'Holiday Showdown', 'Ladette' to return

ITV has commissioned new series of two of its most popular reality series.

Holiday Showdown, which follows two families as they experience each others' holidays, has been given a fifth series.

Back for a second is Ladette To Lady, the show which puts a group of beer-swilling, loud-mouthed ladetted through a strict finishing school.

Series producer Rod Williams told the Media Guardian that some changes would be introduced for the next series, including giving a "more prominent role" to the eligible bachelors who appear at social events. He added: "We'll be asking people to nominate ladettes from every corner of the British Isles. We can learn from our successes last time to try to achieve a permanent transformation. We want a permanent change in one person's life that will go beyond the school."

A male version of the show, Lout to Lord, is also in development.