'Holiday Showdown', 'Ladette' to return

Ladette To Lady / ITV

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.