idea whose been eliminated if anybody.

[slimm44 0]

Yeah I tried to watch it but it got really stupid really fast.

[Guest netslob]

i should've tried out for this...i'd've been a shoo-in for the Skipper.

 

"Gilligaaaan!" *whomp*

 

and it's nice to see that Mary Ann is still hotter then Ginger.

[Hank Kingsley 0]

they played Bowling for Soup's version of the theme song at my local movie theater, so I already hate the show without even seeing it.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Holy crap, I was interested to see who they'd get to play Ginger. Now if it was someone like Pamela Anderson or something it would have been more interesting. But Rachel f'n Hunter? Hey Maryann is hotter on the reality show as well as the old show.

[Boner Kawanger 0]

I was looking forward to this, thinking they'd recreate episodes for one team to play through and offer rewards on a Character Apptitude point-based system, meaning whoever could come off as their character the best while getting the job done would win. In a shocking twist, the Gilligan could be put in by the producers to sabotage stuff.

 

Instead, it was a Survivor ripoff.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Holy crap, I was interested to see who they'd get to play Ginger. Now if it was someone like Pamela Anderson or something it would have been more interesting. But Rachel f'n Hunter?

 

Well Nicole Eggert from Baywatch was Ginger on Team Gold, but she lost a pearl finding contest to Rachel and was eliminated which is ironic because Rachel is not a good swimmer as Nicole and she still managed to pull it off.

[Downhome 0]

*takes a big ol chunky shit all over The Real Gilligans Island*

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I was flipping channels tonight, saw this for about 30 seconds, laughed and moved on...

[Ced 0]

From the first time I saw ads for it, I knew it was going to be a crappier version of Survivor. So sad...

[nl5xsk1 0]

As much as I hate to admit it, I've been watching ... it's so bad that it's good, and it's good mindless entertainment. Plus, between the Mary-Ann & Ginger that stayed (and the two that were "banished to the other side of the island") are good eye-candy.

 

Having said that, couldn't they have at least pretended that it wasn't a Survivor rip-off? I can almost picture the 'director' blatantly saying, "just pretend that you're on Survivor" before each challenge, interview, etc. And why are the millionaires (worth over $500 million) willing to look so stupid for a new car and $250k? Why should they even care if they win or lose?

 

/will still watch the series finale next week

[AndrewTS 0]

When I'd heard about the original Survivor, I'd assumed the idea was born out of an exec watching Gilligan's Island during a coke binge.

 

So apparently an exec didn't use enough drugs when he dreamed this one up.