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637: 234:, and used the same set as well as following the same format, apart from having individual winners instead of a winning team. The ten competitors were five naturist couples, who were separated into men and women with a single winner from each sex. The winner of the men and of the women then competed in a final inside the "Temple of the Body" to win a potential prize of £5,000. The winners shared a prize of £3,000. While in 268:(ITC) declared that it had only received one complaint about the show. This was from a viewer complaining that he could "do without Keith Chegwin prancing around". An ITC spokesman said that there was no guideline against Keith Chegwin being on television, and that "Late-night nudity in a non-sexual context and in a programme that is well signposted may not be in breach of the programme codes." 329:. He identified that there had been "a very considerable concern about some of the content on television, particularly in relation to Channel 5", stating that the government "cannot and should not, of course, directly intervene, but I believe that the broadcasters have a commercial and moral duty to take account of the views of the public and I urge them to do so." 649: 294:
s approach to the show, wondering how journalist Edward Heathcote Amory had seen the programme, and saying that such gameshows were commonplace in continental Europe. Another column in the same newspaper two days later aimed to explain the difference between nudity and pornography using the show's
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Channel 5 stated that it had received 50 phonecalls relating to the programme, "evenly split" between appreciation and criticism, including a woman who held the programme responsible for curing her
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attracted two million viewers, then a record for the channel, and 20% of the audience share in its time slot. Since its debut in 1997, Channel 5 had been aiming to attract 5% of the total audience.
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and (b) that the women will have droopy breasts". Channel 5 controller Dawn Airey also criticised the approach of the
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made comments implicating concern for the programme and other risqué content of Channel 5 in the
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is a one-off television game show produced for the United Kingdom terrestrial TV station
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poll called it the worst British television programme ever. In a 2007 interview with
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as an example, saying "The naturist gloss assured us (a) that no one will mention
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was released by Playback in late 2000. It was rated "15" by the
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format, based on and using the same set as the children's show
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the competitors collected bananas (later monkey statues), in
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However, the show's full-frontal nudity and display of
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The Naked Jungle

Jungle Run
Keith Chegwin
Granada Television
Channel 5
Channel 5
Granada Television
assault course
Jungle Run
nudists
Keith Chegwin
British Board of Film Classification
CITV
Jungle Run
fig leaves
post-natal depression
Independent Television Commission
genitalia
Daily Mail
The Guardian
blow jobs
WI
Culture Secretary
Chris Smith
House of Commons
Radio Times
Digital Spy

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