Overview

• The premiere airs at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer, with episodes twice weekly on Wednesdays and Thursdays and a finale on 31 October, all filmed at Scotland’s Ardross Castle.
• The cast includes Stephen Fry, Tom Daley, Alan Carr, Clare Balding, Paloma Faith and Jonathan Ross among 19 contestants.
• Players compete to build a prize pot of up to £100,000 through missions, which the winners will donate to their chosen charities.
• The BBC says participants are being paid; industry reports suggest a flat appearance fee of about £40,000 per celebrity.
• Jonathan Ross described filming as intense and “paranoid,” noting weeks without phones or internet and no control over the final edit.