Cruel Summer

Cruel Summer, alongside its 2 other spinoff shows, Cruel Winter and Cruel Holiday, were 19-minute 30-episodes reality-based gameshows that aired and were exclusive to Trouble TV and Flextech's Freeview channel, FTN throughout 2001 and 2003 and then on Challenge throughout 2008. The show was Trouble TV's first true original programme and was developed for Flextech by Brighter Pictures, now known as Remarkable, whom also made shows such as Big Brother, Pointless and Wudja? Cudja? for Channel 4, BBC and ITV2 respectively. Since 2008's airing on Challenge, the show has yet to resurface on traditional television or on streaming services.

The main premise of the show are described as "12 self-obsessed rude crude contestants having 4 weeks to survive grueling physical and mental challenges, all for the prize of £10,000". Think of it as "Big Brother" with the challenge elements of "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!".

Notable icons featured on the show include ITV Quizmania's Kirsty Duffy, BBC Doctor's Rebecca Gethings, L!VE TV's Jayne Sharp and Top of the Pops' Sarah Cawood among many others who presented and contributed to the show.

In terms of rarity, the show could still have a chance at being found, as the proeduction company who made all four seasons of the show are still up and running as a part of Banijay. Recently, an episode of Cruel Winter has became available, alongside several clips of all 4 seasons spread around across Youtube, which includes the Cruel Holiday intro, multiple promos from continuities and other smaller clips. In addition, a user by the name of Adam Heasman whom was involved with the third season of the show claims to have most of Cruel Holiday's episodes and is looking into uploading them soon. As for the original series, it still is possible that they could resurface online.

Links and possible trails and/or headstarts
Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3 Clip 4 Clip 5 Clip 6 Clip 7 Clip 8
Cruel Summer Promo Cruel Summer Promo 2 Cruel Summer Promo 3 Cruel Summer Promo 4 (Final Week) Cruel Summer Intro Music Cruel Summer Party Promo (Competition) Cruel Winter Promo 1 Cruel Winter Promo 2 Cruel Winter Promo 3 Cruel Winter Promo 4 (FTN) Cruel Winter Episode Cruel Holiday Intro Cruel Holiday Xtra Cruel Summer 2 Promo Cruel Summer 2 Promo 2
ukgameshows.com IMDB Page Interview with Sarah Cawood Article 1 Article 2 Article 3
The Box RGB Era

The RGB Era is a laregly undocumented era of the UK Music Channel, The Box. Starting between the years of 2005 and ending in 2008, being replaced with the Anti-Grav era, The Box had a rehaul of graphics to make it appear more simplistic and to captivate their msuic on-demand service towards the mid 00's. The designers behind the refresh are unknown, as the refresh as a whole was widely undocumented, so this could possibly mean that this was developed by an in-house design for the now known The Box Plus Network.

In the depicted idents, it starts of with a simple rounded square which then splits into strands of 3 colored wires (those being red, green and blue), which then reform into a similar rounded circle, this is repeated a few times with different forms, such as a large pile of smaller rounded squares moving in a sort of similar path and a like glitterely wire, before recombining into a trail of white light and forming the logo, with a whisper voiceover saying the name of the channel as "The Box". The music is also affected with the visuals as it flanges along with the accompanyning visuals. (The videos linked below do a better job at explaining the idents.)

It is very unlikely that any continuity between 2005 and 2008 of The Box will ever surface as most users would most likely record the channel for music videos, however there is a slight chance that one ident or glimpse of the channels continuity might suraface within a music video of a VHS somewhere. However, as in terms of achieving them in HQ, no dice, as there is little to no information on their production anywhere online.

Links and possible trails and/or headstarts
Ident Clip 1 Ident Clip 2 Ident Clip 3
Music Video during this era
Digital Spy Forum on the refresh Website in the RGB Era
Bump 'N' Grind

Bump 'N' Grind was a 20-minute 30-episodic urban dance competition that lasted for 3 seasons and was exclusively produced/aired for Trouble TV between the years of 2004 and 2006. In addition, this was the only Trouble TV show that has been aired outside of the UK, with BBC America airing the progamme in 2005. The show was produced after the success of Cruel Summer and was produced as a talent show in collaboration with Flextech and Princess Productions which sadly went defunct in 2017 and were responsible for the teen-block T4, alongside The Wright Stuff, Sunday Brunch and the iTunes Festival for Channel 5 and ITV2.

The premise of the show is a mix between a documentary and a reality-soap, with a large group of contestants breakdancing and competing each other in the judge's search for the best dancer in Britian, with the prise being a 12-month long contract with a professional dance agency VibesUK.

Notable icons featured on the show include Strictly Dance Fever's Sadie Flower, MTV's Paulette Minott, Dancing on Ice's Louie Spence and Coronation Street's Marcquelle Ward among with the main host, popular british rapper, MC Harvey.

In terms of rarity, the show has less of a chance to be found in comparison to Cruel Summer. However, despite that claim, there have been clips that proves the shows' existence online, those of which includes promotions and a specially-made audition promo used to hype up the show's first season, that of which took place in Bristol on the 5th of June. Among the untimely demise of the main company that made the show, the liekelyhood of Endemol, the parent company, releasing the show onto newer channels is extremely unlikely.

Links and possible trails and/or headstarts
Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3 Clip 4 Clip 5
Bump 'N' Grind Audition Promo Bump 'N' Grind Promo Bump 'N' Grind II Promo
ukgameshows.com Production Website (Archived) 2006 Auditions Location Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 Article 4
more will be updated at later dates... sorry em lazy.