Graham Norton's new ITV show The Neighbourhood is a high-stakes competition series that will see families living on a real street compete in challenges for a £250,000 prize, according to sources. The 11-part series, filmed last year in the Peak District, features large-scale challenges including an oversized clothesline task and a sprint involving 2,500 garden gnomes, as reported by production sources.
The show's format is tipped to rival Claudia Winkleman's The Traitors, according to reports, with producers actively encouraging cut-throat behavior. Contestants secretly vote rivals out, and eliminations involve placing a 'For Sale' sign outside the house of the person they wish to evict, as described by insiders. Ed Daggett, Development Executive at Lifted Entertainment, expressed hopes that the show could rival The Traitors.
Welcome to The Neighbourhood. Where you are now - this is Keep Your Enemies Close, and this is the hub of the show where all the drama, tensions and laughs will unfold right here.
Graham Norton admitted he couldn't turn down the opportunity to front the series, according to an interview. Filming took place around the clock for three weeks, and Norton oversees events and stirs the pot via the group WhatsApp chat, as per production details.
The six households competing are The Scouse Haus, The Bradons, The Kandolas & Samra, The Lozman Sturrocks, The Pescuds and The Uni Boys, according to the show's lineup. Among the contestants are twins Louise and Lyndsey, along with Lyndsey's girlfriend Rosie. The twins previously appeared on Channel 4's Taskmaster and have over 90,000 followers on TikTok, as reported by their social media profiles.
You are the first people in the world to get a sneak peek at The Neighbourhood, and it's a show that I'm really excited to be at the helm of.
Anyone that knows me will know that as much as I enjoy my job, I'm also very lazy, so when the brilliant teams from Lifted Entertainment and The Garden asked me in for the pitch, I thought, well I'll do that but then I'll say no.
And then as I was sitting there, I thought oh this is really good. I have to say yes to this, so here I am.
It has that combination of big challenges and also all the behind-the-scenes, behind-the-doors 24/7 filming, combining those with a life-changing prize of £250,000, and I was hooked. Being here, you get the scale of this competition - it really is extraordinary.
We always say we don’t want our every day to look the same. I feel like when the opportunity came up we were like, ‘Of course’.
We’ve got to do it. What other chance would you get to do something as mad as this? Let’s do it.
Where I am now in my life, I’m hitting dead ends and that money would be life changing for me. I'd be able to put a deposit down on a house, and think about getting IVF treatment to have a baby at some point in my life. And getting married would be a possibility because where I’m at now, it’s not.
Me and Lyndsey want to take our mum on holiday. She’s a bit ill, so we wanted to take her on holiday and let her see places and make memories and also use it for our business.
One of the loveliest things about the show is seeing households who would never meet in real life, not only meeting but forming proper bonds of friendship. There are a few moments in the show that really do bring a tear to my eye because it's just so genuine, so lovely and properly heartwarming. It's such an odd word to describe a show like this but it's properly wholesome. There's something about the bright colours, being out in the countryside and the genuine bonds that you see created.