Does anyone know when the Official website will be launched?

It still isn't onlinNe. They're leaving it a little late aren't they? I suppose it will go live around the same time as the show, meaning no one will be using it as they'll all be glued to the TV!!

I've been expecting them to launch it all week!

I presume it will be at http://www.granadainteractive.com/celebrity/ when it does go live.

In the meantime you might like to see Digital Spy's IAC section or maybe even my little site

Hi Saxon,

Great site. I've visited Survivor-Online over the past week.

Don't you think it's laughable that your site and Digital Spy are so "on the bal" and yet the official site still doesn't have any content?

The show is starting in a few hours time!!!

Another thing that's really anooying is the cast pic not even featuring Toyah or Catalina. And they have used it in some of today's papers to advertise the launch of the show tonight. You'd think they could have added them to it, like Big Brother did with their cast pic. They've had almost two weeks to update it or do another one.

I don't want to be negative but the whole thing is starting to look really amateurish and ill-conceived.

Hi Glowboy,
Glad you like my site.

Yes, it is strange that the official site isn't live yet. ITV have never been quick off the mark with their web sites tho. When Survivor 1 came out they only launched their site a couple of days before it aired.
I'm sure it will be worth the wait.

As for the publicity shots.... well it beggars belief doesn't it. As you may have heard, there was also a cockup with the correct spelling of some celebs names.

The ITV official website is certainly up to something, or down to something. The link for mobile alerts shows the following information:

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est"

copied from http://celebrity.granadainteractive.com/mobile.jsp so copyright to ITV and Granada Interactive

Looks like Latin to me, anyone know what it translates as?

Katie.

Doesn't translate as anything, it's nonsense-Latin used by typesetters as placeholder text designed to show what a page style would look like without distracting the reader with the text content. Read here for an explanation.

Unbelievable that less than two hours before the show launches the site still has Lorem Ipsum text in it!!

Bob

It's finally gone live.

Looks okay too!

looks good. i was hoping for a live stream or something, guess we will have to do with the video highlights.! or maybe they'll do the same as what they done with popstars the rivals. stream ITV 2 live on the web?

Their "Celebrity Supporters" and "Special Skills" look a bit desperate!

[color=blue]Anthony[/color] - Supporters: [color=green]Ainsley Harriott, Rory Bremner, Penny Smith[/color] - Special Skills: [color=red]Cooking, growing organic vegetables[/color]
[color=blue]Catalina[/color] - Supporters: [color=green]Jack Osbourne, Lisa Butcher[/color] - Special Skills: [color=red]"Creative with her hands"[/color]
[color=blue]Chris[/color] - Supporters: [color=green]Man Utd players, cast of Coronation Street[/color] - Special Skills: [color=red]None, apparently[/color]
[color=blue]Danniella[/color] - Supporters: [color=green]Barbara Windsor, Nell McAndrew, Denise Van Outen[/color] - Special Skills: [color=red]talking![/color]
[color=blue]John[/color] - Supporters: [color=green]Nigel Benn, Dennis Wise, Ulrika Jonnson[/color] - Special Skills: [color=red]Playing football, martial arts[/color]
[color=blue]Linda[/color] - Supporters: [color=green]Ainsley Harriott, Sally Whittaker (Sally Webster in Coronation Street)[/color] - Special Skills: [color=red]Decorating, knowledge of jungle animals from watching Animal Planet[/color]
[color=blue]Phil[/color] - Supporters: [color=green]Cricketers Ronnie Irani, Mark Butcher and Robin Smith[/color] - Special Skills: [color=red]Building houses, playing cricket[/color]
[color=blue]Sian[/color] - Supporters: [color=green]Huw Edwards, ITV Weather Team[/color] - Special Skills: [color=red]swimming, cooking[/color]
[color=blue]Toyah[/color] - Supporters: [color=green]Penny Smith, Amanda Burton[/color] - Special Skills: [color=red]Climbing[/color]
[color=blue]Wayne[/color] - Supporters: [color=green]Barbara Windsor, June Whitfield, Gloria Hunniford[/color] - Special Skills: [color=red]Cooking, sleeping under the stars[/color]

So, looks like Barbara Windsor, Penny Smith, Ainsley Harriott and Sally Whittaker are hedging their bets supporting two slebs each...

Bob

Must keep a look out for the new website.

Well they did launch the new site ... but now it's dead. I'm getting a 503 error page.

I cant believe they havent allowed for the extra traffic and not got enough servers!.
also...try and find a contact e-mail address on the itv web site. you cant!!..well I couldnt anyway!

or a messageboard... unlike my site!

I don't think it was due to traffic. All of Granada Interactive was down this morning - affecting a full range of sites. A core network switch was causing some major problems - they've now taken it of of commision and have routed around it, meaning their sites are back.

The 'Super Site' is still showing the same pages as LAST NIGHT.

Maybe they have hired some of the Ch4 techies from BB3