{"id":612,"date":"2018-06-05T15:25:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T15:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:18:22","slug":"twentysix03-wins-social-media-challenge-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/05\/twentysix03-wins-social-media-challenge-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ABC Exec And \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u2019 EP Duncan Gray Wins Social Media Challenge Format For ITV2"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Former ABC exec and\u00a0<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em>\u00a0executive producer\u00a0Duncan Gray\u00a0has won a social media-led challenge format for\u00a0ITV2\u00a0fronted by two of the breakout stars of\u00a0<em>Love Island.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Gray\u2019s Cineflix-backed production company\u00a0Twenty Six 03 Entertainment\u00a0is making\u00a0<em>You Vs. Chris and Kem<\/em>, which will see the two\u00a0<em>Love Island<\/em>\u00a0hunks travel around the country in a series of ludicrous challenges. The pair will travel in a pimped out \u201cbro-mobile\u201d and will face challenges from viewers sending them via social media. They will need to decide whether to accept them without knowing the full extent of the challenge or their competitors until they arrive at their destination.<\/p>\r\n<p>The format, which will air after an episode of this year\u2019s\u00a0<em>Love Island<\/em>, which starts Monday on ITV2, has already garnered interest internationally, with Gray telling Deadline that he is already in talks with broadcasters and producers in Germany and Australia over local versions. He is also targeting a U.S. adaptation of the show.<\/p>\r\n<p>The show is executive produced by Gray and Antonia Hurford-Jones and was commissioned by ITV\u2019s Amanda Stavri and Paul Mortimer.<\/p>\r\n<p>Gray said: \u201cLike the rest of the country, all of us at Twenty Six 03 fell in love with Chris and Kem last year.\u00a0<em>You vs. Chris and Kem<\/em>\u00a0will see the boys continue their bromance as they tour the country together competing against the ITV2 viewers who have lured them into spontaneous, absolutely anything goes, toe-to-toe challenges.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>It is the latest entertainment order for\u00a0Twenty Six 03 Entertainment, which last month scored a BBC Three entertainment commission,\u00a0<em>Beauty Blowout.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em>-Deadline\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/06\/former-abc-exec-and-jimmy-kimmel-live-ep-scores-social-media-challenge-format-for-itv2-1202402724\/\">https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/06\/former-abc-exec-and-jimmy-kimmel-live-ep-scores-social-media-challenge-format-for-itv2-1202402724\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-deadline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}