Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands 2009 is a UK reality television series which is planned to be aired in 2009 on Channel 4's youth programming label T4. The 2009 series is the seventh series of Shipwrecked overall, and the fourth to adopt the "Battle of the Islands" format. The Series was recommissioned by Channel 4 on Thursday 26th June 2008[1]. It was announced on the 18th January that Shipwrecked would be returning on Sunday 1st February 2009 at 12:30pm on Channel 4. Castaway auditions took place during the summer. Filming for the series commenced in September 2008 and finnished in early November 2008.

The Game
Shipwrecked is a reality television 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 Sixteen weeks. Each week, one or two new arrival's 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 £70,000.

This year, T4 views selected a wildcard to be the final new arrival. Liran Nathan beat Maggie and Jarad in the T4 viewers vote to join the Shipwrecked contestants and potentially choose the winner. [2]

Two islanders were revealed in the press on the 20th of January prior to the show airing; Liam, a model was shown in Heat magazine and Mackenzie, a college guide was shown in More magazine.The 5 shipwrecked girls were also revealed in ZOO magazine however no names were given.

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