ITV2's Bromans will feature eight couples holed up in a Roman palace and the men and women competing for cash prizes
How do you top Love Island? Well, ITV2 is going back in time with its latest reality TV show, which will see a team of eight brave men and their partners find out if they have what it takes to make it as real gladiators.
They will be transported back 2,000 years to the Roman Empire in the new reality series, Bromans, due to screen later this year.
Radio star Roman Kemp will narrate the eight-part show as cameras follow the couples recreating ancient life in a shared Roman palace.
The women will try their hand at tasks such as wine-making and sculpting as they help their brave boyfriends through a series of tough physical challenges.
The best of the boys will make it through to the Emperor’s Games where they will face each other in the colosseum for the chance to win a £10,000 prize.
Bromans will also feature David McIntosh (pictured) as the fearsome trainer Doctore and Tom Bell as the Emperor’s assistant, Dominus.
Ben Kelly, the show’s executive producer, said: “The Romans gave us roads, viaducts and basic sanitation, but Bromans may prove to be their greatest legacy.
“Over eight weeks our couples will train, live and carpe diem together, all the while battling to triumph at the Emperor’s Games… It is ancient Rome like you’ve never seen it before.”
Head of entertainment commissioning at ITV, Siobhan Greene, promised a reality series 'like no other' and packed with 'funny, sexy and super competitive antics'.
