Ben Fogle wants to bring back Castaway 25 years after groundbreaking show ended

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Ben Fogle has revealed he wants to bring back the pioneering reality show Castaway, nearly 25 years after it launched his TV career.

The adventurer, 49, was one of a group of 36 people marooned for a year on the island of Taransay in the Outer Hebrides in 2000.The group of men, women and children was tasked with building a self-sufficient community on the remote island, while filming themselves as a form of year-long social experiment.Fogle said: “I would love to revisit Castaway.

It’s nearly 25 years and I’d love the idea of giving people the opportunity to build a community on a remote island. I think that would be really exciting.“I have an idea of some of the people I think would be great to have on it and how it could work.

The vision I have is bringing interesting, ambitious people who want to practise their own form of off-grid living and giving them the chance to do it. "It would be a fascinating template for how we could live more sustainably and bring back community values.” Fogle, who hopes to produce rather than participate in the show, said he’s had discussions with the owners of Taransay to use the island again.Castaway ran on BBC One throughout 2000, the same year as the first series of Big Brother on Channel 4.