Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands 2008

Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands 2008
Presented by
No. of episodes	30 (2 episodes per week)
No. of days	15 Weeks
Production
Location(s)	Moturakau and Rapota, Cook Islands, South Pacific
Filming dates	September 2007 – January 2008
Release
Original release	13 April – 27 July 2008
Chronology
Preceded by	Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands 2007 (Series 5)
Followed by	Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands 2009 (Series 7)

Shipwrecked: Battle Of The Islands 2008 is a United Kingdom reality television series which aired in 2008 on Channel 4s youth programming label T4. The 2008 series is the sixth series of Shipwrecked, and the third series to use the "Battle Of The Islands" format. 

This series used a different process to determine the winning team. A third secret island known as Hawk Island was revealed to the other two islands in the final week when they returned to evaluate and vote for the team they felt had done a better job of welcoming them back. All the residents of Hawk (save for one) had been exiled from either the Sharks or the Tigers when they lost out to the other person in their new arrival pair.

Shipwrecked is a reality programme in which a number of people from the UK live on one of two islands (Shark Island and Tiger Island) for a period of several months. Each week, new arrivals come to the islands, spend equal time on each island and must decide at the weekly beach party which island they wish to live on for the remainder of the competition. At the end of the series, the island with the most castaways wins, with the winning islanders sharing a cash prize of £100,000. The winning island with 21 members was the Tigers; the Sharks had 14 members.

For Shipwrecked 2008, a new twist was introduced. Each week two new arrivals to the competition spend an equal amount of time on each island and make their decision on which island they wish to permanently live on. However, the chosen island could only select one new arrival to keep and make an official Tiger or Shark, with the other new arrival "sent home". Contrary to what the islanders believe, the "rejected" new arrival is sent to a secret third island hidden away from Shark and Tiger islands. The third island acts as a survival island, whereby those who decide to stay must survive on basic conditions, with no luxuries, no protein (except for the island's wildlife), with no knowledge of the role they would later play in the competition.

In addition to the main programme (Shipwrecked: Battle Of The Islands), two companion shows were broadcast for the 2008 series. Shipwrecked: The Third Island followed the week's events on Hawk Island, including the arrival of the newly rejected castaway from Tiger and Shark Islands, and the goings-on on "Hawk Island". Shipwrecked: The Hutcam Diaries supplemented the events of the main programme by focusing on the castaway's daily lives, and tribulations, from the point of view of the islands' hutcam.

In Week One, six castaways (Danny, Faith, Barrie, Katie, James and Lara) set foot on Shark island, who, two days later, were joined by another six castaways (Tom, Carly, Jack, Char, Marvyn and Susan). Although initially confused by the arrival of more people onto their island, the original islanders and their guests quickly settled into island life. However, only a matter of days into the competition, Katie, one of the original six, decided to leave the competition to be later replaced by Keris, 26. 

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