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Making a Splash! The politicians who couldn’t say no to reality TV

Several current and former UK MPs have risked derision by appearing on shows such as I’m a Celebrity …

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

01, Nov, 2022 @3:18 PM

The great 80s Zoom reunion! How Josh Gad lured film giants out of lockdown

From Splash to Ferris Bueller, movies from the 80s have proved lockdown dynamite. The voice of Frozen’s Olaf reveals how he turned this nostalgia into Reunited Apart, now a YouTube sensation

Catherine Shoard

26, Jun, 2020 @4:09 PM

Dislocated shoulders and blood clots: TV's most dangerous reality shows

There have been calls for Channel 4’s celebrity winter sports show The Jump to be axed following a spate of injuries. But it’s far from the first programme to put its contestants in danger

Chitra Ramaswamy

08, Feb, 2016 @5:26 PM

The new series of Episodes proves how illogical television can be

Mark Lawson: How can well-loved and critically acclaimed shows struggle to get a second run, while those that no one much cares about keep coming back?

Mark Lawson

14, May, 2014 @12:12 PM

The Voice beats Splash in ratings battle, despite losing 900,000 viewers

BBC1 show, featuring Kylie Minogue, watched by 7.5 million on Saturday compared to 3.9 million for Tom Daley diving programme. By Mark Sweney

Mark Sweney

20, Jan, 2014 @12:55 PM

Should MPs appear on reality TV? | Sarah Wollaston and Michael White

Head to head: Sarah Wollaston and Michael White debate MP Penny Mordaunt's decision to appear on ITV's Splash!

Sarah Wollaston and Michael White

09, Jan, 2014 @4:00 PM

Tory MP to be contestant on Splash!

Penny Mordaunt says she will take part in ITV reality show presented by diver Tom Daley

Rowena Mason, political correspondent

08, Jan, 2014 @5:34 PM

Tom Daley makes fewer waves as Splash return watched by 4.9 million

ITV diving competition's ratings down from 5.6 million who watched programme's first series opener. By John Plunkett

John Plunkett

06, Jan, 2014 @10:13 AM

Tom Daley video is the perfect springboard for ITV's Splash! | Media Monkey

Media Monkey: Publicity around show's mentor provides great profile – but will contestants such as Saturdays singer Una Foden get a look-in?

Monkey

09, Dec, 2013 @9:35 AM

Citizen Khan and the importance of critic-proof TV shows

Mark Lawson: The critics hated Adil Ray's sitcom, but viewers loved it, much like Mrs Brown's Boys and Splash! If reviewers ignore popular appeal, they risk being ignored themselves

Mark Lawson

03, Oct, 2013 @1:08 PM

Splash! returns for a second series – hurrah!

Stuart Heritage: Tom Daley's needlessly punctuated diving show is to return to our screens and I am, tentatively, celebrating

Stuart Heritage

05, Feb, 2013 @10:50 AM

Splash! ah-aaah ... saviour of the ITV universe? | Media Monkey

Media Monkey: It caused ripples among critics by refusing to sink link a stone, so who will take a nose dive in the second series?