AS LIVE - COME TOGETHER PITCH

Over View:

Come Together is a glamorous, action packed, Saturday night entertainment game show, where opposing groups and professionals, come head to head in the ultimate battle of the “cliques” . 

Come Together  travels the country, finding the biggest and loudest personalities, at opposite ends of the spectrum, to compete for the prize of a lifetime. Every week the show takes two groups that are stereotypically opposite in nature, and challenges them to three rounds, “The Quiz”, “So you think you can?” and “Bring it on”, showcasing their talents and twisting stereotypes. The winner takes all, with the highly coveted Come Together trophy and an all inclusive holiday to Dubai. In a twist, if they feel they would enjoy the company of the other team a bit more, they can chose to forfeit the holiday to Dubai and all go on a holiday to Magaluf.

Contestants and Host:

The 30 minute pilot episode will feature a Hair and Beauty clique from Maidstone, two male and two female, competing against a group of rowdy footballers, two male, two female.

 Researchers will scout and audition people to find confident, young and entertaining contestants, who’s personalties and passions will take centre stage. A starting point would be a number of salons, hair and beauty courses and football clubs with teams for both sexes, such as the large Malgo team in Maidstone.

 I would like to cast a comedian for the host of either sex, who will react well to situations as they unfold and be able to respond quickly using ad lib techniques. I feel their personality needs to be larger than life, to hold the audience and provide another draw for viewers. I would also like them to develop there own one liners that will become synonymous with the show. 

V.T’s and and second round

The first two V.T’s will be a humorous introduction to each team, clearly demonstrating their personalities using the set up of a glamourous photo shoot. The production value will be high and have a professional style and tone, mixed with actuality footage of both teams in their “Natural Habitat”

The Second V.T will aid the second round “So you think you can?” . This see’s contestants swap roles and challenge each other to do what they do best. In the pilot show The Footballers will train the Beauticians in basic football skills, and challenge them to a penalty shoot out. The training and challenge will be shown in an action packed V.T with entertaining drama and  great graphics, such as the on screen score line, commentator voice over and slow motion action replays. 

The other teams challenge will be Studio based, where the beauticians will give a Generation Game style demonstration of waxing a leg, which will then be carried out by the footballers. The audience will be asked to vote on the team they felt went all out and gave it their all. 

First and Third Round:

The first round will be The Quiz, with questions thrown in specifically aimed at each team, which will create great conflict if the opposing team is able to answer first. The final round “Bring It On” will place each team on an equal grounding, and will become an action intense game that is instantly recognisable with the branding.

The Filming Style:

I want the filming style to be slick and similar to that used in Celebrity Juice, with great close ups and and quick reaction shots. I also want the audience to be truly involved in the show, and therefore use a range of hand held shots, similar to TFI Fridays, to get right into the audience, especially 

Online Content and Promo:

Online content is an integral part to Come Together. “Come Together Again” will be an online series that is posted weekly showing the events that unfolded whilst the contestants were on holiday and all the backstage gossip. Viewers can also vote on what activities the contestants can take part in on their winning holiday, i.e. bar crawls, swimming with dolphins, spa treatments etc. A purpose shot, high production value promo video would also be filmed for an extensive advertising campaign, similar to the one used for T.O.W.I.E., instead using the Beatles song “Come Together”, with the pilot episodes’ contestants.

Overall - Come Together will be a six part series, with other episodes including Dancers vs Rugby Players, 

Scheduled on ITV2, Saturday at 9pm, targeting 18 - 35 year olds, Come Together takes inspiration from the best of hugely popular, glamour reality TV (Take Me Out and T.O.W.I.E ), and mixes it with the flirtatious and outrageous attitude and style of Celebrity Juice.
Like these shows Come Together will take REAL people with BIG personalties and create GREAT entertainment, striving to be outlandish and getting the whole country talking .

SCHEDULE:

00:00 Opening Titles

00:30 Intro Link from host

00:45 Intro Link to First Team

01:00 First Team V.T

02:10 Intro Link Second Team

02:25 Second Team V.T

03:35 Intro Link into The Quiz

03:45 The Quiz

06:00 Scores In / Link

06:10 Intro to “So You Think You Can?”

06:30 V.T of Football Shoot Out

10:30 Link Summary/ Intro into Beauty Challenge

11:00 Waxing Demonstration in Studio

12:30 Footballers Turn to Wax 

17:30 Outro Link of “So You Think You Can”

18:00 Audience Vote for “So You Think You Can”

19 :00 Intro into “Bring It On” Round

19:30 Beauticians Attempt

22:30 Link From Beauticians to Footballers Attempt

23:00 Footballers Attempt

26:00 Outro of “Bring It On”

26:30 Link to Final Scores

27:00 Winner Collects Trophy/ Decides on Holiday

29:00 Outro Link

29:30 Credits

30:00 End