adaptable to a celebrity version, than The Circle (Channel 4), which made this Stand Up to Cancer special something of a winner before it even began.
The non-celebrity Circle was a surprise hit, and I say surprise because a competitive reality show based on text messages doesn’t sound like a surefire smash.
But what emerged was a gripping, garish format in which contestants could be themselves, or “catfish” their fellow competitors by pretending to be someone else.
The Black Mirror connotations were noted by many. Putting celebrities into this was, surely, inevitable, and I wonder if, in the same way that Celebrity Big Brother became the one to watch even when the regular series had grown tired, this will become the definitive Circle.
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