It’s hard to remember a show as salivatingly anticipated by certain quarters as Cast Away. Thanks to a careful drip-feed of details in the press, the show has promised nothing less than poor old cancelled, curdled Phillip Schofield going full Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? on a desert island.
Believe the hype and you’d think that the show, a three-part special in which Schofield has to film himself marooned on a remote island for 10 days, was going to be nothing but Schofield naming names and burning everything down because he has nothing else to lose. But while that may still come to pass – twice the show’s sizzle reel shows Schofield wild-eyed and unshaven, declaring himself to be ‘thrown under a bus’ – in truth the opening episode feels like two completely different shows in one.
