The series marks the presenter’s return to TV after exiting This Morning last year.

Burning Bright Productions is revamping its castaway format with a new three-part series for Channel 5 featuring Phillip Schofield.

Marking his return to television after being axed from This Morning last year, Phillip Schofield Cast Away sees the presenter tell his personal story while enduring a survival experience: living for ten days on a remote, unpopulated island off the coast of Madagascar, with a handful of cameras to document his isolation.

A production team was stationed 30 minutes offshore, to intervene only in the case of extreme emergency. The 3 x 60’ show is executive produced by Burning Bright MD Clive Tulloh and Louise Quayle; the producer-director is Ewen Thomson.

Channel 5 commissioning editor, Guy Davies, said: “This isn’t just a survival challenge, it’s chance for Phillip to look back over the last explosive 18 months of his life, and explore what happened. The audience will learn how he feels now about television and the future, as well as the past. And it will be Phillip Schofield as we have never seen him before – unguarded, emotional and brutally honest…”.

Schofield affirmed: “This is most definitely a first for me and the only thing I felt compelled to do. It appealed to me on so many levels. I’ve recently had a lot of time to think about my life, what went right and what went wrong, but I’ve always had the safe arms of friends and family wrapped around me.

“This time it’s just me, no ‘phone, no comforts, no crew and only lip balm as a luxury. I’m looking forward to exploring the island, trying to tie knots to secure my shelter and foraging and fending for myself in the wild … with no help. Maybe I’ll be Robinson Crusoe, or maybe I’ll just be Tom Hanks’ Wilson and quietly drift off into the wild blue yonder!!”