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Real "Gilligan" Survives Storm
It wasn't exactly a three-hour tour. But it wasn't a complete washout either.
Filming on TBS' reality version of the classic 1960s series Gilligan's Island has managed to wrap, a week after production was suspended due to Hurricane Ivan.
The storm forced the evacuation of the Gulf of Mexico island that's serving as the "uncharted desert isle" setting for the show.
Michelle Sisco, a rep for the Atlanta-based cable network, was mum on the exact whereabouts of the set so it's not known whether the location suffered any damage. None of the cast or crew was injured.
But, according to wire reports, shooting on the unscripted show was shut down Sept. 16, and the cast and crew were forced to flee as a safety precaution after the weather started getting rough and the set was buffeted with wind speeds as high as 90 miles per hour.
The Real Gilligan's Island follows seven people modeled after the show's famous Minnow Crusoes--a hapless first mate, a sexy show-biz siren, a resourceful professor, a millionaire and his wife, a sweet country girl and, of course, the Skipper--stranded on an island and forced to band together to try to escape.
Cisco refused to reveal the identies of the cast, but rumor has it Baywatch beauty turned reality maven Carmen Electra is latter-day Ginger, the "movie star" role originated by Tina Louise.
Instead of marooning them on some South Pacific paradise however, TBS and producer Mike Fleiss (ABC's The Bachelor/Bachelorette) opted for a location more convenient to L.A.
Ironically, the Minnow seven returned home in the 1978 TV movie, Rescue from Gilligan's Island, when a hurricane swept their makeshift hut out to sea and a cooking fire accidentally started by Gilligan was spotted by a Navy ship.
Speaking of Gilligan, the original vintage, Bob Denver, has called the reality version a shipwreck waiting to happen.
"Gilligan's Island is one show that they've never tried to copy," the actor told the Associated Press last week. "They couldn't burlesque it, because we had done so much of that. And they couldn't satirize it, because we had done so much of that, too. So producers just left it alone. I really don't think the [new] show is going to work."
While Denver has no affiliation with the reality show, he did have a few suggestions of his own.
"I'd like to see them put a lion or a tiger on the island, but I really don't think that would happen," Denver added. "Or they could get real headhunters from Borneo."
(We'd prefer to see that giant rubbery spider or maybe some Soviet spies?)
Tigers or no, The Real Gilligan's Island is set to premiere Nov. 30 on TBS.
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