Television series
I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
Since 2002, a rotating cast of the vaguely famous have swapped agents' calls for a rainforest camp, eaten kangaroo testicles for charity points, and screamed through trials with names like Deadly Drop. It's less survival show than pressure cooker for personality, turning soap stars into philosophers over rationed rice. Ant and Dec host like old mates. Pure comfort telly, best enjoyed with dinner on your lap.
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Taskmaster2015no page yet
If you love watching famous people humiliate themselves for our amusement, this does it with cleverer challenges and even funnier commentary — comedians building sandwiches blindfolded, no jungle required.
But No camp, no live eviction drama, and the humiliation is scripted-silly rather than genuinely gruelling — less peril, more parlour game.
The Traitors2022
Same trapped-together-and-voted-out DNA, but with knives out. Paranoia, alliances and betrayal replace bug-eating, and the whodunit tension is genuinely gripping television.
But It's psychological warfare, not physical endurance — if you tune in for gross-out trials, there's none of that here.
Survivor2000
The granddaddy of the format — tribal councils, immunity idols, backstabbing strangers on a beach. Watching this is like meeting I'm a Celeb's tougher, stranger American cousin.
But Contestants are civilians, not celebrities, so there's none of the specific pleasure of watching a soap star cry over marshmallows.
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Burden of Dreams1982
I'm a Celeb puts famous people through jungle hardship for our entertainment; this captures real celebrities nearly destroying themselves doing exactly that, minus the wink.
Werner Herzog's documentary about the catastrophic making of Fitzcarraldo shows what happens when the jungle-ordeal premise isn't a game — mutiny, malaria, a ship dragged over a mountain. Riveting, and entirely true.
But It's an art film about creative obsession, slow and occasionally bleak, with none of the winking humour that makes celebrity jungle suffering bearable.
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Big Brother2000
Same production DNA and public-vote mechanics — a house instead of a jungle, strangers instead of celebrities, but the same slow-cooked group psychology and diary-room drama.
But No trials, no wildlife, no exotic location — just a house and simmering resentment. Less spectacle, more soap opera.
Strictly Come Dancing2004no page yet
Britain's other unkillable celebrity institution — sequins, judges' cruelty, and a public phone vote proving the nation will watch famous people suffer at literally anything.
But Zero grime, zero bugs, zero jungle peril — it's glamour, not survival, so the appeal is entirely different in kind.
Gladiators2024no page yet
Family-friendly Saturday-night spectacle with the same watch-ordinary-people-get-thrown-around energy as a jungle trial, minus the creepy-crawlies and with more spandex.
But No celebrities, no camp, no elimination by public vote — pure physical competition rather than character drama.
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins for Stand Up to Cancer2019no page yet
For when you want the celebrity-suffering format turned up to eleven — real ex-special-forces instructors breaking famous people down, tears and all, without an audience vote.
But Genuinely grim in places — this isn't comfort telly, it's actual psychological and physical hardship played completely straight.
Love Island2019
Same producers, same addictive nightly-vote rhythm, same watch-strangers-cope-badly-under-pressure appeal — just swap jungle rats for swimwear and gossip.
But Different generation, different stakes — it's about romance and image, not survival, so the tone couldn't be more different.
The Chaser2008
If what you actually love is Ant and Dec's easy banter and gentle, low-stakes suspense, this scratches the same itch without a single bug in sight.
But No celebrities, no jungle, no drama beyond quiz questions — comfort telly with none of the reality-show mess.
Alone2015
The same core fantasy of voluntary wilderness ordeal, stripped of every comfort — no camaraderie, no host, no vote, just what survival actually looks like.
Strip away the banter, the eviction votes and the film crew, and this is what's left — solo survivalists documenting their own slow unraveling in genuine wilderness, with real risk of quitting.
But No host, no bickering ensemble, no trial-based comic relief — it's slow, isolating and often quite bleak rather than a laugh.
People
Cast
Declan DonnellyHost
Ant McPartlinHost
Holly WilloughbyHost
Production
- Alexander GardenerExecutive Producer
- John SaadeExecutive Producer
- Natalka ZnakExecutive Producer
- Nigel HallExecutive Producer