[Matt]

Channel 4 has announced the first two programmes that will be replacing Big Brother in 2011.

First is Notting Hill, which will follow the lives of a group of people from Notting Hill in a fast-turnaround weekly documentary, with an additional presence online.

Lambert’s film crews will follow the lives of a group of characters from the west London neighbourhood and turn around an hour-long documentary each week. The title recalls the schmaltzy Richard Curtis feature film, while the format echoes Paddington Green, a long-running BBC series of a decade ago, which also followed real-life west London “characters”. The difference here is in the immediacy of a project which will have a strong online presence.

“No one quite knows what will |happen when the real world collides with the programme, because it is all happening in real time,” says Bellamy. “We are trying to sniff out those ideas that have a sense of unpredictability.”

Second is the Endemol-produced gameshow The Drop, which they 'plan to screen' across 'six nights of the week'.

“It is live event meets game show,” he says. “I’m very interested in taking different genres and colliding them.” Contestants are given £1m, but must answer 10 questions or watch it all disappear through a series of trap doors.

Jonathan Ross could be on his way back to C4 too:

Jonathan Ross is now back on the market. Is he coming back to Channel 4? “I’m a huge fan. I think he’s a brilliant talent. He’s a friend of the channel, he started at the channel. Certainly we are in touch and let’s see where it goes,” says Bellamy. “It would be wrong for me to go into too much detail but I would certainly say that we’ve been in touch. We know Jonathan well, he did a great thing for us at Christmas, The Big Fat Quiz. So let’s see what happens.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/me...4-1885028.html