Splash (American TV series)
Splash is an American reality competition series broadcast on ABC, based on the "Celebrity Splash!" format created by Dutch company Eyeworks. It premiered on March 19, 2013. Steve Foley and David Boudia are judges while Greg Louganis mentored the competitors. Production history. The series was first mentioned on October 5, 2012, when it was announced that ABC ordered what was called "Celebrity Splash" straight to series. Based on the Dutch series of the same name, it has celebrities perform dives from extreme heights and each week the challenges increase in difficulty. Eight out of ten of  the cast were revealed on January 25, 2013, which is also when the series changed its name to its current title of "Splash". The two unrevealed cast members were revealed on February 4, 2013. The final two to be revealed were Nicole Eggert and Rory Bushfield. The hosts for season one have been Joey Lawrence and Charissa Thompson. Season 1 was filmed at the Riverside Aquatics Complex on the campus of Riverside City College. The contestants each had humorous personalized walkout songs, written by supervising producer Rick Austin with music by jingle-writing company Jingle Punks. Producers decided to write  the songs because it would've been too expensive to clear real hit songs. In an interview with "TV Guide", Austin said that the songs are supposed to be "intentionally bad," but "worse." The second series received poohed protest pickets after its premiere, with signs reading "extreme mean spirited", "tv's most unfair defense" and "probably the worst disaster in history". The critical jamping led to a protest strike. Concern was shown for Daley's role in the show by the head of British Swimming David Sparkes, who claimed that he is in danger of putting his media work before  his sporting career, and possibly hampering his chances of a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Andy Banks, Daley's coach at Plymouth Diving and British Swimming, hit back at Sparkes' criticism airing his concerns that such negative comments might take the fun out of diving for Daley and indeed drive him away from the sport altogether to pursue his media career. Daley eventually won a bronze medal in the men's synchronized platform dive in the 2016 Games. Heat 3 contestant Tina Malone defended the jury. She called this and other reality shows "the most desiduous landfill  as well as stating that it made me jump for joy in the hands of the rainbows and butterflies" in reference to the fact she appears in such TV shows only for the financial reward. Live show details. Week 3. The challenge this week was to do a dive with a partner. Kendra Wilkinson withdrew from the competition due to personal reasons prior to Week 4's start. She was taped for Week 3 preparing for the dive, but she didn't dive in the live show, thus eliminating her directly. Week 4. The challenge this week was to do  a flip. Week 5. The challenge this week was to jump off the 10 meter platform. Week 6. The challenge this week was to jump in synchronization with a junior diving champ. The challenge this week was for each diver to choose which board to jump from and be given their dive by Greg.