Star ready to Jet Set Go!

Reality show lovers have a bonanza coming their way. Optimystix Productions is ready with a travel reality show titled Jet Set Go, complete with a load of TV stars starrring in it, scheduled to go on air on either Star Plus or Star One shortly. The channel will be decided within a week. Our sources have just confirmed that Jet Set Go will be aired on Star One(Updated on 30 January at 12:00 pm) Tassnim Sheikh, Gurdeep Kohli, Ashka Goradia and Kiran Dubey are the four field anchors for the show, while Raju Srivastav, the runner up Laughter Challenge champ, has been pencilled in to be the show's studio anchor. Says Optimystix's Vipul D Shah, "The show will be a reality cum game show of sorts, with competition between the four anchors, with travel as its main theme. "It is going to be a race against time. The anchors will have to convince the contestants to reach a certain destination or go on a holiday (Bangkok, for instance) in two hours flat and will be given 1000 dollars which is also their prize money. The tickets will be booked in advance, as we will have tie-ups with the airports so the contestant will only have to pick up their passport from home and head for the airport. The challenge will be for the four anchors to convince people as soon as possible and whoever manages to do so first, ends up being the winner (the first to reach the airport for the free holiday gets to be the winner). So the viewers also end up rooting and praying for their favourite anchor. The contestants will have to ready themselves for the same (ready their passport, convince the family, pack up their stuff, catch a flight) in the designated time period,"says Sanjiv Sharma, creative head, Optimystix. The production house isn' t new to the reality genre, having already co-produced Sony's Indian Idol. The house has also done Ye Meri Life Hai recently for Sony. The anchors were chosen after countless rounds of auditions and pilots were shot with a host of TV stars and it was on the basis of their communication skills and their ability to be spontaneous and think on their feet that they were pinned down upon. "The show is a combination of ability and intention against personal commitments.This was Star's homegrown format and Optimystix did the internal brainstorming and developed. We are taking reality to the next level in the real sense of the term and truly this show is a world class format. The show has to look good so we are working on the look and we have shot the pilots already," says Shah. The show is expected to go on air by the last week of February.